Kate Winslet appears naked in her upcoming film The Reader. She doesn’t use a body double and disputes weight-loss claims. What’s her secret?

“My mantra is ‘keep it simple,’ ” the five-time Oscar nominee tells the U.K.’s Daily Mail in a new interview, revealing that she cooks at home and she eats anything except pasta - “it gives me a stomach ache.”

She’s also a Pilates person!

“I have a mat and little hand weights and I do a stomach thing and a bum thing. It’s very simple - you barely break into a sweat,” she says of practicing to a DVD “on the living room carpet.”

“Here’s what’s so great about it: no one’s looking at you, no one’s telling you what to do or work harder or anything like that,” says Winslet, 33. “I know it seems slightly tragic but it’s my way of exercising in a time-efficient way.”

“Nobody is perfect. I just don’t believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, ‘This is who I am and look at me not being perfect.’ I’m proud of that.”

So what does the mother of two, whose “boobs are worse for wear,” try? “I do whatever I can just to stay healthy,” she says. “I don’t go to the gym. I mean, I go through phases where I think: ‘Oh, I really should go and do a class.’ ”

Of the Vanity Fair shoot, which sparked a flurry of digital retouching claims, the actress says she was just in character. “I feel like I was playing the part and not me - it doesn’t feel like me. It took six hours to set up the lighting and the hair and makeup, because I obviously don’t look like that all the time.”

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Never mind that Leo guy. When it comes to hot costars, Kate Winslet prefers a more mature man.

“Eli Wallach is my very own Sexiest Man Alive!” Winslet gushed Sunday night at a gala honoring her friend and fellow actor Wallach, 92.

“The truth is,” she told guests at Tavern on the Green in New York, which included Wallach and his longtime wife, actress Anne Jackson, “Annie, if I had been around 60 years ago, you would have had some tough competition!”

Winslet, 33, attended the 80th anniversary gala dinner for the famed New York acting school, The Neighborhood Playhouse, to give an award to former student Wallach - who auditioned for the school in 1938 and is known for starring in such classics as The Misfits, The Magnificent Seven, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

“But one of my favorites,” Winslet admitted, “is The Holiday!” in which they costarred together in 2006.

So why does the actress find the elderly star so fetching?

“He’s always smiling, always chatting, always concentrating, and always telling stories. My favorite story is one that Eli shared with me about dancing on screen with Marilyn Monroe,” said Winslet. “I made him tell me that story again and again and again.”

And, she points out, he’s got more stamina than most younger guys.

“He could go take after take after take …” she says. On set, “there were days, I must confess, when I’d worry about him getting tired. But not Eli. Oh, no, no, no. I’d say to him, ‘Eli, please, would you go home now … We’ve been here for 20 hours and it’s nearly midnight and you’ve done your close up!’ But he’d look at me, almost offended, and say, ‘Oh no … I’m not going home. Not when I’m playing with you!’ ”

Also attending the reunion dinner were former Playhouse students Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, and Law %26 Order: Special Victim Unit’s Chris Meloni, who attended a summer session at the school when he was 23.

“I remember thinking to myself, ‘They are slowly and intentionally driving me crazy!’” said Meloni, of the school’s “repetition” acting exercise made famous by acting coach Sanford Meisner. “But I went with it. Being crazy is okay. Don’t fight crazy. You have to be a little crazy to be an actor.”

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Out for a brisk stroll yesterday afternoon (November 5), Kate Winslet was spotted in the meatpacking district of New York City.

The “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” actress chatted away on her mobile phone as she walked to her destination, looking cute and casual in a black jacket, white top, jeans, and black flats.

And it seems Kate’s new Vanity Fair spread has garnered some criticism from naysayers, claiming that her pics were photoshopped prior to being published. And that makes her angry.

Winslet’s rep told press, “Kate is furious at suggestions that her body has been airbrushed. She is in terrific shape and what you see is how she looks or she would never have agreed to pose for those shots. The only retouching was the usual work on skin tone that happens in every glamour shoot.”

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Just a day after Kate Winslet revealed in a Vanity Fair interview that she still feels like the “fat kid,” critics in her home country are lining up to claim she still is.

But the svelte five-time-Oscar-nominee isn’t having it: “Kate is furious at suggestions that her body has been airbrushed,” her rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.

The Sun ponders on its front page whether “that magic airbrush has been at work again” and the Daily Telegraph got a digital retouching expert to analyze the photos. But the closest scrutiny comes from the Daily Mail, which engaged a professional airbrush artist to perform an autopsy on Winslet, who was shot wearing heels, black stockings and nothing else.

“She is in terrific shape and what you see is how she looks or she would never have agreed to pose for those shots,” adds her rep.

“I just didn’t want people to think I was a hypocrite and that I’d suddenly lost 30 lbs. or whatever,” the youngest ever five-time Oscar nominee said at the time. “So I just came out and said, ‘Look, I don’t look like that’. I’m not mad at the magazine, but I have no intention of looking like that.”

Winslet’s rep does admit that minor tweaks were done to the actress for the photoshoot but insists the work was confined to skin shades only.

“The only retouching was the usual work on skin tone that happens in every glamour shoot,” adds the rep.

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Kate Winslet struggled with her weight as a teenager - and the successful star and fashion icon says she still sometimes has doubts about her body.

“I never had a desire to be famous,” Winslet, 31, says in a new Vanity Fair interview. “I was fat. I didn’t know any fat famous actresses. I just did not see myself in that world at all, and I’m being very sincere. You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid.”

