Kate Winslet exposed intimate details about her private life after a fan confessed that she had lost interest in intimacy and asked for the actress’s advice. The exchange took place during a “How to Fail” podcast, in which the British star was a guest. The fan told Winslet that she lost interest in getting close to her partner after gaining weight, and Winslet replied, saying most women don’t realize that they have testosterone in their bodies, and when this fades or reduces with age, they lose the desire for intimacy.
“Once it’s gone, you have to replace it, and that is something that can be done, and you’ll feel sexy again,” the actress said before adding, “I know.” Ms. Winslet married her husband, Edward Abel Smith, in 2012. Smith is her third husband. She married first in 1998 at age 23, had a daughter two years later, and divorced a year after that. Her second marriage was to film director Sam Mendes in 2003. They had a son but divorced after seven years.
The British actress has made numerous media appearances recently as her new movie, Lee, is set to hit theaters. Winslet plays US photographer Elizabeth “Lee” Miller, who deployed with American forces in World War Two to record events in Europe on camera. One of just four US women to work as a war photographer at the time, Lee accompanied American troops into Germany, and among the things she witnessed were the first discoveries of Nazi death camps and the unfolding reality of the Holocaust.
In a recent interview, Winslet addressed the sudden global fame she experienced after starring in Titanic alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in 1997. She said it was not a pleasant experience. Many people considered the actress too heavy and plain-looking for such a major role, and some stated that her weight was the reason DiCaprio’s character, Jack, was unable to save himself by climbing onto a floating door toward the end of the movie.
Winslet said if she could go back to that period, she would challenge the journalists and the criticisms. She would have told them not to “dare” treating her like that because she was a young woman with insecurities. “I wasn’t even f***ing fat,” she added.
