Kate Winslet has received a lot of press over the years, mostly good, for her willingness to take off her clothes for a role. And she always seems so natural when she’s naked on screen. She’s not afraid to look blotchy when she’s crying or to flash her cellulite. She owns her body, and even as she is beginning to age, she still has a beautiful and natural figure that’s hard to ignore. After winning two Golden Globes for best actress in The Reader and Revolutionary Road, Oprah complimented Kate on her natural breasts.
“I love the fact that you have real breasts, ’cause in all the breast scenes, your breasts do what real breasts do,” she said Tuesday on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
“There’s that wonderful thing, you know, if you are a woman, you’re lying on your back, your breasts they go to – they part – but if you look at a woman with not real breasts, their breasts are sticking straight up,” she told the actress, who won two Golden Globes Sunday. “That’s how you know. God bless your real breasts!”
[from Us]
When filming The Reader, Kate refused to use a body double and took a very healthy attitude to baring her body:
The British actress appears naked in her new film The Reader but refused to use a body double or lose weight for the scenes, wanting a completely realistic look for her character.
Describing her own body, Kate admits to having aged, but maintains she is proud of her flawed physique, saying: “Here we go, I have a crumble baby belly, boobs are worse for wear after two kids… I’m doing all right. I’m 33. I don’t look in the mirror and go, ‘Oh, I look fantastic!’ Of course I don’t.
“Nobody is perfect. I just don’t believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, ‘This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!’ I’m proud of that.”
[from Sydney Morning Herald]
Halle Berry also recently complimented Kate’s body, saying that she wishes she, too, had the guts to get naked on screen more often. Although it’s a bit hard to feel sorry for Halle Berry’s body issues, Kate does offer an alternative to the typical Hollywood look. After having children, most actresses choose to cover up for their roles, go crazy about losing their baby weight, and hire personal trainers. If the tabloids are to be believed, having a baby shouldn’t change your body and if you don’t get down to pre-baby weight immediately, it means that you’re just not trying hard enough. Kate not only speaks out about these standards, but practices what she preaches. It’s hard to imagine the movie industry becoming less body-conscious overnight, but as long as Kate is around, there’s at least one star who has a healthy attitude about weight and body image. Let’s hope she lets it all hang out more often.
Kate Winslet is shown on 1/11/09 at the Golden Globes with her husband, Sam Mendes, and co-star, Leonardi DiCaprio. Credit: WENN
Oh Oprah, spare us your icky, cloying commentary.
From her quotes, she sounds down to earth and realistic. Kate = class act.
On a side note, I giggled when I saw where CB posted this under; Body image, Boobs….
Nice to see a real woman in Hollywood and able to project on screen what real women look like – what happens to our bodies after kids and age!! Another reason to really like her.
I’m so tired of these plastic, air-brushed women that the media shoves in our faces!!
Hooray for real boobies!
I quite like Kate Winslet, and am all for women being ‘au naturel,’ as opposed to those that suffer the social disease called ‘enhancement,’ BUT, her Golden Globe acceptance speech/sleight made her appear bitchy/ditzy…no one forgets Angie’s name, even those who feel lukewarm about her
Santacruz I so agree. She was unwatchable in her acceptance speeches. Lovely woman, though and a great actress, no doubt about it. I hope that she watches a replay of the Golden Globes and works on her Oscar (TM) speech a bit.
I love me some Kate Winslet. For all the reasons stated.
Finally I have something in common with Oprah.
Whom I don’t love. For all the reasons I don’t have to state.
I posted here in another thread about a week ago. It is nude scenes from this movie and I have to say, one of her breasts is so much larger than the other one. This is really where Winslet is to be admired. Not only are they real but obviously flawed. Go Kate!
People should get praised for these kinda things more often.
i want her boobs (on my body). lol i realize that could be taken two different ways…
how about…i hope my boobs look like that when im her age!
I hate fake boobs. I don’t even wanna see em. And I’m speaking as someone who enjoys boobs. Fake boobs, to me, are not boobs. They are dead to me.
Hooray for celebrating real woman boobs and the sexy things they do.
(I was kinda pissed clicking on this post because I was sure it was going to be Oprah being all like “ooo your boobs are so perky, how do you do it???” Like having perky boobs is some kind of accomplishment that shows your character. Thanks for surprising me Celebitchy).
