She continued, “So, you heard it here for the first time. Yes, he could have fit on that door, but it would not have stayed afloat. It wouldn’t. ”
During the podcast, Kate Winslet also spoke about the intense body shaming she went through in her early twenties, which was used against her in the infamous door debate. «Apparently, I was too fat,» she told host Josh Horowitz.
«Isn’t it awful? Why were they so mean to me? They were so mean. I wasn’t even fucking fat. »
This isn’t the first time Winslet has opened up about this experience. In 2021, she described the “straight-up cruel” treatment she received in an interview with The Guardian. “It was almost laughable how shocking, how critical, how straight-up cruel tabloid journalists were to me,” she said at the time.
“I was still figuring out who the hell I bloody well 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. ”
Unfortunately, the problem hasn’t gone away. While discussing her recent HBO hit series Mare of Easttown in a New York Times interview, Winslet recalled director Craig Zobel promising to cut her “bulgy bit of belly” from a sex scene. Her response: “Don’t you dare! ”
