Kate Winslet has undergone a major change in her perspective on body image, especially during the filming of her latest project, “Lee.” The 48-year-old actress, widely recognized for her talent, has recently adopted a more relaxed attitude towards her appearance. This change is linked to her connection to the film’s subject, Lee Miller, a groundbreaking war photographer known for challenging societal expectations in her own life.
Winslet expressed a deep connection to Miller’s ethos, stating that Miller lived life on her own terms. This perspective has inspired Winslet to celebrate her physical self without reservations, illustrating her commitment to authenticity. Her newfound confidence shines through in her willingness to showcase her body as it naturally appears, disregarding societal pressures to conform.
She told the Daily Telegraph: “In many ways I felt more similar to her than almost any character I’ve played before.
“There’s so much of how she lived her life that I profoundly connected with, but was also inspired by.
“Everything was on her own terms. Even how she celebrated her physical self.”
Kate, who recently spoke about how she ignored a crew member’s suggestion that she might want to sit up straight in order to disguise her rolls of stomach flesh, added: “Stupid things you might consider as a woman – well, playing Lee made me think, I don’t give a f*** about any of that.
“I mean I literally don’t give a s***. I don’t care. I would take all my clothes off in front of you right now. I just don’t believe in hiding the truth, actually.”
Along with her photos, Lee is renowned for being the muse of surrealist artist Man Ray, and is remembered for her photography of the end of the Second World War, with her dispatches from the front line appearing in Vogue at the time.
She was one of just four female photographers accredited as official US correspondents during the war, was at the siege of Saint-Malo, the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau, and was famously photographed in Hitler’s bathtub at his apartment in Munich.