The star also views her huge career success, which saw her win the Best Actress Oscar in 2009 for her movie The Reader, as “revenge” on the kids who used to bully her when she was a child. “For being chubby…and I had girls who were envious of me because I was acting a little bit as a teenager”.
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The project, which is now shooting in NY, is the latest to make Kate’s teenage daughter, Mia, jealous of her mum’s work as the actress also recently starred opposite Australian hunk Liam Hemsworth in The Dressmaker.
“So this is my revenge. I have healthy children, I have a really happy life, so it’s like, ‘look at me now girls!'”
The 40-year-old actress has been the object of envy for many due to her glittering film career that saw her rocket to stardom when she starred alongside Leonardo Di Caprio in Titanic, but the blonde beauty has revealed she wasn’t always well-liked, and that she was mercilessly taunted at school because she was overweight.
The two star in a new Australian film, “The Dressmaker”, about a woman named Tilly Dunnage who returns to her hometown, Dungatar, in the Australian outback, where she was an outcast.
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“I had lots of girls who were jealous of me and lots of girls who were really trying to put me down”, Winslet told CBS News. She admitted, however, that she was left embarrassed after making a small faux-pas with her latest co-star. “There was a vulnerability in Tilly as well, her toughness and strength and all of those things that I certainly. can identify with”. “It’s very isolating when you’re bullied as a kid and as a effect it’s something I feel really pretty strongly about, but I live to tell the tale”. “Did you just say that?’ Can you imagine?”
