Kate Winslet slams body shaming she was subjected to after Titanic: ‘I wasn’t even f**king fat’-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro

The star has reflected on the obsession people had with her weight after Titanic came out (Picture: Getty)

Kate Winslet has reflected on the body shaming she received when Titanic first came out 25 years ago, with people deciding to mock her for her weight.

The actress, who was Oscar-nominated for her performance as young socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1997 blockbuster, was just 19 when she landed the part.

Unfortunately, there was a mean-spirited contingent of viewers and press who decided to comment on her body at the time, with some of them linking it to the evergreen conversation around the door.

In Titanic, star-crossed lovers Rose and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), initially survive the sinking of the huge boat. Jack is later seen putting Rose on a door floating in the ocean, but doesn’t join her, instead sacrificing himself to the freezing water so she can survive.

However, according to Winslet – who doesn’t think they would both have fit, by the way – some toxic fans decided she was too heavy for them both to have stayed adrift.

‘Apparently I was too fat. Isn’t it awful? Why were they so mean to me? They were so mean. I wasn’t even f**king fat,’ she mused.

The actress was just 19 when she was cast and 22 by the time Titanic came out (Picture: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock)

Some toxic fans blamed her weight on Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) not fitting on the floating door at the end (Picture: 20th Century Fox/Paramount/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock)

Tackling the criticism she had to put up with as a young adult who found massive fame, she added on the Happy Sad Confused podcast: ‘If I could turn back the clock, I would have used my voice in a completely different way. I would have said to journalists, I would have responded, I would have said, “Don’t you dare treat me like this. I’m a young woman, my body is changing, I’m figuring it out, I’m deeply insecure, I’m terrified, don’t make this any harder than it already is.”

‘That’s bullying, you know, and actually borderline abusive, I would say.’

Now, the actress is pleased to say that the reaction she faced is not something that would happen today – but she insisted that despite the fact the fixation on women’s bodies is lessening, ‘we’ve still got such a ways to go’.

It’s not the first time the 47-year-old seven-time Oscar nominee has spoken out about how the body shaming narrative after Titanic had an impact on her.

Winslet said she would have hit back more at the criticism if she could turn back the clock (Picture: CBS via Getty Images)

With co-star DiCaprio at the Golden Globes in 1998 (Picture: Hal Garb/AFP via Getty Images)

In a 2021 interview with The Guardian, she said it was ‘almost laughable’ how ‘shocking, critical and cruel’ the comments about her weight were in the media, especially given she was so young.

She said she got the label of being ‘ballsy and outspoken’ too, when she was ‘just defending’ herself.

‘I was still figuring out who the hell I bloody was! They would comment on my size, they’d estimate what I weighed, they’d print the supposed diet I was on. It was critical and horrible and so upsetting to read,’ she recalled.

She has reunited with Titanic writer-director James Cameron for Avatar: The Way of Water (Picture: Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Following its release, Titanic went on to scoop up 11 Academy Awards – equalling the all-time record set by Ben-Hur in 1959 and later matched by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003.

Writer-director James Cameron, with whom Winslet has teamed up with once more for new release Avatar: The Way of Water, recently said he thought that Winslet had been left ‘a bit traumatised’ by Titanic’s scale and the major part she played in its production.

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Producer Jon Landau also praised her and DiCaprio’s role in the film’s success, saying he felt they didn’t get enough credit.

Reflecting on its 25th anniversary, he told Metro.co.uk: ‘I am so overwhelmed that it stays part of the public consciousness, but Jim [Cameron] wrote that into the script and Kate and Leo gave us these two performances – and I don’t think people talk enough about the performances they gave us in that movie to create the ultimate love story.’

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