‘Leo's fatter now, and I'm thinner’: Kate Winslet's dig at her Titanic co-star, 15 years on

She famously struggled with her weight during the early years of her fame — but fifteen years after Titanic, Kate Winslet was in a joking mood about how things had flipped.

Promoting the 3D re-release of Titanic on ITV's Daybreak, Winslet looked back on making the film with Leonardo DiCaprio and took a playful swipe at her old co-star. "We do look very different, we're older," she said. "Leo's 37, I'm 36 — we were 21 and 22 when we made that film. You know, he's fatter now — I'm thinner." She added, laughing: "It's true though!"

Watching the film again for the 3D release was its own experience. "The second my face came on I was like, 'Oh my God, make it stop, switch it off, somebody make it stop, turn the sound down, is that what we looked like? Oh my God, look what I looked like and look what Leo looks like!'" she said. "It was completely bizarre — it was like somebody saying we're going to take a home video that we made of you that's three-and-a-half hours long and we're going to make the world watch it all over again."

The two have been friends for years — Winslet has often said DiCaprio is like a brother to her — and the ribbing was clearly affectionate. Claire Danes, who played opposite DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet, piled on the same week, joking that they were now "big fat grown-ups."

Quotes from Winslet's April 2012 interview on ITV's Daybreak.

She famously struggled with her weight during the early years of her fame.

But now that Kate Winslet has achieved a figure she is content with, the actress can look back on her most well-known film, Titanic, and smile smugly.

Because while most fans of the film were distracted by how devastatingly handsome Leonardo DiCaprio was at the time, and Kate got stick for her weight, the actress believes that she's aged better than her co-star.

She said: 'We do look very different, we