Kate Winslet has joined forces with Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz to form a “British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League,” a group of women who say no to altering their bodies with plastic surgery, according to the Telegraph.
Winslet, 35, said she is passionate about influencing other women to allow themselves to age gracefully and join her in staying away from plastic surgery operating tables.
“It goes against my morals, the way that my parents brought me up and what I consider to be natural beauty,” she said. “I’m an actress. I don’t want to freeze the expression of my face.”
Weisz, 41, agreed with Winslet’s stance, saying that despite pressures to maintain a youthful look having a face with character is in fact an advantage in Hollywood.
"People who look too perfect don't look sexy or particularly beautiful," she said.
Thompson, 52, shared the same ideology as her close friend and Sense and Sensibility co-star.
“I’m not fiddling about with myself,” she said. “We’re in this awful youth-driven thing now where everybody needs to look 30 at 60.”
Although Winslet is against plastic surgery, she has had the spotlight on her for being altered in other ways, such as her overly flawless complexion in recent ads for Lancome’s L’Absolu Nu lipstick. The company came under fire for excessively smoothing any wrinkles or lines that appeared on Winslet in the photographs.
In 2003, Winslet was furious over the extreme digital altering to the image of her on the cover of GQ magazine, which made her legs and body obviously thinner.
"The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly I don't desire to look like that," she said after the cover hit newsstands. "I actually have a Polaroid that the photographer gave me on the day of the shoot… I can tell you they've reduced the size of my legs by about a third. For my money it looks pretty good the way it was taken."
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