Skinny VS Curvy

Halle Berry (43) and Kate Winslet (34) both looked fabulous at the Golden Globes last night, both rocking figure-hugging black dresses, with extra cleavage on Halle’s side.

How do you like these slim & curvy ladies on this red carpet occasion?

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Kate Winslet Has the Most Desirable Body… says a new British poll. In case you missed it, Angelina is “The Beauty Icon of the Decade” and Megan fox is “The Sexiest” – we’ve got lots of polls these days!

Who else made the list?

The Top Ten “Desired” Bodies:
1. Kate Winslet – 16%
2. Kelly Brook – 15%
3. Halle Berry – 12%
4. Cheryl Cole – 10%
5. Beyonce – 6%
6. Megan Fox – 5%
7. Lily Allen – 4%
8. Keeley Hazell – 2%
9. Kate Moss – 1%
10. Katie Price – 1%
11. Victoria Beckham – 1%

Details from Daily Mail:

A survey has found that a fuller, curvy figures such as those belonging to Kate Winslet or Kelly Brook are back in fashion among women. Meanwhile, skeletal stars such as Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss have fallen out of favour, along with the surgically enhanced figure of Katie Price, aka glamour model Jordan.

Oscar winner Miss Winslet, 34 – who served sausages and mash at her first wedding and has spoken openly of the effects of motherhood on her body – topped the poll of 2,000 woman aged 18 or over, with 16 per cent of the votes.

Dr Jacquie Lavin, head of nutrition at Slimming World, which commissioned the YouGov poll, said: ‘It shows a positive shift that women are more likely to see Kate Winslet and Kelly Brook as the ideal body shape rather than Kate Moss or Victoria Beckham. It perhaps suggests that it is not being “skinny” that is most important to them anymore, it is being healthy. However, there still remains a great deal of pressure on women to conform to an unrealistic ideal and our survey showed that a massive 85 per cent of women are at least occasionally unhappy with their weight.’

So what do you guys think of this one?

Kate Winslet showed up at the 2009 Bambi Awards in Potsdam, Germany yesterday and she walked the red carpet in a long black dress.

Looking good! How are you liking her look on this occasion?

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… and the title refers to her weight. I know, this is the 759th time Kate is talking about her figure – this time it’s in Harper’s Bazaar.

Here are some parts you might find interesting:

Kate hasn’t really gone all shy and retiring on the red carpet. After years of wearing long, she’s more recently taken a short cut — sporting, among others, a curve-loving Hervé Léger and a racy Balmain number. (She’s still legging it today, perched on the couch in a gold Calypso minidress.) “I danced a lot when I was younger, and I’ve always had decent, shapely legs and thought it’s now or never,” she says. “I mean, when you’re pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that’s midthigh length? So I thought, Oh, f-ck it, I’m just going to do it.”

And so began the thousandth round of Kate Winslet body speculation. “I’ve heard, ‘Oh, she’s toned and she’s lost weight,’ but I am exactly the same as I’ve always been. The one thing that had to go during awards season was exercise. People would say to me, ‘Oh, come on …’ like I was lying about it!” The topic clearly fatigues her. “Some may find it hard to believe it, but I don’t care about that stuff.”

But Oprah Winfrey does, as she proclaimed gloriously to the world when Kate was on her show promoting The Reader — in which her character, former Nazi guard Hanna Schmitz, is often naked — “God bless your real breasts!” Kate shrugs and says, “I’m used to people openly discussing my t-ts. If people are noticing my boobs in a movie and saying they do what real boobs do, then that’s great.” But, like her legs, the boobs have a shelf life. “I’ll be 34 in October. I can’t keep getting away with it. There was so much of it in The Reader because the story required it, but people have seen enough of my bum and my boobs. I have to put them back.”

Sure, Kate has an Oscar, a lauded husband, and two fetching children (Mia, 8, and Joe, 5), but she’s not Gisele. She’s one of us … ish. “Part of the reason Lancôme asked me [to represent the brand] was because I come across as a woman other women can identify with. The media plays such a big role in how women measure themselves against other women, so I can be in a position where I can say beauty comes from within, we’re not all perfect, and the covers of magazines are of course retouched. We do not look like that.” She points to her forehead. “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.’”

Here’s part of the interview from Marie Clarie:

British Oscar winner Kate Winslet has revealed exclusively to Marie Claire magazine that she was bullied as a child and lived with the nickname ‘Blubber’.

‘I was bullied for being chubby. Where are they now!’ she jokes.

Despite her runaway success this year, winning her long-awaited Oscar for best actress for her role in The Reader, Winslet admits: ‘Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.’

She is, however, at peace with her looks, having come to terms with her body as she has got older. ‘I don’t mind the way I’m ageing… I think I look my age, and that’s fine.

‘I don’t think I look younger than 33 and I don’t think I look particularly older than 33. I think I’m sort of holding it together.’

As the face of Lancôme’s Trésor fragrance, Winslet has used her status to be an outspoken advocate of real-sized women: ‘I do think it’s important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don’t really look like that. In my films I might look glamorous, but I’ve been in hair and make-up for two hours.’

During filming for the award-winning The Reader, Winslet even confessed to wearing body make-up for her nudity scenes. ‘With the nudity in The Reader, for example, even I was like, “Damn, I look good.” And that was the lighting – it was a bit of body make-up. I don’t believe in pretending those things don’t go on.’