Kate Winslet’s Gen Z Daughter Does not Have Social Media

Mia Threapleton, 24, says her mom, Kate Winslet, influenced her choice to not have social media.

In an interview with Elle printed on Thursday, the actor spoke about her upbringing and the way her well-known mom formed her choice to stay a non-public life.

Threapleton advised Elle that she would not have any social media accounts and would not plan on creating them anytime quickly.

“Individuals say, ‘Oh, properly executed,’ to not having it, however I’ve by no means had it, so I do not actually know what the ‘Properly executed’ is for. I do not need it. I do not need to fear about dropping my cellphone out of a tree if I am climbing one as a result of I am attempting to take a photograph of one thing,” Threapleton stated.

A part of it comes from the extraordinary public scrutiny her mom confronted on the top of her “Titanic” fame. Winslet has spoken a number of occasions about how she felt bullied and bodyshamed by the media after the film got here out.

Threapleton stated her mom made a degree to instill physique confidence from a younger age, together with occasions when she was insecure about displaying her shoulders whereas swimming.

“My mother stated, ‘No, that is robust. So many individuals would love to have the ability to swim the size of the pool the best way you do — consider it as a constructive factor,'” Threapleton stated, recalling her mom’s phrases.

This is not the primary time that Threapleton has spoken about how her mom performed a task in her choice to not use social media.

In a Could 17 interview with The Occasions, Threapleton stated her mom inspired her to make an inventory of execs and cons for becoming a member of Instagram when she was 14.

“The cons fully outweighed the professionals for me. That was fairly a clarifying second. Since then, the extra time I spend on this world, the extra I am actually glad that I haven’t got it,” she stated.

Winslet herself has additionally been vocal in regards to the dangerous impression of social media on children.

In 2023, throughout an look on BBC Radio 4’s “Girl’s Hour,” the “Little Kids” actor spoke about why she believes children should not have social media and smartphones.

“It is tampering with, generally, a really primary degree of vanity. However on a much bigger and darker scale, it is tampering with younger folks’s vanity to the extent that they’re fully shedding a way of who they’re, and do not know learn how to talk not simply with their buddies however their households,” Winslet stated.

A number of nations around the globe are attempting to implement stricter controls on social media use for youths.

In November, Australia’s authorities permitted a legislation banning social media for youngsters underneath 16. Norway additionally introduced final yr that it was exploring a sweeping social-media ban for youngsters underneath 15.

Representatives for Threapleton and Winslet didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark despatched by Enterprise Insider exterior common hours.