Today is Kate Winslet's 37th birthday! Much like the other birthday we celebrated this week, Winslet is a British actress, specifically one who has been called "the best English-speaking film actress of her generation," and not just by me.
We fell in love with Kate Winslet when she appeared as Rose in the hugely successful Titanic. Since then we've seen her go on to acquire 6 Academy Award nominations, becoming the youngest person to do so when she received a Best Actress nomination for The Reader. She went on to win that award, her first and so far only win at the Oscars.
Winslet is more than just an amazing actress though, and has been active in autism awareness through the Golden Hat Foundation and has also campaigned with PETA. One of the reasons that I've always loved her, however, is the fact that she's never allowed her weight to be dictated by Hollywood. I love how she was not the skinniest person when she appeared naked in Titanic, and yet appeared naked anyways. Too often female celebrities appear to starve themselves in order to fit into some idea of beauty, Winslet shows that you can be gorgeous and still eat foot.
I've begun to ramble, so I'm going to wrap this up. Happy birthday, Kate Winslet!
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