Kate Winslet still a stunner with her super-short platinum blond bob!

Beautiful Kate Winslet is changing her ways… with her hair that is! Winslet graces the cover of the UK version of Vogue magazine, showing off her new, platinum blonde pixie cut. This is the third time that Winslet has been featured on a Vogue cover.

35-year-old Winslet is probably best known for her role as Rose in the 1997 film Titanic. Along with her new look, she also discusses the split between her and her husband of 8 years, 45-year-old Sam Mendes. The two split last year.

Mendes is a director of movies such as American Beauty. He and Winslet were married in 2003 and have a 7-year-old son named Joe. Winslet also has a 10-year-old daughter, Mia, from her previous marriage to assistant director Jim Threapleton.

Of the split, Winslet says: “Experiencing those moments of being alone… is a very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you’re just not used to it… But I’ve never been lonely, it’s a surprise to discover that I like being on my own.”

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Kate Winslet has spoken for the first time about her split from Sam Mendes, calling her single status “empowering” and insisting she is not “lonely”.

The Titanic star announced the end of her relationship with the filmmaker, her second husband, last March after nearly seven years of wedlock.

Winslet, who was linked to male model Louis Dowler after the separation, has now broken her silence about the breakdown of her marriage to Mendes, revealing she is embracing life as a single mum-of-two.

She tells Vogue magazine, “(It’s an) empowering thing… Experiencing those moments of being alone… is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you’re just not used to it. And it’s not just being in a relationship. It’s also the fact that I grew up in a family full of people. I’ve never been lonely. And with (kids) Mia and Joe that remains the case.

“But to be in this place now where I can say I really like this space. I really need to not have anyone around. It’s a surprise to discover that I like being on my own.”

Winslet was previously married to Jim Threapleton, her daughter Mia’s dad, but they divorced in 2001.

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In an exclusive interview with Zap2it, Kate Winslet says, rather colorfully, that she understands and appreciates why Melissa Leo dropped the first ever F bomb at the Academy Awards.

On Tuesday’s (Mar. 1) “Ellen” show, Leo reflected on her colorful acceptance speech. “It’s part of my vernacular, part of my upbringing,” Leo says. “I do respect that there are people who do not appreciate it.”

Leo added that she was thinking of Winslet, whom she says, “is delightful and curses like a sailor all the time.”

Winslet, in Paris filming Carnage, laughs at the characterization.

“Everyone dumps all this s*** on me, all the f***ing time,” Winslet tells Zap2it. “She is right though. She is absolutely right. I have got to hand it to her — and she did curse on the stage of the Academy Awards. That’s my kind of cool.”

The six-time Oscar nominee (she won best actress in 2009 for The Reader) also shares what she texted Leo on Sunday night.

“I sent her a text message: ‘Is that f***ing you, Melissa? You motherf**ing cow.'” Winslet quotes herself. “And the b**** hasn’t called me back!”

Leo and Winslet star in HBO’s upcoming Mildred Pierce a five-and-a-half hour miniseries, based on James M. Cain’s novel about a complicated woman during the Depression.

“I didn’t get to say f*** in this g******ed f***ing thing,” she says of the miniseries.

The cameras caught enough of Winslet cursing that they made an outtake reel of her doing nothing but. Once, she let lose with “s***” in front of the girl who plays her daughter, Veda, as a child. “And the little one said, ‘Language.'”

For the record, Winslet swears she doesn’t swear in front of her own children, Mia, 10, and Joe, 7.

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Glamour readers, you’ve got good taste — because Kate Winslet looks amazing, of course, but she’s gorgeous inside, too. She talks to writer Skip Hollandsworth about career, kids and figuring out love postmarriage.

Ah, Kate: actress, mother and, let’s be honest, glamazon.

At least so say Glamour readers, who have voted her to the very top of the 50 Most Glam list a whopping three years running. “Kate is sophistication and class all the way,” posted jaellis on glamour.com. And from knwilson: “Why do I feel like I know her on a personal level? I can’t get enough!” So what does the Oscar winner think of the flattery? “I mean, come on!” she says, laughing. “Sophia Loren is glamorous. I don’t know how to do my hair.”

But that’s exactly why we all love her. Red carpet aside, the world can sense a real woman in there. Ever since her star-making love scenes in Titanic, Winslet, 35, has enjoyed defusing the mythology of Hollywood glamour, talking openly about her implant-free breasts and her refusal to starve herself. She also takes movie roles that are complicated — and often not particularly pretty. Consider her last two performances, in 2008: There was Revolutionary Road‘s anguished, raging housewife, and Hanna Schmitz, the illiterate former concentration camp guard in The Reader, for which she won her best actress Oscar. This month Winslet again proves her mettle, as star of the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce. Playing a Depression-era single mother, she appears in every single scene of the five-hour series and is, by turns, repressed, restless, selfish, self-destructive and admirably determined. Who says glamour is all surface?

