Winslet’s maternal defense

Kate Winslet is sick of people implying she’s a bad mom, said Vicki Woods in Vogue. The actress, married for the third time and pregnant, also had a child with each of her previous two husbands, sparking a lot of unpleasant sniffiness about her serial marriages. But she gets furious if her kids are mentioned. “People go, ‘Oh, my God! Those poor children! They must have gone through so much.’ Says who?” she demands angrily. “They’ve always been with me. They don’t go from pillar to post; they’re not flown here and there with nannies. My children live with me. That is it!” Winslet used to split her time between New York and the English Cotswolds, but she now lives with husband Ned Rocknroll in a house in rural southern England. Her children—Mia, from her marriage with assistant director Jim Threapleton, and son Joe, whose father is director Sam Mendes—are enrolled at the local school. “My kids don’t go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and the dads,” she says. “Of course they have lovely relationships with their dads, but they don’t go and live with them for a week and come to me for a week. They live with me.”

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