Kate Winslet Is Not a Botox Fan
Kate Winslet would like everyone to keep their faces au naturel. In an interview with the Sunday Times over the weekend, the actress shared her candid opinions on injectables, weight-loss drugs, and the crisis of self-esteem that she sees as the result of being able to tweak your appearance any which way.
Winslet, who has been a longtime advocate for body positivity after getting body-shamed amid Titanic’s success, said people don’t want to hear about celebrating one’s body anymore. “No one’s listening because they’ve become obsessed with chasing an idea of perfection to get more likes on Instagram,” Winslet said in the interview. “It upsets me so much.”
The actress said sometimes she feels as if the world is more accepting of different body types and other times the pendulum seems to be swinging in the opposite direction. “I look at actresses at events dressed how they want, whichever shape,” she said. “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.” She added, “It’s fucking chaos out there.”
While Winslet told the Times that she “hasn’t got anything” in her face, she noted that it’s not even “all the fucking actresses” injecting that she takes issue with. What really bothers her are the normal people who “save up for Botox or the shit they put in their lips,” she said.
“We have to keep being real,” Winslet implored, citing aging hands as one of the things she loves seeing the most. “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.”
So which beautiful women are aging naturally, according to Winslet? She mentioned Helen Mirren, Toni Collette, Andrea Riseborough, and Sigourney Weaver as some of the women keeping it real in her industry. It is probably worth mentioning that those first three are all in her upcoming directorial debut, Goodbye June, and Weaver is her co-star in the Avatar franchise, the third installment of which comes out in a couple of weeks. Who says you can’t slip in a little self-promo while critiquing the system?
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