Kate Winslet Shares Some of Her Earliest “Intimate Experiences” Were With Women

Still, she “barely” ate from age 15 to 19. 

“It’s the only thing in my life I really regret because long-term,” Winslet noted, “not eating properly or eating and panicking about what you’d eaten or waking up in the morning and the first thing I’d think about is, ‘Oh my God, do I look fatter, do I look fatter?’ That went on for a really long time.'”

And though she dealt with some school bullies who called her “Blubber”—said Winslet, “You were bloody horrible to me, and you should be ashamed”—they only pushed her to succeed. 

“I learned to have a pretty thick skin fairly early on, to be honest,” Winslet shared. “But at the time it was happening, I just threw myself into my theatre company and my creative world outside of school, so that the school mean people became as insignificant as I could possibly make them.”

Because, the way the Goodbye June director saw it, “I wouldn’t let them spoil a trajectory that I was determined I was on.”

And since haters gonna hate, hate, hate, she’s far from the only star to have to stand up to body shamers. Keep reading to see how others clapped back.