“When I was younger, my agent would get calls saying, ‘How’s her weight?’'
being body-shamed by the media and film industry is both ridiculous and all too familiar.
On the one hand, she starred in the biggest film of the 20th century, a love story in which heartthrob-erarisks his life multiple times because he fell in love with her in just one glance, half the ship is obsessed with her, and oh yeah, the “draw me like one of your French girls” scene launched a thousand sexual awakenings. Clearly, the woman is and was drop-dead gorgeous to audiences, directors, and basically everyone with working eyes. But on the other hand… Hollywood. Ugh.
Winslet opened up about the ridiculous career advice she got as a young actor when the industry tried to pigeonhole her talent just because she wasn’t a waif. “When I was younger, my agent would get calls saying, ‘How’s her weight?’ I kid you not,” the
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