A listener asked Kate Winslet for advice on how to boost her sex drive with her long-time boyfriend during an episode of the ‘How to Fail with Elizabeth Day’ podcast last week. In response, the actress revealed that she found testosterone replacement therapy helpful for improving her libido.
“Sometimes women have a real dip in libido because there might be stuff going on with their thyroid. There could also be stuff going on with your level of testosterone,” she said.
“A lot of people don’t know this, but women have testosterone in their body, when it runs out — like eggs — it’s gone. And once it’s gone you have to replace it, and that is something that can be done and you’ll feel sexy again … I know.”
Winslet also touched on the topic of aging. She pointed out how women viewed the bodily change after the 40s in a negative light, noting, “First of all, so what? And secondly, it’s just conditioning.”
“I think women as they get older get juicier and sexier and more embedded in their truth of who they are and more powerful, more able to walk through the world and care less and that is an empowering thing,” the actress continued. “I say to my friends all the time, ‘You look amazing.’”
Kate Winslet promoted body positivity in her past interviews, as well. She encouraged women to celebrate ‘being a real shape, being soft and maybe having a few extra rolls’ while talking about her role in 2023’s ‘Lee’ in a chat with BBC.
“We’re so used to perhaps not necessarily seeing that and enjoying it. The instinct weirdly is to see it and criticize it,” the actress explained. “It’s interesting how much people do like labels for women. Life is too short. I don’t want to look back and go ‘Why did I worry about that thing,’ and so guess what – I don’t worry anymore.”
Winslet played a model turned World War II photographer in ‘Lee.’ Ellen Kuras directed the biographical drama about Lee Miller.
