Kate Winslet is keeping it real. Very real.

In fact, when she watches her Golden Globe-winning role in Revolutionary Road, she says, “I’m so thrilled by our foreheads.” (She’s speaking, of course, of hers and costar Leonardo DiCaprio’s non-Botoxed brows.) “They’re supposed to move. I’m very proud of that.”

She’s also proud of her normal, off-screen lifestyle, with husband Sam Mendes and their son, Joe, 5, and Winslet’s daughter, Mia, 8, from a previous marriage, which she talks openly about in the February issue of InStyle (on sale Friday).

“Please don’t call me that. I don’t feel like a movie star in my life at all, and I don’t particularly think I behave like one,” says the actress, 33.

She adds: “I don’t have my own plane. I don’t have a chef or a trainer. To me, you’re a movie star only during the time when you’re at the Academy Awards or at an important glamorous event. It’s very much a hat that you wear, and as soon as the event’s over, the hat comes off. I’m back to being me and being Mummy, and that’s my priority.”

Still, the glamour of such events is not lost on Winslet: “I’m always very aware of that feeling of, ‘How lucky am I?’ ” Her other lucky turn? Her connection with one of Hollywood’s hottest actors, DiCaprio. “He has always been my closest actor friend,” she says. “I absolutely love the guy.”

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A breathless Kate Winslet, the first winner of the night at Sunday’s Golden Globes – as best supporting actress for The Reader – proved to be a double winner by evening’s end. She was also named best leading actress in the drama Revolutionary Road.

As determined by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Winslet, along with Mickey Rourke, Colin Farrell, Happy-Go-Lucky’s Sally Hawkins, the late Heath Ledger, Slumdog Millionaire, and Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona were the top winners in the film categories.

The HBO miniseries John Adams, AMC’s Mad Men and NBC’s multiple-winner 30 Rock took TV honors.

Winslet Grows Tearful
Apologizing to her sister nominees for best actress Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie (whose name she momentarily forgot), Meryl Streep and Kristin Scott Thomas, Winslet grew progressively tearful as she delivered her thanks “off the cuff.”

“Leo,” she said, looking at her costar in the film, her long-ago Titanic screen lover Leonardo DiCaprio, “I am so happy I can stand here and tell you I love you, and have for 13 years.”

She also thanked her husband Sam Mendes, who directed Revolutionary Road, for putting her and DiCaprio “through hell every day.”

Mickey Rourke – whose star rose in the ’80s only to flame out – was named best dramatic actor for The Wrestler, and acknowledged, “This has been a really long road back for me.”

He also suggested he might be better off if Robert Downey Jr. came up and delivered his speech for him, though Rourke ultimately proved both eloquent and colorful.

Top Picture
Slumdog Millionaire, about a young man in India whose arduous life unfolds during his stint on his country’s version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, was named best dramatic picture. It also took home Globes for its director Danny Boyle, as well as for its original score and screenplay.

Letty Aronson, who produced her brother Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, accepted the top comedy picture Globe on behalf of her notoriously introverted sibling.

The HBO historical drama John Adams swept the TV categories, with Globes going to leading actor Paul Giamatti, actress Laura Linney, supporting actor Tom Wilkinson and producer Tom Hanks, for best miniseries.

Mad Man was named best dramatic series.

Alec Baldwin, who won for best actor in a comedy series for his huffy network exec on NBC’s 30 Rock, thanked show creator, writer and his costar Tina Fey three times. He also thanked his daughter Ireland, “who makes me laugh when I’m home.”

Colin Farrell appeared genuinely surprised to be named best actor in a comedy for In Bruges. He thanked his director, Martin McDonagh, for ignoring his advice to cast someone else in his role.

While Brad Pitt’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Angelina Jolie’s Changeling were shut out of the awards, the duo received plenty of attention – from one another. Throughout the three-hour ceremony in the international ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the pair were openly affectionate.

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Forget trainers and two-hour gym workouts. Kate Winslet has another secret to her movie-star figure: 20 minutes and a DVD.

Winslet, who at 33 is a slim size 6 (UK size 10), tells the UK edition of Elle that “I don’t go to the gym because I don’t have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.”

And, Winslet says, she’s been the same since she had her second child, Joe, five years ago.

“I still don’t believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don’t stuff down chocolate biscuits,” she tells the magazine in its February edition.

Despite a set of stunning, sexy shots in Elle that show off her body, she is modest about her shape, calling herself “pretty average.” She adds, “I have cellulite, I have a rumply tummy and my boobs have dropped. I did think that post-kids, my sex scenes days were over.”

Far from it. Both her current movies – Revolutionary Road, directed by her second husband Sam Mendes, 43, and costarring Leonardo DiCaprio, and The Reader – contain sex scenes.

Winslet also talks about her enduring friendship with DiCaprio, the Titanic costar with whom she broke box-office records a decade ago. “He’s part of the family and I love that he’s matured into this kind, dedicated man. When we work together we instinctively know what the other one is thinking.”

As for the legacy of Titanic, the English-born New Yorker says she has an “absolute fear” that her daughter Mia, 8, is now old enough to watch the biggest movie of her mom’s career while on a playdate. “It may sound silly,” she tells Elle, “but I want that to be something we all share as a family.”

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Kate Winslet has credited Leonardo DiCaprio with helping her get over her weight issues – after he confronted her 10 years ago on the set of their film Titanic.

The pair teamed up for the first time since the 1997 blockbuster for new movie Revolutionary Road.

Winslet is adamant DiCaprio’s pep talk on the set of the disaster movie helped her come to terms with her body issues.

But she admits she still struggles to deal with superstardom, more than a decade after the pair first teamed up.

Winslet says, “I’m still coming to terms with (fame) to be honest. I knew from when I was very, very young I wanted to be an actress. I certainly didn’t think it meant making films because to me that was something Judy Garland did.

“As a child, I was overweight and I was very chubby and I was always the wrong kid at the audition because my hair was wrong and the shoes didn’t fit. I did loose weight very sensibility when I was younger but those says are very much behind me.”

Turning to DiCaprio, she adds, “I remember you saying to me one day, ‘You’ve really got to let the whole fat girl thing go’. And that’s the truth, you’re right.”

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