What you see is what you get with Kate Winslet .
It’s a refreshing change in Hollywood, as the 46-year-old has no filter when it comes to her looks and personality.
She’s been dishing out real for decades, starting all the way back to her breakout film, Titanic (which, she had to beg to be a part of BTW).
By working hard and playing by her own rules, she went from being plucked from obscurity to one of Hollywood’s leading ladies.
Even now as a middle-aged woman who’s still in the public eye, she refuses touch-ups and embraces the wrinkles on her face and the pouch in her belly.
Here, we’re taking a look back at this iconic actress’s journey through Hollywood as an imperfect woman.
Kate’s quest for self-love started all the way back when she was a child.
Sadly, the star was picked on for her weight and her aspirations for wanting to be an actress (look who’s laughing now).
“They called me Blubber. They made fun of me because I wanted to be an actress,” she said at a We Day U.K. talk.
“They would lock me in a closet. They laughed at me,” she added . But just like she held on tight to that door on Titanic , Kate refused to give up.
“I didn’t isolate myself or quit, I ignored the negative comments. I believed in myself.”
“I chose to rise above it all, and I had to work very hard. You have to be indestructible to do what you love and believe you are worth it. That’s the hardest part of it all.”
Yeah, we’re going to need a Ted Talk from her.
The actress continued to fight and work hard to make her acting dreams come true.
For her breakout role in Titanic , she had to beg director James Cameron to cast her as Rose.
He was hesitant to cast essentially a nobody in a big-budget film.
She admitted in a 2016 interview that she got Cameron’s number from his agent and called him directly.
“‘I just have to do this, and you are really mad if you don’t cast me,’” she recalled. Cameron agreed to let her do the screen test.
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Afterward, she sent Cameron a banquet of roses with the note, “from your Rose” to really seal the deal.
The rest, as they say, is history. Now, as a Hollywood legend, Kate is still playing by her own rules.
Kate knows that she doesn’t have the “ideal” Hollywood body, and she’s okay with that.
While starring as Mare Sheehan on the hit HBO crime drama, ‘Mare of Easttown,’ Kate refused to be photoshopped.
When director Craig Zobel, tried to cut “a bulgy bit of belly” from her sex scene, she responded , “Don’t you dare!”
Her goal was for audiences to see an unfiltered middle-aged woman.
“She’s a fully functioning, flawed woman,” she told the ‘New York Times.’
“With a body and a face that moves in a way that is synonymous with her age and her life and where she comes from. I think we’re starved of that a bit,” she concluded .
After being scrutinized by the media for her curves for years, Kate decided to do something about it.
She teamed up with Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz to form the British League for Anti-Cosmetic Surgery.
They also made sure that magazines and brands didn’t photoshop their wrinkles.
By being a pioneer of change, Kate is working to change Hollywood from the inside out.
This benefits young actresses, much like her own daughter, Mia, who she has taught all about self-love.
“I stand in front of the mirror and tell Mia: ’We are very lucky to have a figure like this. We’re so lucky to have curves,'” she told NBC’s Running Wild with Bear Grylls. ” And she says, ’Mommy, I know, thank God.’”
