Kate Winslet was proud to reveal her stretch marks when she stripped off for her new film Little Children.

The mother of two has said: “It was very important for me to just be a real person and be in the position where I can stand up and say, ‘Hey look, I’m normal. I have these stretch marks. I’m not perfect.’”

“The notion that women in films are perfect and beautiful and have some kind of secret beauty that nobody else has is just so ridiculous to me, because we’re all normal.”

“I was very, very nervous about it but it’s such a huge part of the story that I was immersed in the characters.”

“I just thought to myself, ‘You know what, I’m playing a woman who is a mother and therefore it stands to reason that not every part of my body would be perfect - which, by the way, it’s not - and who is perfect?”