Winslet joins battle against skinny stars

Kate Winslet has added her voice to the chorus of criticism of the celebrity world's obsession with being thin.

The Titanic star declared that she is pleased with her body and disgusted by Hollywood's focus on weight.

"This skinny thing, it angers me so much," she explained in an interview with OK Weekly magazine. "It disturbs me. In our house, we don't talk about weight, we don't talk about body image.

"I don't understand the fascination with it. The interest in certain people, like Nicole Ritchie, in regards to weight, is incredible, and it's a mystery to me."

The mother-of-two added that she was glad she had managed to resist pressure to change her appearance. "Now, more than ever, I feel this tremendous sense of staying the same shape and saying 'Look! I get pimples too'," she explained. "I'm lucky in the sense that I've never been particularly vain.

"In the past, people have been a little unkind when it comes to discussing my weight, but I realise it's them, not me. I'm happy with my shape and size; I work out when I get the time. I accepted a long time ago that I wasn't going to be able to wear skinny jeans. I'm fine with that."