I have something to admit that will send the sisterhood into a tizzy: I’m kind of over Kate Winslet. At some point, she really started rubbing me the wrong way. It’s not because she and Sam Mendes split, but maybe it’s because of how she behaved afterwards? But not even that specifically… it feels like Winslet has changed for the worse over the past few years. She won her Oscar, took a well-deserved breather, got a divorce, and yet… in the few interviews I’ve read with her recently, I just wanted her to shut up. There’s a smugness there, but like she’s trying to put on the “I’m just a average woman” façade. I feel like she’s patronizing us. I feel like she’s just another Hollywood hustler now with her jacked face and (what I see as) her lies about weight loss and Botox. I’m tired of the “I’m just a normal mother” act whenever she’s posing for her latest ad campaign with Mario Testino. I don’t know. She just bugs.
And then there’s this… for the past few months, Kate has allegedly been a single girl after she split with British model Lousi Dowler. Now she’s taken him back, apparently:
Oscar winner Kate Winslet was spotted upstate with model Louis Dowler over the weekend, despite reports they split after four months last November. The “Mildred Pierce” star and handsome Dowler were seen driving together in Woodstock on Sunday.
The two met at a party after Winslet and director Sam Mendes announced in March last year they were ending their seven-year marriage. Her romance with Dowler hit a Bump, with Winslet reportedly telling him she wants to be alone, but it now looks like they’ve patched things up. Winslet’s rep didn’t get back to us.
[From Page Six]
See? I don’t blame her for wanting “easy.” She’s a single mom with two kids, two ex-husbands and a thriving career. Why would she want a relationship that’s actually high maintenance? Why not just go for the low-maintenance model? I understand that. But I guess my problem is that I thought Winslet was better than all of this, better than on-and-off hookups with male models, better than jacking her face, better than the smugness, better than the put-on act. Once again, I know you’re going to yell at me. But I’m just over her.
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News and WENN.
I like her…she’s not a fame whore..she’s not trying to get pictures of herself in magazines or be seen with other stars. I think she’s genuine.
I think she’s the answer to a blind item (can’t find it but I’ve been looking) about an actress who got out of a long-term relationship, into another, and ended up pregnant. Especially now that they’re back together.
One of the clues was “hearts will be broken” which a lot of people thought was a reference to Titanic.
EDIT: Got it! Here’s the link: http://www.dlisted.com/2011/05/23/blind-item
And I’m right there with you on the S.S. Overit, Kaiser. She’s become grating and irritating.
I am over too. Tired of her being naked in MOST of her Oscar bait films. Tired of her talking about her weight. Tired of her “I’m just like you” routine. Lastly I am VERY tired of her ” I’m NATURAL” bit when it is obvious that she has had work done. Her boobs look completely different from her early days.
Still love her. I think most celebs become this way over time. But she doesn’t annoy me yet 😉
I’m indifferent to Kate Winslet, but I really hated “Mildred Pierce”
I LUFFFFF her!
I’m even afraid to agree with you (Kaiser) here because I once said I didn’t like her for whatever reason but couldn’t quite put my finger on it and some people got really mad at me.
Okay. Because it’s confession time, I got to say: I’ve never liked her. *dodges bullets* I appreciate her talent, I truly believe that she’s an amazing actress, overlooked for many years and that Oscar was well deserved. But I don’t know what it is, can’t seem to put my finger on it; she rubs me the wrong way.
uh, sorry but I’d get back w/him too–he is gorgeous!!
uh, I’m still feeling her, she’s just like all of the other actresses that hide behind “I’m just do normal things that all MOTHERS/women do”
I don’t loathe her like I do maybe, Nicole K, or Katie or JHo..
I am still digging her, especially her ON/OFF lover, LOL
I like Kate. Always have. So I am going to have my bias rant now.
Kate is a employee, in a business, that only values perfection in their females.
And if you are a female wanting to maintain your place in this evil little high school of Movie Land… you have to be prepare to fight for it.
So she is fighting for it.
Kate knew she had to lose the weight. And get a head to toe make over. Then work to maintain it till she is at least 45.
I suspect she would have like to kept those 30 pounds. And really crazy eyebrows she once had. But in the reality of it. She wanted to be a lead actress in the US market not a character actress in the UK.
So she looks like one. And one that is probably hungry all the time.
I still do not see any face work.
All I see is a female that is over 30. And we all lose our soft sweet faces by then. The older we get the more sharp our features become.
