However, the Oscar winner didn’t reach this level of her self-love journey overnight. Kate noted that after she found success in 1997’s Titanic, she dealt with “relentless bullying” from the media over her appearance.
“I wasn’t ready to be a famous actress,” she recalled. “I was so young, but I felt so invaded. Nothing was nice. People climbed into my garden. I couldn’t go to a shop. I was followed when I had a baby in the back of the car on my way to the pediatrician. It is abnormal.”
This isn’t the first time Kate has opened up about her experience with internalizing harmful beauty standards. In fact, she previously called out the industry’s habit of using odd language when discussing different body types.
“All I’ve ever done is be a woman with an opinion. Curves? Just call it a normal body that isn’t honed and toned within an inch of its life,” she told Vogue Australia last September. “Not wearing make-up on screen? That’s not brave. I am an actor. I love my job. I’m bloody lucky to do it. I’m not on the frontline. But let’s come up with some other words like ‘relief’ at seeing normal women feeling joyful on screen.”
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