Kate Concerned About Young Starlets
April 29, 2009
The ‘Revolutionary Road’ star is relieved she isn’t starting out as an actress now because of the huge pressures and criticisms young starlets like 24-year-old Keira have to face.
Kate, 33, said: “It’s really, really tough. It’s like, ‘She’s fat, she’s thin, she’s married, she’s divorced.’ I had all that and bouncing back is f***ing hard. I’m really, really happy I’m not a younger actor or actress working now because they have to run before they can walk.”
The Oscar-winning actress - who raises two children, Mia, eight, and Joe, five, with her director husband Sam Mendes - insists she is enjoying getting older and is happy her looks are maturing.
She added in an interview with Marie Claire magazine: “I don’t mind the way I’m ageing. I think I look my age, and that’s fine.
“I don’t think I look younger than 33 and I don’t think I look particularly older than 33. I think I’m sort of holding it together.”
But Kate has not always been so happy with her appearance, and admits her formative years were made hard by bullies.
She explained: “I was bullied for being chubby. Where are they now!
“I had, ‘No one will ever fancy me!’ well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not!
“I do think it’s important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don’t really look like that. In films I might look glamorous, but I’ve been in hair and make-up for two hours, someone’s been lighting a scene for three hours.”
Source: Bang Media
Kate Blasts Middle Class Tag
KATE WINSLET has hit out at critics who assume she had a privileged childhood - insisting her family was so poor she grew up wearing second-hand shoes.
The Titanic star is adamant her famously well-spoken accent is not an indication of a luxurious upbringing.
And she is insists her parents struggled to make ends meet - taking her on cheap vacations in the south-west of England and giving her 15 cents (10p) a week pocket money.
She tells Britain’s Marie Claire magazine, “People think I’m lying… My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a Tarmac firm, as a van driver. He’d sell Christmas trees. Anything. That was my dad.
“We had these dreadful second-hand cars that would always die a death, or we’d go on holiday to Cornwall, come back and it would have been nicked (stolen). It’s like a Joe Orton farce, my family. Honestly, it was hand-me-down shoes and 10p pocket money on a Saturday that didn’t go up until I was 11.”
Source: WENN
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