Kate Winslet’s willingness to tackle difficult and at times morally ambiguous roles has led many to call her the best actress of her generation and earned her an Oscar.
Her openness to take on such conflicted characters may be due to an affinity with their complex life choices. While the actress, 38, has earned plenty of praise for her acting, her personal life – three marriages and two children, with another on the way with new husband Ned RocknRoll – has come under plenty of scrutiny.
Winslet had some choice words for critics in a career-spanning interview that appears in the November issue of Vogue.
“People go, ‘Oh, my God! Those poor children! They must have gone through so much.’ Says who?” the actress said when asked about the criticism she’s received for her private life.
“They’ve always been with me,” she continued. “They don’t go from pillar to post; they’re not flown here and there with nannies. That’s never happened. My kids don’t go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads – my children live with me; that is it. That is it!”
Winslet said that while her children do have good relationships with their fathers – past husbands include Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes – she is glad to be the parent with whom they live.
As heated as Winslet may have gotten in the interview, the actress’s overly pristine look on the cover is more likely to be the big talking point when the issue hits newsstands on Wednesday.