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Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Kate Winslet

posted by Women & Hollywood
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 5:46pm EST

Winslet just won $40,000 in damages from the Daily Mail which said she lied about her exercise regime.

Just so bizarre. Why does anyone care what her exercise regime is. Seems to me that these papers are finally getting caught out for lying when people fight back and say no more.

Here’s part of Winslet’s statement today:

“I strongly believe that women should be encouraged to accept themselves as they are, so to suggest that I was lying was an unacceptable accusation of hypocrisy.”

Hope she donates the money to organizations that helps work with girls on body image issues.

Kate Winslet accepts £25,000 libel damages from Daily Mail (The Guardian)