She's won an Oscar, and Emmy and three Golden Globe awards,but Kate Winslet doesn't like being called a movie star. "I've always beenso uncomfortable with that," she admits in the new issue of WSJ. Magazine."I just don't feel like one, and I don't live like one, either – not theway I imagine a proper movie star living."
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The Steve Jobs star lives in a country house outside ofLondon with her husband Ned RocknRoll (he legally changed his name from EdwardSmith in 2008), their son, Bear, 2, and her two children from previousmarriages, Mia, 14, and Joe, 11. Most mornings Kate is up at 6 a.m., cookingbreakfast and getting the kids ready for school.
Unlike some stars who travel to film sets around the worldwithout their kids, when Kate is working, her family comes with her. "Idon't leave anyone behind," she says. "That's just not the way itgoes."
While she's open about her hectic family life, she's lessforthcoming when it comes to her divorces. Her first marriage to JimTherapleton ended when she was just 26, and she split from second husband,director Sam Mendes, in 2010.
"I know lots of people who are not inthe public eye who have gone through several marriages, I really do, and it’sjust those are the cards that life dealt me. I didn’t plan on it being thatway," she says. "It hasn't been easy, you know."
She continued to explain why those marriages ended: "No one really knows what hashappened in my life. No one really knows why my first marriage didn't last; no one knows whymy second didn't. And I'm proud of those silences."
Kate will next star in Steve Jobs Photo: WSJ. Magazine
Kate turns 40 on October 5, and she is embracing this newphase in her life. "I have not wasted a second," she says. "Goodgod, have I made the most of those 40 years."
After rocketing to worldwide fame as Leonardo DiCaprio'slove interest in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic, the actress became known assomeone who wasn't afraid to strip down if the role called for it, but now themom of three says those days are over. "I don't think I can get away with it now," sheadmits. "I've never had a body double – that would feel like lying. So Iam probably done."
She says that after three pregnancies "there are thingthat will never go back, but in terms of physically feeling back and healthy, Ido."
She also says that those feelings of insecurity that she hadin her 20s about her body are long gone. "Now I view myphysical self as an instrument that I have to keep going because I’m amother," she says. "And I have to be as healthy as I can for thosethree people who need me — more than I need for myself to be in a f---ing nudescene."
