Kate Winslet Slams Cosmetic Procedures, Weight Loss Drugs in Candid Interview: 'It Upsets Me So Much'
Kate Winslet is opening up about beauty standards and cosmetic procedures portrayed in the media.
The 50-year-old Titanic alum got candid in a new interview with The Sunday Times, out now.
During the conversation, she reflected on how fame affected her at an early age.
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“I wasn’t ready to be a famous actress. I was so young, but I felt so invaded. Nothing was nice. People climbed into my garden. I couldn’t go to a shop. I was followed when I had a baby in the back of the car on my way to the pediatrician. It is abnormal and, to my dad, I was still that little girl he helped clean out the rabbit hutch every Saturday afternoon,” she reflected on her upbringing.
As a result of media bullying about her appearance and overly invasive analysis of her body, she encouraged women to embrace themselves as they are.
“But I feel like nobody cares any more. No one’s listening because they’ve become obsessed with chasing an idea of perfection to get more likes on Instagram. It upsets me so much,” she explained.
“Oh, it’s terrifying. I think no, not you! Why?” she says of seeing women getting procedures done to their face.
“It is devastating. If a person’s self-esteem is so bound up in how they look it’s frightening. And it’s puzzling because I have moments when I think it’s better, when I look at actresses at events dressed how they want, whichever shape — but then so many people are on weight-loss drugs. It’s so varied. Some are making choices to be themselves, others do everything they can to not be themselves. And do they know what they are putting in? The disregard for one’s health is terrifying. It bothers me now more than ever. It is f–king chaos out there.”
Kate said she felt angered by “people who save up for Botox or the s–t they put in their lips,” noting she “hasn’t got anything in it” while scrunching up her own face in the interview as proof.
“My favorite thing is when your hands get old. That’s life, in your hands. Some of the most beautiful women I know are over 70 and what upsets me is that young women have no concept of what being beautiful actually is.”
She points out Helen Mirren, Toni Collette, Andrea Riseborough, and Avatar co-star Sigourney Weaver as women who are like her, and “have to keep being real.”
Kate also cited a young woman she recently saw on a BBC News article.
“She looked like a cartoon. You do not actually know what that person looks like — from the eyebrows to mouth to lashes to hair, that young woman is scared to be herself. What idea of perfection are people aspiring to? I blame social media and its effect on mental health.”
For the full story, head to TheTimes.com.
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