Winslet struggled with weight as a child

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Kate Winslet has revealed that she never chased fame because she was overweight as a child.

The actress spoke out on her body image in an interview with Vanity Fair, for which she was photographed nude.

Winslet, 33, said she was nicknamed 'Blubber' for being plump as a youngster.

"I never had huge ambitions - never. I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses. I just did not see myself in that world at all, and I'm being very sincere," she said.

"You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that."

The star's publicist said her body was not airbrushed in the nude photos, although some "skin tone correction" had taken place.

Winslet famously objected to a GQ magazine shot in which her image was manipulated to appear thinner and taller. "The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly I don't desire to look like that," she was quoted as saying at the time.