Kate Winslet has said women need to celebrate ‘being a real shape and being soft and maybe having a few extra rolls’ after she was told to hide her ‘belly rolls’ on the Lee Miller biopic film set.
The actress, 48, who is depicting the World War II photographer in the biopic directed by Ellen Kuras, said she found the comment ‘absolutely bizarre’ because Lee Miller’s body ‘would be soft’.
WHAT KATE SAID
Kate told the BBC‘s Laura Kuenssberg: ‘It was my job to be like Lee. She wasn’t lifting weights and doing Pilates, she was eating cheese, bread and drinking wine and not making a big deal of it, so of course her body would be soft.’
‘But I think we’re so used to perhaps not necessarily seeing that and enjoying it – the instinct, weirdly, is to see it and criticise it or comment on it in some way.
‘It’s interesting how much people do like labels for women. And they very much liked them in Lee’s day, and, annoyingly, they sort of still do – we slap these labels on women that we just don’t have for men. It’s absolutely bizarre to me.’
Kate believes women should be having conversations about the labels given to women depending on their body shape and ‘just celebrating being a real shape and being soft and maybe having a few extra rolls’.
