Kate Winslet thinks she’s a ‘street urchin’ who ‘got lucky’

Kate Winslet considers herself a “street urchin” who “got lucky”. The actress, 48, has racked up film credits from ‘Titanic’ to her new film ‘Lee’ and banked an estimated fortune of £71 million, but has now said she thinks she is an “unlikely” success story due to her humble start in life. She told People: “I was kind of a little street urchin who got lucky, really.

I’m a very unlikely success story, to be quite honest with you. “I don’t come from money. There isn’t a great pedigree of performers behind me.

I wasn't trained.” Kate was raised with her three sisters in a working-class household in England by her actor father Roger, who had to also take odd jobs to survive, and her waitress and nanny mother Sandra. Kate added: “The pride I feel is enormous in the things that I have been able to do.

“And to be able to say that I’m proud of myself matters, because I think that that’s something else I hope to put out there – that women should be able to stand with pride and acknowledge that and not feel like they are bigging themselves up. “It’s a self-acceptance and an awareness of doing something that is challenging and that feels impactful and takes effort like you wouldn’t believe. “So, yeah, if you’d told the 18-year-old me that I would’ve had this career up till now and still getting to do the thing that I love, I probably wouldn’t have believed you.

” Kate also recently admitted she “knows” undergoing testosterone.