Kate Winslet Gets Frank About Airbrushing

Kate Winslet is refreshingly honest for an Oscar-winning mega-star. At 34, she may be the spokeswoman for a major cosmetics company and have her flawless face appear on magazine covers and towering billboards, but Kate’s not trying to kid anyone about the fact that she, too, has wrinkles.

“I have wrinkles here [she points to her forehead], which are very evident, and I will particularly say when I look at movie posters, ‘You guys have airbrushed my forehead. Please can you change it back?‘ I’d rather be the woman they’re saying ‘She’s looking older’ about than ‘She’s looking stoned,’” Kate tells Harper’s Bazaar.  

“The media plays such a big role in how women measure themselves against other women, so I can be in a position where I can say beauty comes from within, we’re not all perfect, and the covers of magazines are of course retouched. We do not look like that.”

Kate also says that there is no truth to rumors that she lost weight for this year’s Oscar ceremony.

“I’ve heard, ‘Oh, she’s toned and she’s lost weight,’ but I am exactly the same as I’ve always been. The one thing that had to go during awards season was exercise. People would say to me, ‘Oh, come on …’ like I was lying about it! Some may find it hard to believe it, but I don’t care about that stuff.”

And in spite of her gorgeous face and figure, Kate says she doesn’t think of herself as a beauty.

“…I think what you feel like as a teenager never really goes away. If you were teased for being fat or thin or having bad teeth, you’re always insecure about that particular area of yourself. So I’ve never thought of myself as any kind of beauty, iconic or otherwise.”

We say that she’s not only iconic, but a role model for us all!