Kate Winslet About Herself and Family

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Living as a kid never have been easy. With that bullying things, jealousy,and competition between kids. Sometimes all of those childhood experiences bring pain and left a scar, it carried by until they grown up. It could end up bad, or much better, end up good.

Just like what Kate Winslet had been through. She was bulled as a child because she was chubby. She even got a nicknamed Blubber. And the Oscar winning British actress even still feels like the fat schoolgirl was. She says to MarieClaire Magazine

“I was the girl that people would always say, ‘Ah, it’s such a shame, because you’ve got such a pretty face.'”

“I had that well into my teens,” a mom of two continues, adding, “Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don’t mind the way I’m ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that’s fine.”

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.”

Kate, who is married with director Sam Mendes, and have son Joe, 5, and her daughter Mia, 8  says that the intense Hollywood spotlight can be “crushing.”

The 33-year-old  star says she thinks it’s important to reveal the truth behind the myth of Hollywood perfection, which can set an impossible standard. She’s criticized magazines for airbrushing photos of her in the past, and threatened to sue Grazia in 2007 over false claims that she was visiting a “diet doctor” in a desperate effort to slim down.

“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. With the nudity in The Reader, for example, even I was like, ‘Damn, I look good.’ It was a bit of body make-up. I don’t believe in pretending those things don’t go on.”

Looking back, she likens her early life to a bleak comedy. “It’s like a [macabre playwright] Joe Orton farce, my family,” she further says, “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 [stolen].”

Compare to her family life today is much different, and divided between homes in New York and Windsor, England.

“We’re just there for each other,” she says of being married to Mendes (her Revolutionary Road director), though when it comes to running the household, Winslet says, “I really rule the roost, I absolutely steer the ship. Constantly making checklists; you know, library books have to go in on Friday, make sure that one day a week they’re [the children] not having bread for lunch.”

Her duties also include caring for her parents. “Mum would hate this if she read it, but our parents are getting on now,” reveals the dutiful daughter. “Sam said to me not long ago that we really need to try to find a way to be more consistently in England. I said, ‘Well, at the point our parents really need us to be around, of course we’ll be there.’ And he said, ‘Darling, that’s now.’ ”

I like to read a celebrity like Kate whom know what she feel and can handle the bad sector around her and take control herself, family and parents. Such a sweet and responsible mom,wife and daughter. I salut to you.

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