People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People
May 6, 1996
Kate
Winslet
The most important
beauty tip Kate Winslet ever received, she says, came from her mum. "She
said if I ever start to get the family whiskers--because there are women
in my family that do get them--never, ever pluck! Always trim. And a makeup-artist
friend told me that when I get a spot, don't squeeze! And if you must squeeze,
it's essential to exfoliate." The 20-year-old actress keeps her toilette
simple--with two exceptions. "My most prized possession is my pair of eyelash
curlers, which I wouldn't sell to anyone," she says. Neither would she
give up her dozens of pairs of funky boots, "because they mean that my
feet are on the ground. Besides, I can't bear pathetic little shoes." That
kind of spunk, says Richard Briers, who plays Polonius to her Ophelia in
Kenneth Branagh's forthcoming Hamlet, reflects Winslet's "bloom of youth."
As the fragile Marianne in Sense and Sensibility, the 119-lb.Winslet was
compared to a Pre-Raphaelite maiden in the British press, but as a Reading,
England, teenager tipping the scales at 185, she better resembled the chunky
cherubs painted by Rubens. "For a good two or three years my nickname was
Blubber," she says. "Being overweight is a family trait too. But I knew
that I wouldn't work if I stayed that way."
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