Then she gets to add to it a professional makeup… make over… to benefit her features the most.
So yes, she looks better. We all would if we had her cash.
And for the record. That last husband of hers was no winner in the looks department.
So if she wants to date a gorgeous man… so be it. Maybe it takes her mind off being hungry all the time. 🙂
Ohhh I LOVED, Mildred Pierce…..
Same thing happened to me , Eve. LoL i’m not a winslet fan.
Sshe does look different – what has she done to her face? Anyone know? It’s obvious she started exercising also.
It is hard not to get bitten by the outer beauty bug in Hollywood. Unfortunately it always kills their inner beauty.
That’s what happens when people have great expectations about celebrities.
I like her, I don’t think that she has had major work done on her face (maybe hyaluronic acid injections), I think she struggles with her weight because of the pressure that HW puts on women, but on the other hand she doesn’t want people to think she does, above all I think she doesn’t want her kids to know she does. She often says that she doesn’t want her kids to have a distorted perception of reality. And yes, maybe she’s having fun with a low-maintainance model (but we can’t say it for certain, maybe they are in love), and I wouldn’t blame her.
Do I expect celebrities to be sincere? No.
As long as she does her job well, I have no problems with her.
*If she was an untalented celebrity I would probably bash her in every way possible*
Sorry. I am normally uber bitchy but I like her. She is talented.
How many people in her class of actress claim to be ordinary people? Most of them are divas!
Winslet is a truly great actress – Mildred Pierce was stunning — and very beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent and articulate. Last year she did a one-hour TV interview with Charlie Rose in which she more than carried her weight in a discussion of acting and the film industry. She blows away the actresses giggling on late-night talk shows, who really are “ordinary people.”
She is an extremely talented actress. I like her just fine. Oh and Mildred Pierce was fantastic.
@thesea: You couldn’t have said it better!
(about the inner beauty and outer beauty in Hollywood)
I’m not over her at all, I think she’s one of the best actresses out there and her projects are always worth watching. And while she’s gotten more press lately than before, she still seems pretty low key and private, especially when compared with the talentless famewhores out there.
Never got the hype over her. She’s always been meh to me :/
I’ve been put off by her for years, it happens. If’s she’s the kind of person who whines around being teased 25 after the fact on a semi-regular basis…maybe she was a pill then, too. It isn’t as if these discussions are ever edifying, it just feels like I’m supposed to feel sorry for her, or something. Why? I can’t impugn her for the surgery, I don’t necessarily endorse it but if she’s the first woman to being less than truthful about her ‘refreshment’, I’m the king of Siam. Kate Winslet is very talented and like more articulate than the latest gaggle of starlets–doesn’t necessarily make her a Rhodes Scholar, but whatever. I don’t bear any ill will towards hers and the ‘greatest actress of the generation’ hype isn’t necessarily her fault. The fact that kind of talk irks me has everything to do with me. Still, I won’t deny it, she bugs the living fuck out of me–you can’t love everyone. I think I’m Pariah One over at Pajiba because ‘I just can’t with’ when it comes to their golden gods–Winslet, Christina Hendricks, Cameron Crowe (I can’t even encapsulate in language how much I hate Say Anything and I’ve fallen asleep trying to watch Almost Famous more times than I can count. So anodyne they could smother me). You can’t love everyone.
“It’s not because she and Sam Mendes split, but maybe it’s because of how she behaved afterwards?”
i’m not sure what this means, but girlfriend found herself divorced and went with some arm candy, lost some weight and made a mini-series…meh.
as for winslet, i like her. always have and always will. she is a beautiful woman who admits she struggles with her weight and her looks. and yes i suspect she has had something done to her face (eyelift?), whether she admits it or not. but she is enormously talented and has not (yet) had scandals involving DUI, pantyless photos, sex tapes or rehab. also she doesn’t annoy me by pimping out her kids for people magazine, writing cookbooks, oversharing initmate details of her sex life or trying to start a singing career (even though she has a beautiful voice).
I covet her arms. And talent. and heck, boyfriend.
I’ve been over Winslet for a number of years. Got blasted when I said she didn’t really deserve her Oscar.
agree with solveig.
Maybe don’t put silly expectations on others and you won’t have to be disappointed when they don’t live up to your standards
@Hautie-I agree with everything you said.
