Kate Winslet: Cosmetic surgery goes against my morals

Kate Winslet, the Hollywood star, says she will 'never give in' to pressure to go under the surgeon's knife.

Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road
Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road Credit: Photo: DREAMWORKS

Proud of her natural curves, Kate Winslet has declared that she will never give in to Hollywood pressure to undergo cosmetic surgery.

“It goes against my morals, the way that my parents brought me up and what I consider to be natural beauty," says the 35-year-old star of Titanic. “I will never give in.”

Winslet, who is the daughter of “jobbing actors” from Berkshire, adds: “I am an actress, I don’t want to freeze the expression of my face.”

Her comments echo those by her Oscar-winning friend Emma Thompson, to whom she has been close since they appeared together in Sense and Sensibility in 1995.

“I’m not fiddling about with myself,” said Thompson, 52. “We’re in this awful youth-driven thing now where everybody needs to look 30 at 60.”

Rachel Weisz, 41, who won an Oscar for her role in The Constant Gardener, said: “People who look too perfect don’t look sexy or particularly beautiful.”

However, Gwyneth Paltrow, the American actress, who lives in London with her husband, the Coldplay singer Chris Martin, says she would consider surgery on her breasts.

“I still refuse to use silicone, Botox or any other of those gimmicks of pure vanity, but a breast correction after breast feeding – why not?" she says. "There’s actually nothing else to restore the original condition, is there?”