Monday, December 11, 2006
Kate, Mavourneen
- Winslet Slams 'Ultra-Thin' Glamorization
December 10,2006 | LONDON -- Hollywood star Kate Winslet finds the glamorization of ultra-thin "size zero" models and actresses "unbelievably disturbing" and says she keeps magazines featuring such women away from her 6-year-old daughter.
"It's so disturbing because young girls are impressionable from 11 up to 19 or 20 even. Women are very impressionable at those ages," Winslet told British Broadcasting Corp. television's "Sunday AM" program.
"They're trying to figure out who they are, and they want to be loved, and what I resent is that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner, and it's truly upsetting to me."
Who's behind this weird trend, anyway? Are there really people out there who are attracted to skeletal women? Frankly, they give us the willies.
Aren't women supposed to look like, you know, women?
