Kate Winslet hopes that “in some small way” her films have shown teenage girls that you don’t have to be a size zero to happy and successful.

She revealed recently that she won’t have fashion magazines featuring skinny celebrities and models in the house in case they influence her six year old daughter, Mia.

She said: “It is unbelievably disturbing what’s going on at the moment. Young girls are impressionable.”

“They’re trying to figure out who they are and they want to be loved.”

“What I resent is there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. It’s truly upsetting to me.”

Kate has previously admitted to being bullied about her weight as a child but despite losing weight to appear in blockbuster Titanic, she has refused to conform weight-loss demands since then and was proud to show off her stretch marks in recent film Little Children.