The 50-year-old actress has openly discussed her troubled early years, when classmates at school were “bloody horrible” to her, locking her in closets, and mocking her weight.
Kate Winslet, the Oscar-winning actress, has revealed how cruel taunts from classmates and even teachers led to her developing a serious health issue. She claimed that the drama school staff had treated her poorly, which sparked an eating disorder, because she wasn’t as slim as some of the other girls in her acting class.
She explained on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs: “I really remember vividly a drama teacher who many people have wrongly assumed was a man – it was actually a woman – and she said to me, ‘Well darling, you’ll have a career if you’re happy to settle for the fat girl parts’.”
She continued, “from the age of 15 to the age of 19,” adding that she was “on and off diets.” Kate eventually claimed that she was no longer eating and that she was “really unhealthy.”
The only thing I really regret about my life is that, according to Kate, it’s the only thing I’ll ever regret because, she said, “Oh my God, do I look fatter, do I look fatter, do I look fatter? “, the host of the program Lauren Laverne. That continued for a very long time.
You lot, you were bloody horrible to me, and you should be ashamed, she told her former classmates.
Kate recalls that her primary school days were the source of the bullying: “I had many kids tease me at primary school. They would refer to me as “Blubber.”
I wasn’t even too heavy, they said. They would lock me in the art cupboard and say, “Blubber’s blubbing in the art cupboard,” and other similar phrases. I just had stocky thighs.
The multi-BAFTA award-winning actress recalls how, at the age of 15, the other girls at her school began to hate her talent: “They hated me then. When I went back to school, I was reminded that their desks had been moved to the other side of the room and I had been pushed into a corner.
She claimed she had “pretty thick skin” and put herself in drama school because, according to Kate, “the school meant people became as illogical as I could possibly make them.” I would not allow them to ruin a trajectory I had been determined to be on.
Kate has since developed into one of the most admired and respected actresses of her generation due to the trajectory she took. The 50-year-old actress has a range of impressive acting talents, including Juliet Hulme’s role in The Reader and Juliet Hulme’s role in Titanic, which won her an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2008 for.
This year she made her directorial debut with the Netflix drama film Goodbye June, which she also produced and starred in.
