Winslet stops her children from using social media

Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet has clamped down on social media in her home amid fears it could leave someone’s self-esteem in tatters.

The 40-year-old mother of three has not read her own press since the late 1990s and believes that parents are “losing control” of their children to social media.

On the power of social media, Winslet told The Sunday Times Culture magazine: “It has a huge impact on young women’s self-esteem, because all they ever do is design themselves for people to like them.