I'm to blame for weight obsession - Winslet

Actress Kate Winslet today admitted she was to blame for sparking the media obsession with her weight.

The Iris star said she first raised the issue of her size with journalists.

“The reality is, maybe all this focus on me and my figure ... is my own fault,” she told the New York Post.

Winslet, 27, said she realised the pressures on actresses to be slim while filming Titanic.

“I thought ’Isn’t that insane?’ So I just came out in an interview and said: ’Look, I’m doing well at the thing that I love doing and I’m not starving myself’.

“And from then on, it has plagued me.”

Winslet was furious after GQ recently airbrushed an image of her on the magazine’s front cover.

“I’m not six foot tall, for God’s sake, I’m five-foot-six,” she said.

“I’m probably 130lbs, and I look 100lbs in that thing.”

Winslet also told how she wept after being branded a bad mother following her split with ex-husband Jim Threapleton.

The Titanic star said she was devastated by accusations she was not doing enough to bring up her two-year-old daughter Mia.

“It reminded me of being a fat kid at school, doing nothing wrong, being really nice to everybody, and being bullied and being unable to fight back.

“It’s really, really hurtful. I cried. A lot.”