WE LOVE KATE!

Appearing at this years Toronto Film Festival, our Kate came out with several quotes that are music to the ears of Relentlessly Positive-ites, sick to death with hearing actresses putting themselves down and buying into the whole 'yes I'm thin but don't hate me' routine.

Kate appears in Little Children, a film about identity and relationships. And parenthood. Little Children has a couple of nude scenes, and her initial reaction was - "That's it! I can't do it again! I've had two kids!"

Modesty

Eventually, she got over her modesty and relented, "I suppose it will be quite good to look back on when I'm 60, and I can go, 'Aha! Look what I did! And I'd had two children at the time!' But I remember walking in to do it, thinking, 'How am I going to pull this off? The belly is certainly not what it was. The boobs are certainly not what they were.' You do think, 'Oh, God!' but at the same time, I was playing a mother, and it's so important to me to have those things look as real as possible."

Amen to that! Is it really so important that a mother looks as if she hasn't had babies? That body has just done something pretty damn amazing, and instead of letting it recover, 'Yummy Mummies' are stressing about getting back into their size ten Rock & Republics...that's if a size ten isn't a bit on the big side...

Cracked Record

At risk of, in Kate's own words, sounding like a 'cracked record' she again talked at length about young girls and body image in contemporary society - a subject obviously close to her heart.

"More than ever now, I believe it's so important to look as real and true to life as possible, because nobody's perfect. I seem to be on a mission, but I don't want the next generation, your daughters and mine, growing up thinking that you have to be thin to look beautiful in certain clothes. It's terrifying right now. It's out of control. It's beyond out of control."

She is disgusted by celebrity magazines that put photos of undernourished stars on their covers, "and then express faux concern for them. If you're really that concerned, don't do it. Don't put those pictures where young girls will see them."

Indeed, Kate. How can we expect our next generation of young girls to grow up loving themselves and with a healthy sense of self when they believe that they can only be accepted if they exist between media determined 'ideal' weight ranges? If they are naturally skinny, what does flaunting an emaciated picture of Nicole Ritchie with an alarmist headline on the front of Heat do to help? How exactly is that going to help anyone, when in the very same issues of the very same magazines there are constant 'celebrity' diets, and critical images of Z-List celebrities who 'could do with losing a few pounds' or have 'a touch of cellulite'

Back to Kate...

Not content with being 'normal' about her body shape, Kate thinks that being able to move her face and communicate emotions through expressions is essential to an actor, and she would hate for that to be taken away by botox or plastic surgery, so that she could retain a youthful face.

"I've no intention of getting carved up or injected, thank you very much," Contactmusic quoted her, as saying.

"When you're acting, you have to be able to move your face. You have to be able to communicate your emotions through your expression, and I would hate to have that taken away," she added.

Kate has accepted the fact being an actress makes her a role model for young women.

"For a long time, that seemed like a huge responsibility, but if I am that to some young women, then that's great. I'm tremendously flattered to be looked up to in that way, and I feel an enormous responsibility to stay normal and true to myself and not conform and all those things. You know? To be healthy. And normal. And to like to eat cake."

Yay! Kate Winslet, we crown you Queen of Relentlessly Positive!