Kate gets her curves out

She has always been proud of her curves - and in her latest film, Kate Winslet shows them off in sultry style.

In red stilettoes and a copper wig, she raises her flamenco-style dress waist high in a sensuous Latino dance number.

The provocative routine showed the 28-year-old actress has regained her shapely figure after the birth of her second child at Christmas.

And it also demonstrated how dance lessons for her role in Romance And Cigarettes had paid off.

'Kate looked very supple and had clearly mastered all the moves,' said an onlooker at the location in Brooklyn, New York.

'After seeming a little nervous at first, by the end of the scene you could see she was loving every second of it.'

She has just returned to filmmaking after having her second child, Joe, by director husband Sam Mendes. The Titanic star also has a threeyearold daughter, Mia, by first husband Jim Threapleton.

The actress has repeatedly suggested women should be more comfortable with fuller figures. 'I have nothing against people who are thin,' she said recently. 'But I am not like that and I don't want to be.'

In Romance And Cigarettes Sopranos star James Gandolfini is a husband who must chose between his mistress (Miss Winslet) and his wife, played by Susan Sarandon.