Elisabeth Rohm, one of the sexy stars of Heroes, talked about Kate Winslet  while attending the Movies for Grownups AARP event this week. She thinks actress  Kate Winslet is great and she’s always admired her for being so comfortable with her own body.

Regarding her own figure Elisabeth said,

“I’ve never felt the pressure to be skinny. I’ve always been fuller.”

She went on to say that she continues to workout but isn’t going to be ‘crazy’ about it. She said,

“I usually do something like circuit training. I have a short attention span.”

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The glamorous Kate Winslet has accepted libel damages over the previous allegations that she lied about her workout routine. A few months ago Winslet sued the Associated Newspapers when an article was published accusing her of lying about only exercising 20 minutes a day and the author of the article suggested that the actress had to do more than that to prepare for roles. Her lawyer Rachel Atkins said,

“The claimant has frequently asserted the right of women to accept the way that they look and by accusing her of trying to mislead the public, the defendant caused her a great deal of distress. It was simply not true.”

The newspaper did print an apology in September and agreed to pay the damages worth $40,000. Winslet said that she felt she had to demand an apology to show her commitment to the views she has previously expressed about body image, diet and exercise. She said,

“I strongly believe that women should be encouraged to accept themselves as they are, so to suggest that I was lying was an unacceptable accusation of hypocrisy.”

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Kate Winslet has been a long time role model for women everywhere who don’t fit into Hollywood’s traditional ideal body, and now she’s ready to sue a UK based tabloid for claiming that she lies about her fitness habits.  The Daily Mail wrote an article titled, Should Kate Winslet Win an Oscar for the World’s Most Irritating Actress? which questioned one of Winslet’s quotes from an interview with Elle magazine where she said,

“I don’t go to the gym because I don’t have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.”

The writer of the article, Liz Jones, then went on to say that Winslet had succumbed to Hollywood pressure to slim down and,

“has become, in my opinion, as drippy and as impossibly vain as the rest of them.  She caught a nasty dose of Hollywooditis. It happens to the best of them, of course it does,” wrote Jones. “It is the duplicitousness that enrages me and most other women I have spoken to.”

At this point, the tabloid has refused Winslet’s request to not reprint their claims.

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