Kate Winslet - Winslet To Sue Over 'Diet' Report

Kate Winslet has announced her intention to sue a magazine over claims that she visited a diet doctor in California.

The 32-year-old actress, who has spoken out in support of more curvaceous figures on numerous occasions, said that reports in Grazia magazine of a visit to the Chinese Healing Institute in Santa Monica to help her achieve a more slender figure and ease neck pain were completely untrue.

"I'm very upset, it's categorically untrue, it's a complete lie," she told BBC1's Newsbeat.

"I don't want people thinking that I would ever go to a diet doctor. I never have done, and I never will.

"I know I am a role model to young women, it's a role I take very, very seriously. I would never want anyone to think I was a hypocrite in doing something like going to a diet doctor."

Winslet's agent told the BBC that the Oscar-nominated actress had visited the doctor several years ago over a "completely separate issue".

In December Winslet said that she would not allow certain magazines in her house to prevent images of extremely skinny celebrities from negatively influencing her young daughter Mia.