Kate Winslet says she is pleased with her nude scenes for a new movie, despite getting nervy.

The actress is currently making independent film Little Children, which requires her to appear naked and in a swimming costume.

Although she has taken her clothes off on screen before, she was concerned about her aging body. "If you had said to me 15 years ago `When you are nearly 30 and you've had two children, you're going to be doing some very explicit sex scenes and you're going to spend a week in a bathing suit,'" she explained. "I swear to God, that literally would have been my worst nightmare."

"But I got to a point where I thought, `For God's sake, screw it. I'm always gallivanting around the place, going, `Be who you are, be who you are.' I should just get over myself and get on with it, and I did."

Winslet is glad she took the risk. "The bathing suit was actually a fabulous red halterneck," she added, "and I was very pleased with myself, frankly, after I got through that."