Freddie Baez/startraksphoto.comKate Winslet has always been comfortable in her own skin. Unfortunately, one of Britain's tabloids isn't quite as accepting.
The Oscar winner has filed a libel suit against the Daily Mail, seeking roughly $225,000 over an article claiming she had lied about her fitness regime.
Per papers filed in London's High Court (where judge's tend to be more sympathetic than their U.S. counterparts to slighted celebrities), lawyers for the 33-year-old star said that the January article, titled "Should Kate Winslet Win an Oscar for the World's Most Irritating Actress?," left her "distressed and embarrassed" and "injured her personal and professional reputation."
"[Winslet] was particularly upset by what she regarded as the very unpleasant and nasty way in which the article was written," according to her April legal filing.
In particular, the tabloid questioned a quote Winslet had given to Elle. "I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home," Winslet told the magazine.
The Mail article, which has since been removed from the newspaper's website, accused the star of being less than honest about her fitness regime, saying she "has become, in my opinion, as drippy and as impossibly vain as the rest of them," and took particular exception with Winslet's claims that she's happy with her normal body when, the tabloid writer claimed, she had slimmed down to a more typical Hollywood size.
"She caught a nasty dose of Hollywooditis. It happens to the best of them, of course it does," Liz Jones wrote.
"It is the duplicitousness that enrages me and most other women I have spoken to."
Winslet is seeking to prevent the tabloid from reprinting the claims, though the paper has so far refused to agree to the ban.
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