A little photo-shoot airbrushing is as normal a part of celebrity life as 2 o'clock Botox injections and praying to Xenu.

Not so for Kate Winslet, however. The five-time Oscar nominee's new sans-pants photo spread for Vanity Fair created a field day in the British press yesterday, with everyone from The Sun to The Telegraph claiming the down-to-earth actress went – gasp! -- under the brush. While the rest of us (including Britney Spears) shrug and wish we were a little handier with Photoshop, Winslet is reportedly livid at the suggestion.

"Kate is furious at suggestions that her body has been airbrushed," her rep tells People.

At stake is Winslet's rep for keeping it real – which is prominently on display in the Vanity Fair profile. The 33-year-old actress and mother of two comes off as charmingly frank in the piece, spilling frequent f-bombs and talking about everything from how much she’d like an Oscar ("Do I want it? You bet your fucking ass I do!"), to her body image.

"I never had a desire to be famous. I never had huge ambitions – never.… I was fat," Winslet, who weighed nearly 200 pounds in high school, tells Vanity Fair. "I didn’t know any fat famous actresses. I just did not see myself in that world at all, and I’m being very sincere. You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that."

Winslet's now-enviable curves have a history of being "edited" by fashion mags, however. In 2003, the British edition of GQ drew her ire when they gave her a computer-assisted extreme makeover. "I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that," Winslet told the press in '03. "It wasn't that they simply retouched my image -- they completely stretched it so I looked like I was six feet tall and a size two."

As for the Vanity Fair pics, the actress' rep explains that the only time the airbrush came out was for tweaking skin tones.

"She is in terrific shape and what you see is how she looks or she would never have agreed to pose for those shots," her rep tells the Telegraph.

In that case, what are Winslet's fitness tips? As she told Vanity Fair, "Everyone can commit to 20 minutes [of working out], especially if there's a glass of Chardonnay afterwards." Sign us up -- especially for that last bit.

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