Article: Kate Winslet's sexy new confidence: Kate Winslet is more at ease in her own skin than ever before. Here, she gets personal about her life with director Sam Mendes, why she visited a nutritionist and the reason she thinks Alexander McQueen is a genius.(Cover Story)

It's a lovely summery morning in London, and Kate Winslet is looking just as she's always supposed to: down-to-earth and all sunshiny smiles. She doesn't live in the city anymore--having moved to the Cotswolds, in the heart of the English countryside, with her two children and second husband, Sam Mendes--so we're drinking tea in the kitchen of a house that belongs to one of her best friends. Kate swears like a sailor and laughs like a drain, and it's easy to forget that, at 28, she has been famous for close to a decade; that she's an A-list Hollywood celebrity, who is also married to a famous director.

But then the role of unpretentious, friendly normality is one ...

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