Kate Winslet: "Women get more beautiful as they get older, for sure"
She may be considered one of the greatest acting talents of all time, but even Kate Winslet has struggled with confidence issues. As she’s navigated such a successful career – having landed BAFTAs, Emmys and an Oscar – the 48-year-old has learned a few tips that have helped bolster her self-belief.
For Winslet, the things many of us try and conceal as we age are actually what she thinks makes us more beautiful.
“Women get more beautiful as they get older, for sure, because our faces become more of a part of who we are,” she tells Harper’s Bazaar UK as part of our Life Lessons franchise.
“[Our faces] sit better on our bone structure, they have more life, they have more history. Things I find incredibly beautiful are wrinkles around the eyes, the backs of hands, I think those things are very beautiful.”
Of course, Winslet is careful not to solely focus on aesthetics, with taking care of mental health, and living in an honest and authentic way, equally important when it comes to cultivating wellbeing.
“I’ve also learned it’s important to take care of yourself on the inside,” she continues. “Not just what you eat and how you look after yourself from a nutritional standpoint, but how you look after yourself from a mental wellness standpoint – how you feel about yourself emotionally, physically, how you walk through the world, how you live with integrity and sincerity.
“I think those things matter, and those things come out in how we look, and subsequently, of course, how we feel. Beauty really is a feeling. I don’t think it’s a thing we look at.”
Winslet’s learned confidence stems from her baptism of fire into superstardom, becoming a household name aged just 21 after starring in Titanic opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. While she previously admitted to developing an eating disorder after tabloid attacks on her weight in the nineties and noughties, she now embraces the authenticity of looking less than perfect on screen – something she did in her latest film, Lee.
“There’s a bit where Lee’s sitting on a bench in a bikini... And one of the crew came up between takes and said: 'You might want to sit up straighter.' So you can’t see my belly rolls? Not on your life! It was deliberate, you know?” she said in the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK. “ I take pride in [not looking perfect] because it is my life on my face, and that matters. It wouldn’t occur to me to cover that up.”
You can watch Winslet’s full Life Lessons video here.
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