Kate gives trademark curves the airbrush
Winslet appears on the front cover of men's magazine GQ with her trademark curves airbrushed out of existence.
Posing in a revealing black basque, she displays a pair of supermodel-skinny legs, tiny waist and razor-sharp cheekbones thanks to digital trickery.
Inside the magazine, the 27-year-old Titanic star looks even thinner, showing off an impossibly flat stomach.
GQ editor Dylan Jones admitted the pictures had been "digitally manipulated" to make Winslet appear thinner than she really is, and said the actress had approved the results.
But they sit a little incongruously with the accompanying interview, in which Winslet berates women for equating sex appeal with being thin.
She said: "What is sexy? All I know from the men I've ever spoken to is that they like girls to have an arse on them, so why is it that women think in order to be adored they have to be thin? I just don't understand that way of thinking."
Winslet, soon to be seen in new film The Life Of David Gale alongside Kevin Spacey, was picked on at school for being overweight and earned the nickname Blubber.
"I think when you've been a fat kid, you always see yourself in some way as a bit of a black sheep," Winslet said.
"I'm completely physically comfortable with who I am and I have no particular issues any more and I don't feel I have to run around waving my flag about the female body any more."
Winslet has spoken many times in defence of larger women and was proud of her appearance in Titanic, the film which shot her to fame.
She admits in GQ she had a "slightly more Marilyn Monroe-y shape" in those days, but in truth the actress has shed a great deal of weight since then.
She lost four-and-a-half stone following the birth of her daughter Mia in 2000, attributing the weight loss to a facial analysis diet which prescribes an eating plan based on complexion and facial features.
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