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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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Kate looks amazing!!

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Kate Winslet sat down with ET this week in New York City during promotion for her new film, The Reader.

Kate tells ET that shooting the film “took me to the brink in many ways.” For the nude scenes in the movie, Kate says she refused to work out because, “It was important to me to look real. I really don’t believe in this notion that actors and actresses should look untouchably perfect.”

In the film, Kate ages 35 years thanks to make-up and padding, “It was exhausting. It took seven hours to put on every day and the body suit weighs about 15 pounds.”

A haunting story about horrific war crimes, truth and reconciliation, The Reader stars Kate as Hanna, a woman in post-WWII Germany who plunges into a passionate and secretive affair with a younger man named Michael Berg (David Kross) and then suddenly disappears. Several years later, Michael, now a law student, sits in on the Nazi war crime trials, only to find Hanna forced to defend herself in the courtroom.

“It is a love story; it’s not a Holocaust movie,” says Kate. “It’s about these two people falling in love and needing each other in ways that really surprise them both.”

As for the fact that she’s 15 years older than her 18-year-old co-star, she says that their love scenes were nothing but professional. “It was the same as shooting any other scene of that nature,” she explains. “A scene with that level of intimacy involving nudity, you know, it’s always nerve-wracking, and you really have to rehearse those scenes so that everybody knows exactly what’s going on. He (David) didn’t need that much looking after.”

The Reader opens December 10th.

Here are some pictures of Kate in The Reader.  And if you’re interested, here’s the trailer!

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