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Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz form anti-plastic surgery group

Oscar winner Kate Winslet, who once weighed 211 pounds, is so opposed to plastic surgery that she has formed a group called the British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League with her actress pals Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz.

'Plastic Surgery Goes Against My Morals'

“I will never give in,” Winslet, 35, told the UK Telegraph. “[Cosmetic surgery] goes against my morals, the way that my parents brought me up and what I consider to be natural beauty.”

Kate, a divorced mother of two, says getting one's face injected full of Botox also goes against her principles.

“I am an actress," she says. "I don’t want to freeze the expression of my face.

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"I have wrinkles here, which are very evident, and I will particularly say when I look at movie posters, 'You guys have airbrushed my forehead. Please can you change it back?' I'd rather be the woman they're saying 'She's looking older' about than 'She's looking stoned.'"

Winslet, who has been praised for embracing her curvy body, previously slammed the over-the-top airbrushing done in movies and fashion magazines, saying the doctored images encourage an unrealistic body image.

Kate: Magazines Excessively Airbrush Photos

"The retouching [done in magazines] is excessive," says Kate, who was heavily airbrushed for a 2003 GQ cover that made her look at least 20 pounds thinner.

"I do not look like that, and more importantly I don't desire to look like that."

Winslet's longtime friend, British actress Emma Thompson, agrees.

"I'm not fiddling about with myself," says Thompson, 52. "We're in this awful youth-driven thing now where everybody needs to look 30 at 60."

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Samantha Chang is the executive editor and co-owner of TheImproper.com, an arts and entertainment website in New York City. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Samantha is a former financial journalist who enjoys running, cycling and music. Contact her at schang@theImproper.com.

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