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Your Life: CELEBRITY BODIES - Simple Secret of Kate's Sexy New Shape.. ; ACTRESS KATE WINSLET HAS SHOWN OFF HER TRIM NEW FIGURE.. BUT SHE INSISTS SHE DIDN't GO ON A DIET TO LOSE WEIGHT

Posted on: Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 12:00 CDT

HER skin glows and her newly highlighted hair has a silky sheen. But what's most striking about Kate Winslet at her latest premiere is her svelte, size-eight figure.

At 29, not-so-Titanic actress Kate exudes confidence from every pore. Gone are the lacklustre locks and self-conscious body language. Now, she looks every inch the Hollywood movie star.

But Kate insists she hasn't lost any weight and puts her latest look down to regaining her pre-pregnancy figure after having Joe in December.

"I had a baby and now I'm back to normal," she said, at the London premiere of Finding Neverland at the weekend. "People always tell me I've lost weight but this is just me."

She may try to play down her latest look but, as with many women, the star has a history of yo-yo dieting which, because of her high profile, has been well documented.

A naturally plump girl, Kate was teased at school and nicknamed Blubber. Yet when she was 19, she was anorexic for six months and her weight had plummeted to eight stone.

It was a desperate bid to attain what she perceived as the perfect Hollywood shape. Even as she started getting film roles, she was eating nothing but apples and raw carrots and drinking black coffee.

"For a while, I couldn't eat at all and felt faint and tired," she recalled. "I was so unhappy. I'd wake up every morning, look in the mirror and think: 'Oh, my bum looks too big. Oh, my face is fat.'"

She credited her first husband, Jim Threapleton, for giving her the confidence to accept her body, whatever its shape, and flew the flag for curvier women in the film industry.

In 1999, she even attacked society's demands for "stick insect" people. "They can say I'm fat," she said. "I'll never be a stick insect and I wouldn't want to be either."

Reality bit when 5ft 6ins Kate gave birth to her daughter Mia in 2000 and admitted "despising" herself when she went on a diet to land roles.

"I wave the flag of 'don't go on diets because they're rubbish' but I'd like to get a bit of baby weight off or I won't work," she admitted.

She lost four stone and dropped to nine-and-a-half stone after seeking advice from celebrity nutritionist Elizabeth Gibaud, whose facial analysis diet she endorses.

It involved a four-week detox with no fatty foods or alcohol and very little sugar, wheat and dairy products. It's complemented with gym work, swimming and Pilates.

Speaking of her weight-gain, Kate said: "People tell you the weight drops off after you have a baby but it doesn't. I thought I'd be able to wear my leather trousers again after Mia and I cried when they wouldn't go past my calves.

"My bottom looked like purple broccoli and my other body parts resembled squashes. How can you feel sexy when you look like the back end of a bus?"

Kate admitted that she had been cynical about facial analysis but said: "I was given an eating plan and the weight dropped off. I've never felt better."

In January 2003, an airbrushed image of Kate on the cover of GQ magazine caused uproar because, although it was done without Kate's approval, it appeared to undermine her attempts to look natural.

In the accompanying interview, Kate had said: "All the men I've ever spoken to like girls to have an arse on them. So why is it that women think in order to be adored they have to be thin? I'm certainly not a sex symbol who doesn't eat."

More recently, she has hammered the point home, insisting she is "completely physically comfortable with who I am".

And love may well have a lot to do with it. Months after embarking on her diet, she left Threapleton and, five months later, met husband Sam Mendes. They married last year.

Revealing her feelings for the Hollywood director two months ago, she said: "I wouldn't care if you were the man who delivered the papers or the guy who brought in the groceries, I'd still love you."

Whether that's truly the case is open to debate but there's no doubting Kate's current contentment. You only have to look at her...

OTHER CELEB SLIMMERS

GERI HALLIWELL

IT'S hard to believe gorgeous and curvy Geri looked so emaciated three years ago.

The 5ft 2ins star, who at nine stone is now a curvy size 12, suffered from bulimia and anorexia early in life.

While in the Spice Girls she existed mainly on boiled carrots and noodles but gained a stone shortly before leaving in 1998.

Geri, now 32, later dropped to 7st thanks to yoga, but her weight became dangerously low on a regime including six-mile runs and eating only veg and chicken.

But she said recently: "I feel sexier with a little bit more flesh on my bones."RENEE ZELLWEGER

RENEE piled on the pounds for the first instalment of Bridget Jones's Diary and rocketed from a size eight to a size 14.

She quickly returned to her ideal weight of seven-and-a-half stone on a crash diet and exercise plan so that she could look right for her role in Chicago.

At the time Renee, now 35, said: "There's no way I'm going to put all that weight on again."

But when she was offered millions to return as Bridget in The Edge Of Reason she temporarily returned to being a size 14 yet again, before shrinking back to her diminutive size.

Facial analysis diet

NUTRITIONIST Elizabeth Gibaud devised the practice in which food intolerances and vitamin and mineral deficiencies are diagnosed by looking at the lines, pores and shadows on a person's face.

It works by matching your face to six different types she has identified.

Type As, for example, have bulging eyes, a shiny tip to their nose and dull or fluffy hair. Type Bs' skin has a yellow tinge, they are ruled by the liver and have a desire for sugar and sweet foods.

Type Cs tend to retain water and their diet should be high in steamed vegetables and salads and low in red meat and fish.

Type Ds are prone to rheumatism or arthritis while Type Cs, who have white circles under the eyes, are intolerant to dairy products. Poor diet and stress can cause them skin problems.

Type F applies to men affected by the prostate gland who should avoid beer, coffee, pepper and soy sauce.

Source: Daily Mirror

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