I’ve been wondering aloud about Kate Winslet’s very alleged tweaking for years now. For what it’s worth, Kate does look less “worked on” these days, but I still believe she had some eye work done several years ago and it took a while to “settle.” Why bring this up yet again? Because Winslet has returned to one of her favorite subjects: how natural she is and how difficult it was to grow up as a beautiful white woman in England. Don’t get me wrong, we all have difficulties and struggles. It’s just that Kate seems a bit heavy-handed with the “woe is me” act. Kate appeared on Running Wild with Bear Grylls and here are some assorted quotes:
Body image: “When I grew up, I never heard positive reinforcement about body image from any female in my life. I only heard negatives. That’s very damaging, because then you’re programmed as a young woman to immediately scrutinize yourself and how you look.”
What she tells her 14-year-old daughter Mia: “I stand in front of the mirror and say to Mia, ‘We are so lucky we have a shape. We’re so lucky we’re curvy. We’re so lucky we’ve got good bums.’ And she’ll say, ‘Mommy, I know, thank God.’”
She was bullied: “I was bullied at school. I was chubby, always had big feet the wrong shoes, bad hair. There was one girl who was particularly horrible to me. [Later], she was working on a beauty counter in a department store…I went up to her and said ‘I want to thank you for being such a bitch because it made me a lot stronger’.”
Kate began acting when she was still a teenager and while she wasn’t rail-thin, she was perfectly beautiful with a very attractive figure and she was widely praised and applauded for both her beauty and her figure. So… I’m not really understanding how she can claim that she never got positive reinforcement from anyone when she was younger? I also feel like it’s the wrong message to send that “curves are good/lucky/better” and everything else is bad/unlucky/worse. Shouldn’t the message be self-love and body acceptance no matter what, skinny or curvy or big-bootied or small-busted or whatever? To just own who you are without comparing and contrasting?
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