Kate Winslet says focus on her weight as a young star was 'straight-up cruel'

Kate Winslet says public scrutiny of her weight caused her to feel self-conscious about her own body image as a young actress, even as she was one of the biggest stars in the entire world.

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"In my 20s, people would talk about my weight a lot," the 45-year-old Oscar winner says in an interview with the Guardian. "And I would be called to comment on my physical self. Well, then I got this label of being ballsy and outspoken. No, I was just defending myself.”

The Titanic star tells the newspaper that she recently re-read some articles written about her when she was still a teenager and was surprised by how "cruel" the discussion about her weight was in the media.