Mrs. Edge
Bono's Belly Dancing Friend
She looked so great before and in this photo she looks ridiculous!
Winslet digitally whittled for GQ
Actress Kate Winslet may claim she is happy to be one of Hollywood's fuller-figured leading ladies, but her latest photo shoot seems to suggest otherwise.
Winslet appears on the front cover of men's magazine GQ with her trademark curves airbrushed out of existence.
Posing in a revealing black basque, she displays a pair of supermodel-skinny legs, tiny waist and razor-sharp cheekbones thanks to digital trickery.
Inside the magazine, the 27-year-old Titanic star looks even thinner, showing off an impossibly flat stomach.
GQ editor Dylan Jones admitted that the pictures had been "digitally manipulated" to make Winslet appear thinner than she really is, and said the actress had approved the results.
But they sit a little incongruously with the accompanying interview, in which Winslet berates women for equating sex appeal with being thin.
She said: "What is sexy? All I know from the men I've ever spoken to is that they like girls to have an arse on them, so why is it that women think in order to be adored they have to be thin? I just don't understand that way of thinking."
She insisted: "I'm certainly not a sex symbol who doesn't eat."
Winslet, soon to be seen in new film The Life Of David Gale alongside Kevin Spacey, was picked on at school for being overweight and earned the nickname Blubber.
"I think when you've been a fat kid, you always see yourself in some way as a bit of a black sheep," Winslet said.
"I'm completely physically comfortable with who I am and I have no particular issues any more and I don't feel I have to run around waving my flag about the female body any more."
Winslet has spoken many times in defence of larger women and was proud of her appearance in Titanic, the film which shot her to fame.
She admits in GQ that she had a "slightly more Marilyn Monroe-y shape" in those days, but in truth the actress has shed a great deal of weight since then.
She lost 27kg following the birth of her daughter Mia in 2000, attributing the weight loss to a facial analysis diet which prescribes an eating plan based on complexion and facial features.
The following year she split from husband Jim Threapleton and since meeting new love Sam Mendes she has looked noticeably more svelte.
GQ editor Dylan Jones, who conducted the interview, admitted Winslet had been "digitally altered" in the pictures, but no more than any other cover star.
He said: "These days you only get two kinds of pictures of celebrities - paparazzi pictures or pictures like these which have been highly styled, buffed, trimmed and altered to make the subject look as good as is humanly possible.
"We do that for everyone, whether they are a size six or a size 12. It hasn't a lot to do with body size. Practically every photo you see in a magazine will have been digitally altered in this way."
But he insisted that Winslet had not been drastically slimmed down in the photos.
Winslet digitally whittled for GQ
Actress Kate Winslet may claim she is happy to be one of Hollywood's fuller-figured leading ladies, but her latest photo shoot seems to suggest otherwise.
Winslet appears on the front cover of men's magazine GQ with her trademark curves airbrushed out of existence.
Posing in a revealing black basque, she displays a pair of supermodel-skinny legs, tiny waist and razor-sharp cheekbones thanks to digital trickery.
Inside the magazine, the 27-year-old Titanic star looks even thinner, showing off an impossibly flat stomach.
GQ editor Dylan Jones admitted that the pictures had been "digitally manipulated" to make Winslet appear thinner than she really is, and said the actress had approved the results.
But they sit a little incongruously with the accompanying interview, in which Winslet berates women for equating sex appeal with being thin.
She said: "What is sexy? All I know from the men I've ever spoken to is that they like girls to have an arse on them, so why is it that women think in order to be adored they have to be thin? I just don't understand that way of thinking."
She insisted: "I'm certainly not a sex symbol who doesn't eat."
Winslet, soon to be seen in new film The Life Of David Gale alongside Kevin Spacey, was picked on at school for being overweight and earned the nickname Blubber.
"I think when you've been a fat kid, you always see yourself in some way as a bit of a black sheep," Winslet said.
"I'm completely physically comfortable with who I am and I have no particular issues any more and I don't feel I have to run around waving my flag about the female body any more."
Winslet has spoken many times in defence of larger women and was proud of her appearance in Titanic, the film which shot her to fame.
She admits in GQ that she had a "slightly more Marilyn Monroe-y shape" in those days, but in truth the actress has shed a great deal of weight since then.
She lost 27kg following the birth of her daughter Mia in 2000, attributing the weight loss to a facial analysis diet which prescribes an eating plan based on complexion and facial features.
The following year she split from husband Jim Threapleton and since meeting new love Sam Mendes she has looked noticeably more svelte.
GQ editor Dylan Jones, who conducted the interview, admitted Winslet had been "digitally altered" in the pictures, but no more than any other cover star.
He said: "These days you only get two kinds of pictures of celebrities - paparazzi pictures or pictures like these which have been highly styled, buffed, trimmed and altered to make the subject look as good as is humanly possible.
"We do that for everyone, whether they are a size six or a size 12. It hasn't a lot to do with body size. Practically every photo you see in a magazine will have been digitally altered in this way."
But he insisted that Winslet had not been drastically slimmed down in the photos.
we do.
She looks like a giraffe.
sure she looks great skinny, but hell that ain't her body. do y'all remember that Paula Abdul video were they stretched out her body so that she would appear slim on the screen? 
And you are!
that stomach is so obviously "digitally manipulated" it's hilarious. No one's stomach is a perfect straight line - even the super skinny people.
Guess I should read the full thread before posting. 
