{"id":2208237,"date":"2025-12-22T07:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2208237"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:07:23","slug":"kate-winslet-reveals-horrific-media-intrusion-that-made-her-terrified-to-go-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kate-winslet-reveals-horrific-media-intrusion-that-made-her-terrified-to-go-to-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Winslet reveals \u2018horrific\u2019 media intrusion that made her \u2018terrified to go to sleep\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Holiday<\/span> actor (50) said she was followed by paparazzi, had her phone tapped and that people searched through her bins to \u201ctry and figure out what diet I was on or wasn\u2019t on\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was horrific. There were people tapping my phone. They were just everywhere. And I was just on my own. I was terrified to go to sleep,\u201d she told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Desert Island Discs<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Winslet, who has just released her directorial debut Goodbye June<\/span>, said that after Titanic was <\/span>released, she saw herself on the cover of newspapers and magazines, often accompanied by what she described as \u201cawful, terrible, actually abusive names\u201d.<\/p>\n

She said she dealt with media attention with \u201ca good meal, a shared conversation, a nice cup of coffee, a bit of Radiohead and a good poo\u201d.<\/p>\n

While filming Titanic<\/span> in her early 20s, Winslet said she experienced difficulty with her body image, and was not prepared for her body to be in the public eye.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t ready for that world,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t look like this. My stomach isn\u2019t flat like that<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She recalled the negative comments she received from a drama teacher, who told her she would have to \u201csettle for the fat girl parts\u201d, and shared that she was nicknamed \u201cblubber\u201d at primary school as a child.<\/p>\n

From the ages of 15 to 19, she said she was \u201con and off\u201d dieting, \u201cbarely eating\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really unhealthy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on her depiction in the media after the release of Titanic,<\/span> Winslet described how magazine cover images of her were edited without her knowledge, which she spoke about in the 2000s.<\/p>\n

Winslet recalled seeing the edited images and thinking: \u201cI don\u2019t look like this. My stomach isn\u2019t flat like that. My legs are not that long, my boobs are not that big. What? My arms aren\u2019t that toned. What the hell?\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the actor called on her famous peers to keep their looks natural amid the rise of non-surgical cosmetic procedures and weight-loss drugs. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.ie \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Holiday actor (50) said she was followed by paparazzi, had her phone tapped and that people searched through her bins to \u201ctry and figure out what diet I was on or wasn\u2019t on\u201d. \u201cIt was horrific. There were people tapping my phone. They were just everywhere. And I was just on my own. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2208238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Kate-Winslet-reveals-\u2018horrific-media-intrusion-that-made-her-\u2018terrified.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208239,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208237\/revisions\/2208239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2208238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}