Oscar-nominated actress Kate Winslet arrives at the 79th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, in February 2007. Winslet has donated libel damages she won over a magazine report saying she sought help for a weight problem to an eating disorder charity.(AFP file photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhuanet) -- The five-time Oscar nominee Kate Winslet, 31, won a public apology and undisclosed libel damages on Friday from a British magazine that reported she visited a diet doctor.

    Winslet's lawyer, Rachel Atkins said the weekly glossy, published by Britain's Emap Plc, reported Winslet had discussed treatment at a Chinese Healing Institute in California for her weight, despite vowing not to bow to Hollywood pressure on actresses to be skinny.

    Atkins said Winslet did receive treatment from a doctor there, but it was for a neck injury and not for weight.

    Winslet, a five-time Oscar nominee, immediately complained to the magazine, saying the article suggested she had lied to the public.

    In a statement released by her solicitors, Winslet said she was "delighted" the matter had been resolved. "Grazia magazine have apologised to me in full, and admitted that their story was incorrect, which gives me tremendous peace of mind. "

    "I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real. I shall continue to hope that women are able to believe in themselves for who they are inside, and not feel under such incredible pressure to be unnaturally thin."

    Her solicitors said she would be donating the unspecified but "substantial" damages payment to an eating disorder charity.

    Winslet has received Oscar nominations for her roles in "Little Children," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Iris," "Titanic" and "Sense and Sensibility."

(Agencies)