Kate Winslet- "I'm Not Going To Hide My Stretch Marks For Sex Scenes"

[Lobelia]

I'm sure she is admirable. But at some point, this preachy holier-than-thou stance starts getting annoying. It shouldn't be the only thing one stands
out for for soo many years

My, it's a sad situation when a woman is considered preachy & holier-than-thou for insisting on being normal.

[bite me spidey]

^^ The studios think of her as an investment, and they will
protect their investment by airbrushing, presumably without
telling her.

In fact, she once criticized a magazine for airbrushing a cover photo
of her to make her skinny and remove her curves after the mag
had come out...and the mag claims her people signed off on the
cover photo (i.e., they gave it their OK). This is a trifle disingenuous
on her part: she stands to gain the benefits of airbrushing while
railing at the deceptive practices of the industry.

(And yet another report indicates she is an expert calorie-counter
when she shops...which means she possesses the same weight-
watching obsession.)

I think she's a great talent and a beauty, but she's not above
the occasional meaningless, hypocritical rambling that other celebs
are famous for (Banned: "I'm not having sex for a whole year!")

Well I can't say that's not true. It is quite hypocritical for her to do that, but we're all human. I still think her message is good because, even if it's not 100% true, it's something to go against the countless amounts of too-thin actresses going "omg I'm perfect look at my bones!" As long as she never gets stickly thin, her message still has some meaning.

[Somerset]

1. On the weight issue, she may be trying to have her cake and eat it
too -- she may claim to be a "real woman" and not some surgically-
enhanced, photoshopped waif while still getting the benefits of airbrushing and such,
thanks to her publicists and her agents....Is it okay for her to be
a hypocrite if she's more talented than, say, Paris Hilton?

2. What part of ourMANinBusan don't you understand?

You interpreted that wrong, mainly because I didn't write it very clearly. I meant that as a universal You, like her people are saying, "Look, she's just like you (meaning the "everyday woman" per se)." Do I make any sense?