Kate Winslet is made of win.

[eruthros]

Look, y'all! She went after a paper for basically claiming that she wasn't really interested in healthy body weight, she just couldn't lose weight. And they settled. And she donated money to an eating disorder charity. Made of win.

I had this whole weird conversation with folks at this years' Oscar party, in which people insisted Jennifer Hudson "had to" be bigger than a size twelve. (Me: Um, she's standing next to Beyonce. And: that's how Hollywood makes women think normal-sized women are huge. One of them: no, that's got to be just her PR people trying to minimize her size, she's way bigger than a size twelve. OH MY GOD. Right. It's all about the PR people trying to make you seem skinnier, and that's normal for a woman that you just praised as being "one of the only big women in Hollywood.") And who had never heard the Kate Winslet Titanic story. And some of them insisted that she "couldn't possibly be big for Hollywood" (when she was standing on her own), and others that she was "way bigger than a size eight" and was "kind of huge in Titanic" (when she was standing next to other people).

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[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

WTF? Can't be a size whatever?

Like, who cares? Can she act? Is she attractive? ::shakes head:: Weird.

[eruthros]

I know! It was -- like, they brought it up, because they wanted to talk about how "wonderful" it was that Hollywood was finally open to "big" women -- but then they wanted to talk about how she was "just huge." And not about her acting. PAH.

[redphotoframe.livejournal.com]

kind of ironic that she named her daughter "mia"

[eruthros]

Ironic how? *clueless*

[redphotoframe.livejournal.com]

oh, that's slang for bulemia, like ana is slang for anorexic :/

[cereta.livejournal.com]

I will just never understand how Kate Winslet being a size 6-8 is...anything. Have they not seen pictures of her?

[eruthros]

Right! And that's my thing: what I like about her is the fact that she didn't take that shit, you know? She didn't let people convince her that she had to lose weight or she'd never work in Hollywood again. It's an attitude.

But apparently what some people like about her is that she's "big" and thus proves that "big women can succeed in Hollywood." Like, if that's big, then you've already got the wrong attitude, you know? Hollywood is already winning.

[fiatlouis.livejournal.com]

You need some new Oscar party friends.
And for the record? We were doing "Top 5 hotties" lists in the car today, and Kate Winslet was number one on mine, and just missed the top 5 in one of the high school girls' lists. She's yummy. And size 8 doesn't sound very big to me, but I guess my sense of size has been perverted by not reading enough fashion magazines and hanging out with too many real people.