I personally don’t care what she does in her personal life as long as she’s not trying to deny EVERYTHING like some other famous ho’s. I love her movies and I think she’s very pretty, seems smart and genuine. Too bad she lives in Hollywood where it’s a requirement to get botox or any surgery when you hit a certain age.
No I’m not over her. People (the British press) have been calling her smug since the beginning of time, way before she even got married to Sam Mendes. I think she’s very different from your average celebrity. She carries a refreshing level of class and maturity, and she seems to be very wise. You’re being way too superficial in your judgment of her right now: 1) relationships, 2) weight, 3) face, 4) interview persona. 1) Just because she’s dating a model it doesn’t mean she’s just another celebrity. Normal people don’t date models? Plus you don’t even know the guy. She’s been divorced twice and she’s 35 – maybe the woman wants to have some fun? She said herself that she grew up very quickly and moved at a fast pace, zooming through life. Now I think she’s finally taking it easy. She found someone who makes her happy so what’s wrong with that? It’s not like she’s sharing intimate details. She maintains a strong sense of privacy and you never hear the next instalment of her life in the tabloids. Being “over” someone for dating a model is ridiculous. 2) She has battled with her weight over time and it’s understandable that she wants to be in good shape. I can’t stand the people who get angry at her if she loses weight. She looks healthy. A part of her must feel insecure: we’re human, we’re all insecure. In the movie business it’s even more tough. But the other part of her probably wants to be healthy for HERSELF, not for others. It’s about tending to how you feel inside, and since she was always teased for being bigger I think she’s making sure that she feels happy inside. Why are people complaining about that? Why should you expect someone you don’t know to live their life according to what you (a stranger) think is best for them? The problem is that people put expectations on celebs. Did you forget that they’re human too? We all go through changes in life that in turn change us. Anyway she has never been stick thin anyway, she’s slim but she maintained her curves. You never see her looking like a pole. 3) I don’t see any big changes in her face to be honest. Her face has never looked tight and wrinkle-free. You always see her lines depending on the picture of course; pictures, especially from events, aren’t the best way to judge someone in the flesh. Sometimes she looks caked, as if she put on too much make-up (Mildred Pierce premiere) but usually she looks very natural. She doesn’t have fake boobs, they part to the side, they aren’t perky and pointing straight. The only thing I’m a little unsure about is her nose, but then when I see her smiling with that upside-down smile her nose looks exactly the same. Whenever she makes that smile she looks just like how she did when she was younger. I don’t know. 4) In every interview I read/watch, she always sounds gracious and humble with a wicked sense of humour. I think she’s very, very self-effacing. I can just picture her being a great person to go down to the pub with. She’s always had that relatable charm to her and I think the reason why people see it as a little act is because here she is in the midst of ridiculous celebrities. She wants to get her point across that she’s a person like you and me. She doesn’t buy into all the fuss about being a celeb. Plus her priorities haven’t changed: her family comes first, her career comes second. Everything she does seems to be for the best of her kids. A *truly* happy mum equals happy kids, they look to their mum for guidance and if their mum is down in the dumps over two divorces then that’s not good. I think she wanted to push all of that behind her, that’s probably why she jumped into filming Mildred Pierce because it gave her something to focus on as well as an outlet for her emotions. She’s a wonderful, hard working actress and her passion for acting shines through in everything she does, even the Lancome shoots you get a sense that she really enjoys the aspect of playing a glamorous character and then taking that hat off when she goes home. She actually loves to act, she’s not looking for fame. She’ll be around making movies for decades because she has the drive, she has the confidence, and she has the passion. I will never get over her.
Right there with ya Kaiser. I still think she’s a terrific actress but I was pretty much done with her when she got snitty about whether or not she’d been shopped in that magazine spread with her lying bare-assed on fur. She was bugging me before that, specifically during her Oscar campaign when she went completely Hollywood but then in several interviews she tries to pretend that she’s just a ‘regular girl and a mom.’ In short I think she’s a Fakey McFakerton with body issues who somewhere along the line started believing her own hype.
I like her. And she’s just a human being like all of us are. We can’t, and shouldn’t, expect perfection from people all the time, or for them to behave the way we EXPECT them to behave.
I don’t actively dislike her, like say the twin Vaginas of Doom, Kim K and Paris Hilton, but I don’t really like her either. I’m never compelled to see her movies and generally don’t watch those that I come across on TV.
That said, while her talent/skill or whatever is certainly admirable, I’m not like blown away by those movies I have seen.