Luckily, Winslet did not let her insecurities get the best of her. In fact, she set a record as the youngest actress to earn five Oscar nominations. But despite her professional successes, Winslet tells the magazine she still can be self-critical.

“But then I think, ‘They can’t be happy in those heels,’” she says.

So, what makes Winslet happy?

“I need to be looked after,” she says. “I need someone to say to me, ‘Shall I run you a bath?’ or ‘Let’s go to the pub, just us.’ I mean, the things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner.

The actress and her director husband Sam Mendes wed in 2003, and have a son, Joe, 5, together. Winslet has a daughter, Mia, 8, from a previous relationship.

Reuniting With Leo

Her latest project, Revolutionary Road, due in theaters in late December, allowed Winslet to collaborate with her husband for the first time. Mendes directed his wife in the period film, which also reunited her with Titanic costar Leonardo DiCaprio.

“Leo and I, you know, are sort of kindred spirits,” Winslet says. “We’re cut from the same cloth.”

DiCaprio also has high praise for Winslet, saying, “Kate is the most talented actress of her generation.”

Winslet has already earned Oscar buzz for her role in the film. And she may double her chances a sixth nomination with her second anticipated film this fall, The Reader, due out Dec. 12.

“How the hell did I get that lucky %26#91;to have two compelling roles%26#93; in the same 12-month period?,” she says. “It’s really rare and remarkable, and I don’t take that position lightly. It might not happen like that again; I’m well aware of that. You know, the truth is, I’m just going to bloody well make the most of it.”

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Stepping out for the day, Kate Winslet was spotted hailing a cab in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan on Monday (November 3).

The award winning actress is currently enjoying a little downtime before she gears up to promote “Revolutionary Road” alongside co-star Leonardo DiCaprio in a few short months.

Meanwhile, Miss Winslet recently opened up to Vanity Fair about being overweight as a child, saying, “This is going to sound really weird, but I never had a desire to be famous. I never had huge ambitions - never. I was fat. I didn’t know any fat famous actresses.”

The “Titanic” beauty continues, “I just did not see myself in that world at all, and I’m being very sincere. You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else.”

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Britney Spears and Paris Hilton tied for No. 1 on Mr. Blackwell’s 47th annual “Worst Dressed Women List,” the retired designer revealed Tuesday.

Calling them “two peas in an over-exposed pod” and “style-free and fashion deprived,” Blackwell dubbed Spears and Hilton the “Screamgirls.”

Blackwell didn’t limit his nitpicking to young stars such as 20-year-old Lindsay Lohan (No. 3), who went, he claims “from adorable to deplorable” - also targeted, in No. 10 spot, was 57-year-old Meryl Streep, even though she played a fashionista in The Devil Wears Prada.

Escaping Blackwell’s barbs are his “Fabulous Fashion Independents for 2006,” including Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie and Helen Mirren.

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Hollywood’s sardonic fashion designer Mr. Blackwell has announced his 43rd annual list of the Worst-Dressed Women of the Year, and 2002’s top pick is former Playboy pinup — now E! TV star and merry widow — Anna Nicole Smith.

“Anna’s fashion follies are the worst of the year,” said Richard Blackwell, 80, in a statement released Tuesday. (He is reportedly recovering from throat surgery.)

The effete Blackwell, born Richard Seltzer in Brooklyn, may have retired from designing, but not from proclaiming who needs to restock her closets.

“Don’t bother with a new designer Anna, ” he insists, “just hire a structural engineer.”

Smith, 35, was followed, in order, by the following:

Kelly Osbourne (”A fright-wigged Baby Doll, stuck in a goth prom gown”); Shakira (”Somebody should tell her those are probably Madonna’s old clothes”); Cameron Diaz (”Dressed by a color-blind circus clown”); Princess Anne (”Dreary, drab and dour”); “Interview with the Vampire” author Anne Rice (”A cross between Queen Victoria and the Vampire Lestat”); Donatella Versace (”Time to toss the peroxide once and for all”); Meg Ryan (”A total fashion wreck”); Christina Aguilera (”Let’s just call her the ‘Worst Undressed’ and leave it at that”); and Pink (”I’m seeing red”).

On the positive side, Blackwell saluted Reese Witherspoon, Debra Messing, Halle Berry, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Jordan’s Princess Firyal, Renee Zellweger, Kate Winslet, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Aniston for their senses of style, referring to them as his “Fabulous Fashion Independents” for 2002.

You may remember them in an intimate shipboard romance called Titanic. Now, 11 years later, Leonard DiCaprio and Kate Winslet again share the screen in Revolutionary Road, whose trailer has just debuted, prior to the movie’s year-end release.

The marital drama, directed by American Beauty’s Sam Mendes (who is married to Winslet), is based on Richard Yates’s acclaimed 1961 novel, about a suburban Connecticut couple’s romantic ambitions - and harsh realities.
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More than a decade since they took their Oscar-winning trip together on Titanic, Kate Winslet says Leonardo DiCaprio still floats her boat.

“I hadn’t realized how much my chemistry with him since Titanic would still stick,” Winslet, who stars with her former shipmate in the upcoming drama Revolutionary Road, tells Entertainment Weekly.

But the 32-year-old actress had to reset her compass during love scenes in the movie, which was directed by her husband Sam Mendes.

“I just kept saying, ‘This is too … weird,’ ” Winslet added. “And Leo was like, ‘Oh, get over it.’ And I’m going, ‘Yeah, a little reminder: You’re my best friend. He’s my husband. This is a bit weird.’ ”

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