British actress Kate Winslet says "life is too short" to worry about physical appearance after she was allegedly told to sit up to hide "belly rolls" on the set of her latest film. The 48-year-old was speaking about playing Lee Miller in Lee, a biopic about the World War II photographer's life, and said she thought the comments were "absolutely bizarre" because her character's body "would be soft". Speaking on Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Winslet said she intends to "live my life" and "enjoy it" rather than worry about her appearance.
"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.
"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.
"And people were saying 'God, how wonderful, you know. She's saying that she doesn't care about her body'. "But it was through the conversation about playing Lee.
.. and I think my point is that, as women, we so need to be having that conversation and just celebrating just being a real shape and being soft and maybe having a few extra rolls.
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