Based on her demeanor and lifestyle, six time Academy Award nominee and star of "The Holiday" Kate Winslet, would send traditional Christmas cards featuring a photo of her family or perhaps a snow covered winter scene.

Kate Winslet is a consummate actress. Along with numerous other awards, she has the distinction of being the youngest actress to be nominated for six Academy Awards, finally winning one for The Reader. Her roots are in acting. Her mother, Sally Anne and father Roger John Winslet, were “jobbing actors,” who supplemented their careers by working as a barmaid and a swimming-pool contractor respectively. Her maternal grandparents founded and operated the Reading Repertory Theatre. Her uncle and sisters are also actors.

I was watching The Holiday the other night. What a perfect Christmas movie. Even though Kate Winslet spent most of her holiday season in L.A., her home in the movie, occupied for Christmas by Cameron Diaz, was a picture perfect Christmas scene. I began wondering how Kate Winslet would spend an acutal Christmas.

I envision Kate’s Christmas as being traditional and this proved true as she spoke about Christmas on late-night television shows. Her children still believe in Father Christmas, as Santa is known in the U.K. When asked by Jay Leno if the wrapping paper would cause suspicion, Kate’s answer (in case her children would see the show) was, “the gift wrap in the North Pole is so completely different. You can’t get the same gift wrap that you’d get in New York or London. There is no confusion, we have got it down.”

She has forewarned others not to spoil her children with frivolous Christmas gifts. She tells family to only buy books and pens or mittens and hats. I really wonder how her children feel about that. I can’t imagine the children being very excited come Christmas morning.

This past Christmas took the family home to Reading for a traditional English Christmas celebration at her parents’ home. She described the celebration as, “A very, very Winslet Christmas with lots of people, lots of noise, lots of children, lots of presents and log fires.” How much more traditional can you get? I think there may have been more than books and pens or hats and mittens under the tree on Christmas morning in Reading.

I don’t know what type of Christmas cards Kate and hubbie Sam actually send. I can see them sending a snow-covered winter scene, but photo Christmas cards featuring a picture of the family around a fireplace with the Yule log burning may be a better choice and more typical of their lifestyle.

Kate’s weight issues have often been a topic of articles in celebrity papers. One magazine had erroneously published that Kate had visited diet doctors. She sued and won a libel settlement of £3000 ($6,000). Kate donated this settlement to three eating disorder charities. I find myself agreeing with her in regard to her feelings about fashion magazines and young girls. Our preoccupation with thin models and thin actresses has driven a number of young girls to eating disorders. I can only say that she has my vote when it comes to banning fashion magazines and unrealistic images of women from her home.

Kate has donated to numerous other charities such as the Afghanistan Relief Organization and U.K. charities Cardboard Citizens, a theater company for homeless people, and the National Literacy Trust, among other worthwhile charities.

Kate Winslet seems to me to be her own person. She may have an uphill fight trying to protect her family from the onslaught of celebrity magazines and their fabrications to make sales of their editions. I wish her the best of luck as she seems to be a genuine person that has not forgotten her roots.

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