The images were shot as a sultry tribute to French actress Catherine
DeNeuve in the classic film, Belle du Jour, and while Winslet doesn’t
shy away from nudity in her films, she has never bared it all in the
pages of a magazine.
In the accompanying interview, the mother of two, Mia (8) and Joe (5),
says she realizes that the pictures will raise eyebrows among other
mothers on the school run.
"I know when I walk into that classroom in the morning, even if it's
for a split second, at some point I'm being checked out. Some of them
will even say to me, 'OK, what's the secret with the skin?' At which
point I'm like, 'Oh my God, there's no secret. I have make-up on. And
by the way, since I turned 30 I've had an acne problem on my chin.”
Kate and Leo will team up again in the film Revolutionary Road, about
a couple trapped in marriage in the 1950s. While she won’t be wearing
the 170-carat sapphire that wowed audiences in Titanic (which later
sold at a benefit auction for a whopping $2.2 million), there are
plenty of steamy scenes between the two stars to keep tongues wagging.