I discovered Kate as most girls did – in their teens/circa 1997 – Titanic. Amidst my love affair with then still green Leonardo DiCaprio – this ravishing beauty came crashing into the rich fantasyscape of my imagination – with curves (similar to my own) and fiery red hair. The vintage dresses and period pieces she wore sealed my fate, I would forever love Kate Winslet.

A cult fan follower of Winslet – I’ve seen every film that she had even smallest role in. In 2006, she floored me with her performance as Sarah Pierce in Little Children.  A dark, frankly disturbing film, dealing with the nuances of life as a repressed suburban housewife coupled with suburban reaction to pedophilia.

She’s taken me through hideously kinky stories to blindsiding situations that left me saying Holy Smoke!  She’s told a dangerous stories of  post-war Nazi Germany and shown me what happens when a woman moves down revolutionary roads. And through all the drama, pain and reality of life, she’s managed to show me that I can still laugh and have a last holiday hoorah!

And now, November 2008 – She’s on the cover of Vanity Fair, striking the Catherine Deneuve poses from Belle de Jour, a fantastic French classic film about a housewife moonlighting as a daytime prostitute.

The Deneuve/Winslet crossover makes my heart flutter (My first Deneuve film was Indochine). She is gorgeous, radiant and comfortable in her own skin. All the things I feel as I approach the big 30. Thank you once again Kate for being a role model.

Read the Vanity Fair article here

Kate Winslet Vanity Fair 2008