Most celebs dream of the day a tabloid will describe them as “waiflike” and zoom in on their protruding ribcages. But Kate Winslet? Not so much. She actually sued Grazia magazine for claiming she had visited a diet doctor to help her slim down.

Why? Because she hadn’t. She’d visited the doctor in question—but for a neck injury. Of course, if a tabloid got sued every time it fudged the truth, most of them would be bankrupt within a month. So what made this fib lawsuit-worthy? Simple. This is the same woman whose curves inspired the new Jaguar XK8, the same woman who flipped out when Harper’s Bazaar trimmed her fat in Photoshop, and the same woman who says she wants women on film “portrayed as real women.” To say she was seeing a diet doctor, she claimed, was like saying she was a hypocrite.

So, do you think her argument is valid? I kind of do. And so did the London courts—she won. “I am not a hypocrite," she said in a statement afterwards. "I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to body/weight issues. I feel very strongly that ‘curves’ are natural, womanly and real.”

P.S. She’s donating the hefty damages to an eating disorder charity.

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