In the real world Kate Winslet is a lovely-looking woman with a slightly slimmer than average figure – but in the celebrity world Kate Winslet is so grotesquely obese that people actually vomit into their own hands when they get too close to her flabby bum.
Or something. But even though we own sellotape with a higher fat percentage than Kate Winslet, glossy magazines still write about Kate's supposed weight problems like it's a story of Earth-shattering consequence. And now Kate Winslet is fighting back. Kate is preparing to sue Grazia magazine for claiming – apparently falsely – that she sought out the help of a Chinese 'diet doctor' to help her get thinner. Personally, as noble a cause as this is, we hope Kate Winslet's lawsuit is unsuccessful – face it, she'd only spend the payout on custard-filled doughnuts, the lardy sod.
Female celebrities can be so touchy about their weight, can't they? Look at JK Rowling – just the sight of a skinny woman is enough to send her on a jealous rant. And then there's Keira Knightley, who has the temerity to sue a newspaper for saying that her being thin was indirectly responsible for a girl's death. And don't get us started on Nicole Richie, who can't seem to decide if she's skinny, if she's not skinny or if she wants to load up on pot and drive up a motorway backwards. But what if the problem isn't that you're skinny? What if the problem is that you're a giant blobby fatto?
Only an idiot would accuse Kate Winslet of being a giant blobby fatto – you don't get voted seventh-prettiest woman in the world by constantly shovelling potatoes into your mouth like Robbie Williams popping his prescription drugs – but much is often made of the way that Kate Winslet doesn't look as ridiculously withered and two-dimensional as many of her other female celebrity counterparts, and Kate's had enough.
Realising that going on TV every second of every day and carping on about her weight wasn't helping, Kate Winslet is now suing Grazia magazine for saying that she visited the Chinese Healing Institute in Los Angeles to see a diet doctor instead, as Sky reports:
"I'm very upset, it's categorically untrue, it's a complete lie," Kate told the BBC on Sunday. She continued: "I'm going to fight for myself. I don't want people thinking that I would ever go to a diet doctor. I never have done, and I never will. I will continue to say what I feel about this issue of women being thin and emaciated. It's just out of control. I know I am a role model to young women, it's a role I take very, very seriously. I would never want anyone to think I was a hypocrite in doing something like going to a diet doctor."
Right on Kate Winslet! Professional nutritional information is for wankers! However much suing a magazine to make an example of society's obsession with weight will help raise a debate on the matter, though, we can't help feeling that a faster way for Kate Winslet to make the world a better place would be for her to stop making rubbish like The Holiday and that godawful American Express advert she was in. We'd happily sign that petition.
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Isso says
So she’s suing because she didn’t go to see a diet doctor. I could do with a diet doctor. Does that mean Winslet hates me?
Roy S. Le Pre says
How frightfully wrong of Grazia magazine – che peccato!
Let Winslet have a trip the most deprived, poor, starving parts of Africa, viz. Ethiopia, The Sudan and Somalia. There, let her behold the fine, clear-cut, no-fat figures of those that roam these places, and define herself by her achievements.
She could even try and be thankful of what she has! Now, there’s a thought!! Oh! Hang on….what they “claim” she has, but she SO hasn’t!
Why do celebrities tend to to go a bit ga-ga and doolalley about what is important to us? Does she think she’s a figure on our altars? Have their advisors buggered off down the road?
Kate, darling, do us all a favour and go back to bed. Or, even better, on holiday.
John says
Jesus, you are petty.
gir says
John, you seem to be thoroughly and repeatedly missing the point here.