Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet recently appeared on the cover page of a magazine. The 48-year-old actress talked about how she is embracing body-positivity and posed topless in the sea.

In an interview with Harper’s Magazine UK, the actress recalled how a crew member told her to ‘sit up straight’ for a shot in a bikini on the set of her upcoming film ‘Lee’, so that her belly rolls wouldn’t show. “That didn’t happen in your life! That was intentional, you know?,” she said, adding that she doesn’t mind looking less-than-perfect on screen. “I’m proud of it because it’s my life on my face, and that’s what matters. It didn’t occur to me to hide it,” she revealed.

She added, “I think people know better than to say ‘you should do something about your wrinkles’. As each year goes by, I feel more comfortable in myself. This enables me to let other people’s opinions evaporate.”

In the same interview, she also said, “I feel very relieved that women are beginning to accept themselves and refuse criticism. Because I don’t know a single contemporary of mine who grew up watching her mother look in the mirror and say: ‘I look good!’ My mother never did that: she was always thinking, Oh my God, I don’t think I can wear that, do I look like a hippie, does my butt look big? We spend so much time putting ourselves down and I’ll never do that again.”

“I’m very lucky that I’m in an industry where there are so many wonderful older actresses who are absolute role models. I really appreciate that — and I secretly hope that I can be in that pocket for some people,” she joked.

Directed by Ellen Kuras, ‘Lee’ is the story of photographer Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller, who was a model and became an acclaimed war correspondent during World War II.