She’s a solid MEH. And yes I do wish she’d be honest and say yes I jacked my face, but she’s really no diff than say Nicole Kidman with her denials. So whatevs. She’s laughing all the way to the bank anyway.
I like her just fine (although her childhood relationship with an older man was strange, and she doesn’t seem to see that), but I’ve never been a fan of her work. She’s okay, but I always feel like I’m watching Kate Winslet act, not watching a character.
I have no idea who Louis Dowler is.
I don’t get disliking her simply because of a “vibe” that you might get. She’s not a tramp and she’s not banking on her kids or her personal life to sell her movie tickets. And she doesn’t go on and on and on about stuff that doesn’t make any sense. The only claim that might be fiction is the one where she claims to not have any botox. But she’s always looked the same to me, and her movies, which bytheway showcase such a crazy talent, always show her face capable of lots of emotion. She doesn’t look fake or bloated, she’s at a healthy weight and isn’t giving girls reasons to stop eating. What’s not to like? Even if you suspect her of being horrible behind closed doors…and where’s the rumor of that…her work and her performances speak for themselves.
I still love her. But, if only for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. That’s a masterpiece. I love that movie.
@Charlotte: You have very eloquently stated just how I feel too. Nicely done.
I think Kate is a class act. She is not perfect, but who is? Her normal human actions, good or bad, make me like her more.
@Charlotte
Seriously? You’ve never gotten a bad feeling about someone? Like they just rubbed you the wrong way? Like someone said earlier “you can’t love everybody.”
really? Some people still maintain she didn’t have work done? Google her name with heavenly creatures in google images and you will see her old nose.
I am going to post the link but I don’t know if it will work.
http://tinyurl.com/3robchg
I always liked her (she is a terrific actress) but I started to be “over” her when she practically begged for her Oscar. Yes, I know others have done so, and she certainly deserved to finally win one after 5 nominations, but it just turned me off.
I’ve got to respect her because at the end of the day there’s only Cate Blanchett that can match her on actual talent in her age range. But yeah she’s selling herself short with the male models and the Botox.
I’ll be as honest as you’ve all been too – I can’t NOT love Kate … because she was Marianne Dashwood in Emma Thompson’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and I just love that film to bits. It even makes me forgive Kate for then going on to do ‘Titanic’! 😀 My love for Kate has nothing to do with reality, in essence.
Kate definitely deserved her Oscar years before she actually received one. She is one of my favorites, right up there with Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett.
As for her personal life, well that is not my concern. She has children and seems to love being a mother. The model boyfriend is very much deserved after the toads she has kissed.
You are “over” Kate Winslet??????
In a world of Leeanne Rimes, Kim Kardashian, Courtney Love, Lindsay Lohan, Gwynenneth P, Paris Hilton, REALLY?
Oh-Kay……….
Not me. TEAM WINSLET.
*Not to mention Charlie Sheen, jesse James, Tiger Woods or Simon Crowell………if we wanted to go there……..
I like her – sorry BUT that doesn’t mean I can’t criticize.
She NEEDED that botox. She works out, diets and cares about her body a lot more than she claims.
However, she has to play to her fan base and even with those cute new muscles on her legs she is F.A.T. for Hollywood. She looks like a normal fit woman. She doesn’t look like an emaciated body builder or a waif. However, she is not soft. You don’t get cute little muscles by doing nothing or by chasing kids. If not a lot of my friends would be in a lot better shape.
I wish she would talk about what she does to look like she does. I don’t care about the botox, she has or had a lot more wrinkles than I do even though is is 6 years younger. I would like to know how she got the cute little muscles.
I like her still. And guess what, she went for a challenge with that director husband, only to have him cheat on her with sweeter, younger starlet things. Eff challenges and old fart husbands, bring on the handsome bf for the girl, she deserves it! And who’s to say the model dude isn’t a decent mate for her, he could be a smart cookie too.
Love her still. I’d like her to end up with DiCaprio.
I like her. For an actress, she seems smart, reasonably natural, and not completely up her own behind. Even if the ‘Reader’ was not my favorite, she has genuine talent and that is increasingly in rare supply.
lol, whatever. Team (class act) Winslet.
Yes, google her very old work and it’s extremely obvious that she’s had work done. Oh and she didn’t get that body by 30 mins of exercise per day either. She’s one of those actors that I really really like in film but I don’t want to read her opinions on everything. I get that she’s having fun now that she’s single and she thinks she’s pretty hot stuff. She does look good.