Kate Winslet Forms 'British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League'

Plenty of celebrities go under the knife, but Kate Winslet is not one of them.

The 35-year-old actress told the Telegraph that she has formed a “British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League”, vowing to never undergo plastic surgery and enlisting her pals Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz for the cause.

“I will never give in,” Winslet told the British newspaper. “[Cosmetic surgery] goes against my morals, the way that my parents brought me up and what I consider to be natural beauty.”

“I am an actress," added Winslet, "I don’t want to freeze the expression of my face.”

This is not the first time the Oscar-winning star has sounded off on the topics of body image. Kate was famously over-airbrushed in a 2003 issue of GQ, angering the star. "The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly I don't desire to look like that," she told Hello! that January.

She later sounded off to Harper's Bazaar in July, 2009:

"I have wrinkles here, which are very evident, and I will particularly say when I look at movie posters, 'You guys have airbrushed my forehead. Please can you change it back?' I'd rather be the woman they're saying 'She's looking older' about than 'She's looking stoned.'"

For someone so passionate about being portrayed au natural, it's no surprise that plastic surgery is a non-option. Winslet's high-profile friends agree, as 52-year-old Thompson told the Telegraph, "I'm not fiddling about with myself," she said, "We're in this awful youth-driven thing now where everybody needs to look 30 at 60."

Now Winslet and Thompson as well as Rachel Weisz have made it official: no more fiddling. But they may find it hard to recruit other celebrity members... current London-dweller Gwyneth Paltrow will certainly not qualify.

Read more of the Telegraph's chat with Kate here.

Comments

[LMPE]

06:44 PM on 08/21/2011

That's the spirit!

[littlebrowngirl]

06:05 PM on 08/20/2011

Good for them. They certanly do not need it.

[24InMyMind]

05:24 PM on 08/20/2011

I have a problem with actresses that have personal chefs and trainers, and never have a photo that's not air-brushed, telling the rest of us how "courageous" they are in not having plastic surgery. I happen to live a real life, had real wrinkles in my forehead, and had Botox (paid for by working an extra job) because I wanted to. Whatever.

[Teresa Arthur]

01:32 PM on 08/20/2011

Please have her contact me and I will let her know what it is like to 1) grow up as flat-chested as a boy ! and 2) trying to get a JOB in this economy (depression), having been unemployed for more than 2 yrs., at FIFTY-TWO (will be 53 in Oct.) !!!!!!!! *IF* you actually get a face-to-face interview - GOOD LUCK ! They know they can get someone 25+ yrs. younger than you - easily !!!!

I am lucky enough to have been 'very attractive' all of my life and look younger than my peers ... BUT, the saying is still true "Men are discriminated against at 45 - women at 35" !!!

So - seriously - you 'stars with money' ... come talk to women like ME before you get up on your soapboxes about cosmetic surgery, OK ?!?!?!?

Teresa Arthur in Tulsa, OK (you may post my name!)

[detalumis]

08:13 AM on 08/26/2011

Actually actresses will have trouble getting roles over 45 or so even with full cosmetic surgery and no wrinkles - at least not the kind they are used to e.g. Sharon Stone. They will get to play grannies or the Queen and such but will never be cast as a leading romantic lead. I am sure she will still get roles they will just be the Helen Mirren kind and she likely will be okay with that. It's the so-so actresses that relied mainly on their looks who disappear off the radar.

The problem with being 52 (I am 50) is that no matter how good you look you will be discriminated against for employment, age is one of the last acceptable workplace biases. Even if you look 10 years younger it's really not good enough unless you are say a doctor, lawyer or really high flying executive.

[oftenon]

08:54 PM on 08/19/2011

Beautiful women all, inside and out. We supposedly earn the faces we own and what do you end up owning if you buy a mask?

[iamjones]

05:37 PM on 08/19/2011

I think this is fabulous and that Kate is incredibly beautiful. However, I gotta say I understand the women who want to get surgery. Before women turn 40, they won't really "get it", trust me. I am 43 and have zero plans to ever have any surgery...I take really good care of myself and it shows! But I also used to say I'd never color my hair....that is, until I started turning grey! I wasn't ready to go grey in my late 30s - yikes! - and now that I color regularly, I don't see it as such a big deal. I can totally understand women who wrap up so much of their self worth in their looks, panic when some real wrinkles start to show up. Keep it natural, Ladies!

[Pasavo22]

10:42 PM on 08/18/2011

Hmmm! Well, I applaud the idea, however, I have known many actresses AND actors here in Hollywood who started out with the same idea BUT somewhere along the way as the wrinkles became more pronounced they ended up having at least SOME cosmetic surgery. Even George Clooney has had some! If they are lead actors/actresses as opposed to "character actors" they will learn that the public does NOT want them to look like their next-door neighbors!! People do not want to pay $10 for that.

[hypple]

05:14 PM on 08/18/2011

So sad that this group wasn't formed years ago here in the states.

So many of our lovely actresses here look like horrid wax figurines of their former selves.

[Kathryn LaRiviere]

02:15 PM on 08/18/2011

I agree with Kate 100% I will always support her. She is the best actress working today. I hope to join her group here in the states.

[lauratxga]

02:13 PM on 08/18/2011

Oh Please................... I haven't heard as big a load of poop since Obama last opened his mouth. They will continue going under the knife and getting everything sucked out and realigned while saying they have great genes and would never ever have surgery. Of course they do and will continue to have surgery as their body and face are their moneymakers.

[gemini68]

03:58 PM on 08/18/2011

Have you seen Kate Winslet? She has wrinkles and looks her age. But she is beautiful. The same for Rachel Weisz- and what makes them beautiful is that they don't look plastic. They look like themselves and have grown older gracefully. These are two of my favorite actresses and this only makes me love them more.

[gemini68]

04:28 PM on 08/18/2011

For some reason my first post wasn't published so I will try again: Kate Winslet has very obviously not had any work done: she has laugh lines and her forehead actually moves. The same goes for Rachel Wiesz and Emma Thompson.

[rorysmom]

02:11 PM on 08/18/2011

Who cares? Winslet comes out with this rhetoric every few months so she'll stay in the news and people will remember her.

[Erin7373]

07:38 PM on 08/18/2011

I would rather it be in this fashion than having to bear witness to most females attempt's to stay relevent.

[rorysmom]

08:05 PM on 08/18/2011

Good point Erin7373! I hadn't thought about it that way.

[Lisa1129]

01:27 PM on 08/18/2011

They`re against plastic surgery like the devil is against sin. wait until
everything starts to sag, you will change your mind.

[avercos]

01:00 PM on 08/18/2011

Ooops.. sorry that went in the wrong post.

[avercos]

12:59 PM on 08/18/2011

He is always on vacation. He took a week off for his birthday party, then golfing (again -- I think he wants to join the PGA when he retires), then the "bus trip", and now Martha's Vineyard. ALL AT TAX PAYER EXPENSE!! He is sooo out of touch with the average American who is having trouble putting food on their tables. But what does he care, when he "retires", which would mean that he actually at some point worked, he will have all his ENTITLEMENTS for the rest of his life. Full pay, full health, security, etc., again all at the expense of the taxpayers. Typical politician -- they are nothing more than glorified welfare receipents.

[LMPE]

06:45 PM on 08/21/2011

Wrong article.

[Curtice Engelman]

12:58 PM on 08/18/2011

Actors emote. It is the crucial element of their job. Frozen faces can't emote. I think of Jessica Tandy, Bette Davis. Still love to watch their work, and the older they got, the better they were-and they were brilliant to begin with!