Kate Winslet Reveals She Used To Be "Deeply Insecure" On The Red Carpet And Criticizes The Way Journalists Talk About Women's Bodies

From Titanic to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to Avatar 2, Kate Winslet has had her fair share of the spotlight over the years. We know her as a tremendous actress who won an Oscar for her 2009 role in The Reader, but she's also a mother of three who is fiercely protective of her children, who are not allowed on social media. In a recent interview on Happy Sad Confused with Josh Horowitz, Kate opened up about how insecure she once felt as a younger woman on the red carpet.

Kate Winslet Reveals She Used to Be "Deeply Insecure" on the Red Carpet and Sends an Urgent Message to the Press

Kate Winslet is as outspoken as you might expect her to be in interviews about various issues relating to women, parenthood, and the press. While we see her as a beautiful actress who looks flawless and confident on the red carpet, she admits that she wasn't always so secure in herself. She told Josh Horowitz that she wishes she had told journalists a very specific message in her younger years in order to protect herself.

"If I could turn back the clock, I would have used my voice in a completely different way," she says. "I would've said to journalists, 'Don't you dare treat me like this, I'm a young woman. My body is changing. I'm figuring it out. I'm deeply insecure. I'm terrified. Don't make this any harder than it already is.'"

Women have a hard enough time with self-esteem and confidence when they're in their younger years, even more so when you have to walk a red carpet in front of hundreds of cameras that are saving images to publish and criticize in the press. There are countless headlines that pick apart the way women look, whether it's positive or negative, and Kate has had enough of it.

"That's bullying and actually borderline abusive, I would say," she adds. "But also it's getting better. But we've still got such a ways to go."

"Even if an actress walks out on a red carpet and happens to look amazing in whatever she's wearing, the fact that people will say 'Looks honed and toned' or a dreadful word 'svelte,'" she says. "Don't even say it! It's such an irresponsible thing to do and it feeds directly into young women aspiring to ideas of perfection that don't exist, aspiring to have bodies that the press is saying that we have."

While we may watch the award shows and think about how glamorous their lives are, Kate wants everyone to know that it's just a moment of stardom and then it ends abruptly. It actually ends a lot sooner than you might think it does.

"It's for one night and one night only that we're in that damn dress and believe you me, mine comes straight off the second I'm in the car on the way home and I'm in my pajamas, eating chips and farting," she says. "That's what we do!"

It can be hard to believe, but the celebrities who walk the red carpet face as many insecurities as the rest of us might if we were put in those situations. It doesn't matter how beautiful or glamorous we think they look at award shows; there will always be a little voice in the back of their minds that may make them feel insecure or unsure, even if for a moment.