I loved her speeches, she was rambly and I loved that. I believe people in total disbelief DO forget people’s names. I’ve seen people forget their own spouses names. Angie is not on the tip of everyone’s tongue, however they may feel about her.
You know, for as many people I hear complaining about fake boobs being “disgusting” and “horrible”, I’ve noticed how pornographic movies and flesh magazines still have consumers.
Let’s not be heroic liars here. It’s okay to have real tits if they don’t sag, but if they happen to sag, god help you.
Seriously, give me a break. Some of you are so self-righteous about plastic surgery that it’s sickening.
I hate to break it to the “OMG, she’s so natural” crowd, but Kate’s nose is courtesy of the plastic surgeon. That being said she looks gorgeous but I’m a little sick of the anti-Hollywood hypocrisy that she engages in. She is as committed to the system as any other actor and she is working overtime for that Oscar. But, if I was Kate and I had to watch a hack like Hilary Swank collect an Oscar, twice, I’d be working it too.
It’s great to see someone who is not uptight about this type of thing. Instead she was really funny.
…is it being self righteous or just lamenting the time when women could be the shape that nature made them without being made to feel the need to be surgically enhanced to fit a very prevalent modern ideal…today’s focus on youth and beauty is a sickness. How can a society grow with this as its focus?
Some of us are more affected by it than others, and would like to not be criticized for wanting to fix things that we don’t like.
We focus on youth and beauty and yet I don’t see anyone stopping any time soon. Basically, if you’re not naturally thin, large chested, or curvaceous, you’re ugly.
It’s very frustrating for me when I get these conflicting messages: “Be happy with yourself!” “Embrace your beauty, blah blah blah” when your features as a whole represent physical ugliness as perpetuated by the media. It’s self-righteous because a lot of men and women alike think they’re “above” others for not getting or wanting plastic surgery.
I mean, good for Kate Winslet, but I really do feel resentful when people criticise the option of plastic surgery.
Christina X: I’m pretty sure I said fake boobs are gross…TO ME. Clearly there is a huge market for fake boobs out there which has nothing to do with me. You know what? Get fake boobs. I won’t stop ya. But no one can tell me that sh*t is attractive. TO ME.
And when did I say anything about saggy boobs? Saggy, perky, whatever. More the merrier.
What is wrong with you people?!
She is not being praised for her acting or talent, but for getting naked in order to get roles and get awards.
She is not a stripper, and she got some of these roles because other women refused to get attention by reducing themself to marketing through stripping.
As for being airbrushed and dieting and getting the LA bleached blond and fake tan- Winslet is guilty as so many other LA women, but she is more sanctimonious and pretentious, despite the fact that she does exactly the same things.
I don’t mind her getting naked, but hyprocrisy and being pretentious about what you do is inexcusable.
Rebecca, who said I was singling you out?
It’s just hard to believe that every single person has something negative to say about getting your boobs done, and yet it’s so emphasized by our society to have large, perky boobs.
I just find it very difficult to believe that everyone on the planet has something negative to say about plastic surgery, especially when you’re a young woman and your outside appearance matters.
I know I complain about my body image on Celebitchy a lot, but it’s not like I woke up one day and decided I was going to start hating my body one day. I have since I was eight years old, and every year it gets worse, and the social contradictions are very frustrating to me. I don’t think it’s “weak” of me to fix the things about myself that I dislike.
Maybe I am, in an idealistic sense, kind of “weak” for wanting to conform to conventionally attractive standards and feeling jealous more than regularly, but I know that the world is not becoming any less extrinsic by the second.
I’m just defending why I think that cosmetic surgery shouldn’t be condemned by the public the way it is, and I doubt that half of these people who have to comment on how it’s “superficial” don’t have anything negative to say about mainstream beauties, surgically enhanced fantasy women.
I think Kate Winslet means well, but she’s so idealistic that it makes her ignorant.
…when discussing/or providing a critique of surgical enhancement, it all comes down to context…of course at times there is a need for this type of surgery, but it has gone beyond this…it is an epidemic…it’s quite frightening that so many strive for such a generic look
I concur, her boobs are AWESOME.