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Most leading actresses think airbrushing is the Promised not to airbrush her for their poster
{Seal way to maintain the ilusion of perfect looks. campaign
Kate Winslet does not agree. Kate is clearly extremely comfortable with the
Kate is an Oscar-winning movie actress and way she looks and likes being normal. ‘I'm not
celebrated beauty. She first came to fame when perfect she sists, ‘and I don’t want to be seen as.
she starred in the film Titanic opposite Leonardo fomesne mrann't hate the idea that women in
iCaprio. 1) .H. But Kate believes that today's films are perfect because they have some kind of
giving us a totally false idea of what a secret beauty that nobody else has. 3)... The |
normal woman should look like. This is why, unlike reason that Yonen cr films are perfect is because _|
most other celebrities, she refuses to let anyone we've alllbecn through three-and-a-half hours of
touch up her photos to remove wrinkles, to zap hair and make-up!’
Spots, to make her legs look longer or for any Kate grew up in a town not far from London. Both
‘other reason. her parents were actors. Times were hard but
Kate's fight against airbrushing is Pretty unique in although there wasn't much money around, there
the cosmetics industry. Here, perfecting a model's was plenty of love. 4) ..... Other kids at school
image by artifical means is common practice. 2)....A_ wanted te be air hostesses or hairdressers but
few years ago she threatened to sue a magazine that acting was the only career she could contemplate.
used digital imaging to make her look younger. And She wasn't star-struck or over-assertive, She just
when she agreed to model fora knew what she wanted to do.
Perfume company, it was only on It was while making the film Titanic that Kate
Condition that the company became aware of another Hollywood hang-up ~
Ss body shape. 5)..... She didn’t agree. She’s not
skinny, of course, but she’s not fat either — just
naturally curvy with broad shoulders.
‘I didn’t think | was overweight at alll’ she says. ‘I
mean | know I'll never be a ‘Stick, but in order for me
to be really thin, | mustn’t eat anything ~ and I'm not
Prepared to do that. I've always just been myself, and
| thought | looked OK, But all of a sudden people
were talking about my body image .. something
'd never even thought about
oy before. 6)..... And at
SS last | realised that it
{fle was them!’
Kate thinks it's wrong for
women to be forced to conform to an
image that is unrealistic and unhealthy. And
she is convinced that men don’t like ultra-skinny,
bony women anyway. Her decision to speak
Out on such matters surprised a lot of people
in the celebrity world, but Kate doesn’t care
about that. 7)..... That's why she
has become a perfact role model
to thousands of women who want
to look good without becoming
stick thin‘Adjectives (no nogative forms)
careful
© Complete the sentences with a noun or adjective from
Exercise 1.
41 Wearing a baseball cap back to front may be considered