Kate Winslet Refused to Hide Her "Belly Rolls" After a Crew Member's Critique

She opened up about the incident while proudly posing topless in the ocean.

Kate Winslet is rejecting unrealistic celebrity aesthetics in favor of an unfiltered life. While airbrushed magazine covers and photos have become the norm for many stars, the Oscar-winning actress shared how she’s embracing her most authentic self, wrinkles, “belly rolls,” and all. In a new interview with Harper's Bazaar U.K., Winslet opened up about the time a crew member urged her to contort her body into a more flattering angle while filming a bikini scene in her latest film.

In the biopic Lee, the Titanic alum plays Lee Miller, a photographer who documented the invasion of Normandy and the concentration camps as a war correspondent during World War II. To authentically lean into her character, Winslet says she stopped exercising for a year before filming. However, she still says she had an uncomfortable body-shaming moment while filming a scene in the movie.

"There’s a bit where Lee’s sitting on a bench in a bikini... And one of the crew came up between takes and said, 'You might want to sit up straighter,’” she recalled. However, Winslet immediately brushed off the suggestion. “So you can’t see my belly rolls? Not on your life. It was deliberate, you know?"

Nowadays, the Revolutionary Road actress said she fully owns looking “less-than-perfect on screen,” saying, “I take pride in it because it is my life on my face, and that matters. It wouldn’t occur to me to cover that up.” Pushing back on unrealistic societal pressure to hide and even reverse signs of aging has made her “more comfortable” with herself in an industry where the opposite is expected.

"I think people know better than to say, 'You might wanna do something about those wrinkles'," she wryly told the publication.

However, unlearning these criticisms and embracing her natural beauty wasn’t an easy journey. Winslet previously opened up about developing an eating disorder earlier in her career, telling The New York Times, “There was a lot of bullying of me that went on in the media, and that did get to me. Look at all those years in my twenties when I was all sorts of different shapes and sizes."

However, the acclaimed actress told Harper's Bazaar U.K. that a changing narrative has helped her find more self-acceptance, which she illustrated by posing topless in the ocean for the publication.

"I do feel a huge sense of relief that women are so much more accepting of themselves and refusing to be judged," Winslet added. “We waste so much time being down on ourselves and I’m just not doing it ever again."

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