JusticiaKate Winslet to Sue over Diet Claims
February 13th 2007 00:47
Kate Winslet is furiously denying a British magazine's claims that she has been seeing a diet specialist in Los Angeles.
The allegations, which were printed in the glossy magazine Grazia, are "completely untrue," Winslet told reporters on the red carpet at the BAFTA awards in London on Sunday. Last week, Grazia printed a story alleging that the actress visited the Chinese Healing Institute in Santa Monica to help with neck pain, and also to lose weight.
"I'm going to fight for myself. I don't want people thinking that I would ever go to a diet doctor, I would ever buy into that stuff," Winslet, who is nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role in Little Children, told a BBC radio interviewer. "I never have done, I never will. I will continue to say what I feel about this issue of women being thin and emaciated. It's just out of control," she said Sunday. "I know I'm a role model to young women. It's a role that I take very, very seriously and I would never want anyone to ever think I was a hypocrite in doing something like going to a diet doctor, for goodness sake. I mean, it's really, really ridiculous."
In 2005, Winslet told PEOPLE for the annual Most Beautiful issue, "I know that I have a real woman's figure. It's nice that it's acknowledged and appreciated, that I refuse to conform. I don't starve myself."
On Monday, Grazia issued a statement saying, "The matter is in the hands of our lawyers and not something on which Grazia wishes to comment at the moment."
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