Kate Winslet is the cover girl for the November issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK, and she’s all dolled up to look sort-of Marilyn Monroe-esque. Have you noticed that Kate has been wearing a lot more makeup than she usually does? She’s been applying her junk with a shovel for red carpet appearances and photo shoots lately, I personally think she’s been overdoing it to hide the work she’s had done on her eyes. Still, the photos are pretty and I’m sure some people are convinced that she’s completely all-natural. Sure. Here are some highlights from the interview:

On her divorce from Sam Mendes: “One thing I will say about me and Sam is that it’s fine, it’s really fine. I’m not going to s–t-fling, there’s no point in even going there. It is what it is. We’re grown-ups at the end of the day, and however hard it’s been for me, it’s been equally hard for him. And we have a child together who we both love – and raising him together, jointly and without any conflict, is absolutely key. It’s the only way to do it, and I’ve really learned that with Mia.”

Soldiering on: “As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on – almost too good. I probably had very few moments of allowing that sadness to emerge. I kept pushing it away, not even really sharing it a huge amount with friends. Because you know what it’s like, as soon as you open that can of worms, it’s so f***ing big, you wish you’d never taken the goddamn lid off.”

Raising her children: “There’s no way that I’m going to allow my children to be f***ed up because my marriages haven’t worked out. I so wish that that wasn’t the case – that that hadn’t happened in my life. But it has, so I will make the best of it – and I am.”

Art imitating life: She revealed she had to film a divorce scene in Mildred Pierce – the acclaimed HBO TV series for which she won a best actress Emmy last month – on the day the first stage of her divorce to Mendes came through, admitting: “So that scene is nothing to do with acting.”

Sex scenes with Guy Pearce: She also told how she was “nervous” before her character Mildred’s sex scene with Bert, played by Guy Pearce, because it was “such a profoundly bizarre thing to do with one’s life… There’s a woman with a heart, a soul and a genuine capacity for emotion, having not been truly touched for years. I can really relate to that scene…  because it’s part of life – sex, lovemaking, those glorious moments of passion between two people. To be beautiful, in these moments – that’s the power of genuine longing and intensity, and I crave those feelings in life, those experiences. That’s why I’ve never needed drugs; I’ve avoided druggy, boozy circles of people. I don’t need anything synthetic to get that sense of elation… I feel I’m just at the beginning of a new narrative, and it’s incredibly exciting.”

[From Bazaar UK via This is London]

She sounds pretty mature about her divorces and raising her kids, but I suspect that Kate doesn’t have the best taste in men. Judging her from her two ex-husbands, her ex-boyfriend Louis Dowler and her current lover Ned RockNRoll… it doesn’t seem like she’s really looking for a partner, someone she can build a life with. There’s nothing wrong with just going for whatever kind of dude you’re in the mood for at any given moment, but I do have concerns about Kate’s douche radar and whether or not she even has one. Speaking of, you know that the still-married Ned RockNRoll is now officially Kate’s boyfriend, right? She brought him to Shanghai where she made an appearance for one of her modeling gigs, as the face of Longines Watches. According to various UK reports, Kate is telling friends that she and Ned are “madly in love” and that he’s “the One”. She might even want to marry him! Oh, Kate.

Photos courtesy of The Fashion Spot & WENN.