Kate Winslet proved last night that when it comes to her beauty, natural trumps digital.
The actress looked positively radiant as she worked the red carpet at the New York premiere of her film The Reader alongside co-stars Ralph Fiennes and David Kross.
The Pilates devotee put her car-crash curves on display in a charcoal Herve Leger and towering metallic heels.
Last month, the mother-of-two, who had previously rallied against the use of Photoshopping, caused a furore after semi-nude pictures of her Vanity Fair magazine appeared to be heavily airbrushed.
Every tiny imperfection had been glossed over in the shoot in which Winslet posed in nothing but a cream coat sitting with her legs crossed and reclined naked on a chaise lounge on a fur blanket wearing just stockings and high-heels.
Image experts claimed the photos had been digitally altered while Vanity Fair said there had been a 'minimal amount of retouching' to the pictures.
Miss Winslet said she had worked hard to achieve her svelte figure ahead of the shoot.
In a recent interview with the Mail's Baz Bamigboye, Winslet admitted her glamorous appearance in the magazine was far from her real-life persona.
She said: 'The whole shoot was about doing the character. I feel like I was playing the part and not me - it doesn't feel like me.
'It took six hours to set up the lighting and the hair and make-up, because I obviously don't look like that all the time.'
Back in February 2003, Miss Winslet was apologetic when her image was digitally enhanced to make her look slimmer for a GQ magazine shoot.
The actress, who had always championed the fuller figure, said then: 'I don't want people to think I was a hypocrite and had suddenly gone and lost 30 pounds, which is something I would never do.
'And more importantly I don't want to look like that.'
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