As for life away from the camera, Winslet, who is mother to Mia, 10, and Joe, 7, is the portrait of English reserve, revealing almost nothing to the media. But she recently had to deal with her own very public drama: In March 2010 she and her husband of nearly seven years, director Sam Mendes, announced their separation. So how is life now? Over coffee at a tiny Manhattan café, Winslet opened up.

GLAMOUR: Here you are, playing a character who is described in James M. Cain’s novel as “fat and getting a little shapeless,” a woman who has “lost everything she had worked for.” For God’s sake, what’s the deal with your love of playing these angst-ridden women?

KATE WINSLET: [Laughs.] It’s my chance to challenge myself to the fullest, which is one of the great joys about this job… I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best. It’s more fun playing a character that requires you to look like dog s—t.

GLAMOUR: Dog what?

KATE WINSLET: I’ve never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they’re on-screen. That doesn’t make sense to me.

GLAMOUR: Which is ironic, because you have been voted Most Glamorous three years in a row by Glamour magazine’s readers.

KATE WINSLET: That is incredibly flattering, but it’s just so far from how I view myself. I mean, you are lucky my hair is even dry right now!

GLAMOUR: Well, then, do you have a chef?

KATE WINSLET: [Laughs.] I do! Her name is Kate! I love to cook; I cook every day. Chicken features a lot in our lives. Chicken “bits and bobs,” as my son calls it, which is basically roasted drumsticks.

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Access Hollywood has the online exclusive first look at the poster for HBO’s upcoming Kate Winslet-starring miniseries, Mildred Pierce, the Oscar winning actress’ first foray into television.

Set to debut on HBO on Sunday, March 27, this isn’t your mother’s Mildred Pierce, and fans of Joan Crawford’s Oscar winning performance in the 1945 film are in for a very different take.

“The big, big change is the Joan Crawford/the Michael Curtiz, film is framed by murder. [It] starts with a murder and works backward to figure out how the murder happened. So, when I first started reading the novel…[I said to our director] Todd [Haynes]… ‘I don’t get it. When did the murder happen? He’s like, ‘No you idiot. There is no murder.’ So that is the biggest change,” Executive Producer Christine Vachon of Killer Films told Access Hollywood of their update on the classic film.

The new rendition, based on James M. Cain’s original book and split into five parts, is set mostly during the Depression, offering a look at a younger Mildred Pierce (Kate), and her tumultuous relationship with a demanding diva daughter Veda (Evan Rachel Wood), her struggles with class and her eye-raising-for-the-times relationships with men, including her lover Monty Beragon (Guy Pearce).

“What I’m hoping is that people will see what a strong work this is on every sort of level. The story is absolutely compelling, it’s completely addictive… and you’re desperate to know what happens next,” Christine told Access of what viewers can expect from the upcoming series. “At every level — from the costumes to the production design to the music — it’s just a feast.”

Kate admitted at HBO’s panel at the Winter 2011 Television Critics Association gathering in early January that she didn’t watch the Joan version of the film prior to her filming her own performance, because she “wouldn’t have been able to un-see it,” adding, “I also knew that I had to honor the book.”

While the book is set in Southern California, the filmmakers — who include Christine, her Killer Films partner Pamela Koffer, Todd, who directed and executive produced, alongside his co-writer in the project John Wells — were able to help secure Kate in the title role by shooting in New York. She was their first choice for the part.

Among the locales they shot in were Long Island, Steiner Studios in Brooklyn and The New School in Manhattan, Christine said. While the locations made things easy, the hard part of making the miniseries was the burden it put on Kate, who is in almost every scene. In fact, while shooting last May, it was widely reported that Kate sustained an injury playing basketball with her children.

“That did happen,” Christine confirmed. “But she was fine… We had to shut down while she made sure she was OK.”

While the demanding role put pressures on Kate, she was a joy to work with on set, Christine said.

“For Kate, it was such a grueling schedule and she tried to blow off steam when she could,” Christine said.

So, how does an Academy Award winner like Kate blow off steam in between takes?

“She just makes jokes,” Christine revealed.

Mildred Pierce Parts 1 and 2 will air back-to-back on March 27. Part 3 will air Sunday April 3 and Parts 4 and 5 will debut on April 10 on HBO.

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