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"  &amp;quot;Forty-two!&amp;quot; exclaims Kate Winslet, standing in the living room of one of the gigantic gold-leaf-embellished suites at the H\u00F4tel Ritz Paris and displaying the sole of her black patent leather Roger Vivier Pilgrim pump. &amp;quot;I wore a 40 at age 12,&amp;quot; she says. For those not familiar with European shoe sizing, a 40 is roughly a 10 here, making a 42...a very generous 11.  Not every celebrity is so quick to cop to her physical quirks. Much of Winslet&amp;#039;s likability, however, derives from her obvious comfort in her own skin. This is, after all, a woman who has admitted she doesn&amp;#039;t dread nudity, saying, &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I&amp;#039;m the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing herself.&amp;quot;  Winslet&amp;#039;s rather graphic sex scene with costar Patrick Wilson in 2006&amp;#039;s Little Children added to the buzz around her portrayal of unhappy housewife Sarah Pierce. &amp;quot;There are some characters that, while I&amp;#039;m sad to leave them behind, I&amp;#039;m also really happy to be released from their clutches,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;In particular, I would say the character Sarah. I could not wait to walk away from that one.&amp;quot;  Other roles, however, she wishes she could have continued. &amp;quot;I was very sad to leave Clementine because she was so hilarious and so outrageous,&amp;quot; Winslet says of her character in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. &amp;quot;There was a confidence and a nonchalance about her that I really loved.&amp;quot;  The chance to inhabit the world of Clementine Kruczynski also introduced Winslet to director Michel Gondry. &amp;quot;I felt so amazed, to be honest, that he even talked to me about playing that part,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;It really changed a lot in terms of my career. I&amp;#039;d been doing many classical roles prior to that\u2014Sense and Sensibility, Iris, Titanic\u2014and I&amp;#039;ve played a number of American roles since.&amp;quot;  Not long ago, Winslet accepted a more commercial part. Lanc\u00F4me signed the five-time Oscar nominee (she is the youngest person to achieve that distinction) to be the new face of its No. 1-selling perfume, Tr\u00E9sor. Winslet follows in the footsteps of Isabella Rossellini and In\u00E9s Sastre. &amp;quot;Kate is the incarnation of romance, modernity, and timeless elegance,&amp;quot; says Odile Roujol, the president of Lanc\u00F4me worldwide. &amp;quot;She continues the Tr\u00E9sor story that has been unfolding for more than 15 years.&amp;quot;  Winslet&amp;#039;s own perfume story wasn&amp;#039;t always so charmed. &amp;quot;I had a boyfriend when I was 16 who bought me a fragrance I wasn&amp;#039;t crazy about,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;It was too overpowering. I think he got the message when he realized the bottle hadn&amp;#039;t moved off the bathroom shelf!&amp;quot;  Her teenage years in general didn&amp;#039;t yield Winslet&amp;#039;s best beauty moments. &amp;quot;I got it into my head that eyeliner worked much better on lips than lip liner,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m afraid to say that I went out for six months with muddy purple eyeliner around the edges of my lips.&amp;quot;  Now Winslet&amp;#039;s daily regimen includes Amla Purifying Cleanser and Firming Serum from celebrated New York City facialist Tracie Martyn; a blend of two cream concealers (&amp;quot;I have quite a bad broken capillary on my left upper cheek,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I cover it every day&amp;quot;); and DDF Organic Sun Protection SPF 30, which she also slathers on her children, six-year-old Mia and three-year-old Joe.  Recently, she&amp;#039;s been able to spend lots of time with her kids, as the whole family has relocated to New York City while mom and dad film Revolutionary Road. Winslet&amp;#039;s husband, Sam Mendes (himself an Academy Award winner for American Beauty), is directing her in this adaptation of the 1961 Richard Yates novel about a young American couple who plan to move to Paris to escape their dreary suburban lives.  Mendes isn&amp;#039;t the only familiar face at the craft services table\u2014Winslet&amp;#039;s on-screen hubby is her &amp;quot;very, very close friend&amp;quot; Leonardo DiCaprio. &amp;quot;To have that experience of being with Leo again, after 10 years, is incredible,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;And the whole relationship is just exactly the same as it was.&amp;quot; (Titanic costar Kathy Bates has a role in the new flick as well.) One thing Winslet and DiCaprio don&amp;#039;t do between takes: relive their glory days aboard the ill-fated ocean liner. &amp;quot;Leo and I were saying, `How many times did you watch Titanic?&amp;#039;\u2009&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s impossible to view one of your movies and not be critical. For both of us, it was two, and that&amp;#039;s it.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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