This ^^ is a preview of the November Vogue. Kate Winslet is the cover girl, probably because she’s promoting… Labor Day? Maybe? I just checked though and while Labor Day is making the film festival rounds through the fall, it doesn’t even get a limited release date until Christmas. Still, that’s the only thing she’s got coming out in the next six months. I guess Anna Wintour wanted Kate because of the changes in her personal life too – Kate got married and got pregnant over the past year, and she’s probably due in the next few months.
Until Vogue releases their editorial and interview, we’ll just have to make do with this interview which was making the rounds last week (sorry I’m just getting to it now). Kate has been facing some criticism for her life choices, especially with the notoriously snarky British press. A columnist for The Telegraph apparently shaded Kate pretty hard for having “three babies by three fathers.” Which is true, Kate is in the midst of gestating her third child with her third husband. So I guess Kate was responding to those criticisms in this interview:
Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet feels single mothers have a tough time raising children as society judges them.
“Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this,” Winslet told TimeOut magazine.
“My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years. And I know the true meaning of getting by the skin of my teeth, I do. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve got money or you haven’t, whether you’re famous or not. This is the case for all women actually, you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.”
The 37-year-old British actress, who is already mother to daughter Mia from her first marriage to Jim Threapleton and son Joe from her second marriage to Sam Mendes, is expecting her third child, the first with husband Ned Rocknroll.
“I’m a bit older, and certainly my body doesn’t feel like I have been pregnant in ten years. I’ve been more active and healthier, I think. I know more about how to take care of myself now” she said.
“I think that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade. I just know more, I think, now than I did then. I’ve been very lucky – a bit tired and a bit sick at the beginning but nothing major at all.”
[From TimeOut via IB Times]
Eh. I mean, “society” does judge single mothers, still, to this day. If you don’t believe me, listen to half of all the politicians in America. Even Mitt Romney did some single-mother bashing during one of the presidential debates. So, she has a point about “judgmental” society. But! I think Kate makes the wrong turn when she makes it all about herself and her struggles. “I know the true meaning of getting by the skin of my teeth, I do.” Really though? I mean, do you really want to look at a single mother making minimum wage with no access to affordable day-care or pre-K for her kids and tell her “yes, I have been through that, we are the same”? Her message isn’t actively bad or offensive, she just seems… out of touch. I suppose the message is that all ladies are the same and we all have our struggles and we all have to carry on, but objectively, some ladies have more burdens than others.
Here are some new pics of Kate at the BFI London Film Festival photocall for Labor Day. Her face definitely looks “softer” these days. Less Botox-y.
Photos courtesy of Fashion Scans Remastered, WENN.
