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Kate Winslet remembers ‘straight-up merciless’ remedy by tabloids put up ‘Titanic’

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LOS ANGELES: ‘Titanic’ actress Kate Winslet is asking out the tabloid remedy she obtained early in her profession.

The Academy Award winner, 47, not too long ago obtained candid about her expertise within the 1997 James Cameron blockbuster ‘Titanic’, together with the “awful” body-shaming she confronted from the media and the general public, as she appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast forward of the movie’s twenty fifth anniversary, experiences People journal.

“Apparently, I was too fat,” Winslet instructed host Josh Horowitz of a few of the extra insulting arguments about why Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) could not match on that door previous to his loss of life. “Isn’t it awful? Why were they so mean to me? They were so mean. I wasn’t even f******* fat.”

She continued: “If I could turn back the clock, I would have used my voice in a completely different way…. I would have said to journalists, I would have responded: ‘Don’t you dare treat me like this. I’m a young woman, my body is changing, I’m figuring it out, I’m deeply insecure, I’m terrified, don’t make this any harder than it already is.’ That’s bullying, you know, and actually borderline abusive, I would say.”

According to People, she’s beforehand opened up concerning the “straight-up cruel” remedy she obtained from tabloids, telling The Guardian final February: “I was still figuring out who the hell I bloody well was!”

“They would comment on my size, they’d estimate what I weighed, they’d print the supposed diet I was on,” Winslet recalled. “It was critical and horrible and so upsetting to read.”

ALSO READ | ‘Only one might survive’, asserts James Cameron after scientific research to show Jack’s loss of life in ‘Titanic’

LOS ANGELES: ‘Titanic’ actress Kate Winslet is asking out the tabloid remedy she obtained early in her profession.

The Academy Award winner, 47, not too long ago obtained candid about her expertise within the 1997 James Cameron blockbuster ‘Titanic’, together with the “awful” body-shaming she confronted from the media and the general public, as she appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast forward of the movie’s twenty fifth anniversary, experiences People journal.

“Apparently, I was too fat,” Winslet instructed host Josh Horowitz of a few of the extra insulting arguments about why Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) could not match on that door previous to his loss of life. “Isn’t it awful? Why were they so mean to me? They were so mean. I wasn’t even f******* fat.”

She continued: “If I could turn back the clock, I would have used my voice in a completely different way…. I would have said to journalists, I would have responded: ‘Don’t you dare treat me like this. I’m a young woman, my body is changing, I’m figuring it out, I’m deeply insecure, I’m terrified, don’t make this any harder than it already is.’ That’s bullying, you know, and actually borderline abusive, I would say.”

According to People, she’s beforehand opened up concerning the “straight-up cruel” remedy she obtained from tabloids, telling The Guardian final February: “I was still figuring out who the hell I bloody well was!”

“They would comment on my size, they’d estimate what I weighed, they’d print the supposed diet I was on,” Winslet recalled. “It was critical and horrible and so upsetting to read.”

ALSO READ | ‘Only one might survive’, asserts James Cameron after scientific research to show Jack’s loss of life in ‘Titanic’