According to website Contactmusic, Winslet will not hesitate to attack any members of the media if they report that she is a bad mother again. The press showed little sympathy on her behalf when she divorced her first husband, Jim Threapleton, in 2000, when her daughter Mia was still a baby.
The star of the films Quills and Holy Smoke was accused of abandoning her child. Winslet explained, "People can throw anything at me they want, but don’t mess with me as a mother, because I will get out a knife and come after you. "It’s really not fair. It’s a vulnerable time. I was very young – I was 25. It was really, really hard."