Its really good that she had a good childhood 🙂

Kate Winslet’s parents have confirmed the star’s recent revelations she had an impoverished childhood – but insist it was a happy one.

Last month the Titanic star hit out at critics who assume she had a privileged upbringing because of her well-spoken accent – insisting the family was so poor she grew up wearing second-hand shoes.

The actress’ parents, Roger and Sally Winslet, confirmed their family struggled to make ends meet, and were forced to take cheap vacations in the south-west of England.

Roger says, “Everything Kate said is true. The only thing she forgot to say was how happy we were. Yes, the children only had 10p pocket money but in that day and age it was perfectly normal. That could get you a lot and they were never left wanting.

“We are as normal and abnormal as everyone else. We are ultimately a very private and loving family and that’s what is most important to me.”

Awww I love Kate, and I’m glad that she has put the record straight. She is such a lovely woman, love her !!!

Kate Winslet has hit out at critics who assume she had a privileged childhood – insisting her family was so poor she grew up wearing second-hand shoes.

The Titanic star is adamant her famously well-spoken accent is not an indication of a luxurious upbringing.

And she is insists her parents struggled to make ends meet – taking her on cheap vacations in the south-west of England and giving her 15 cents (10p) a week pocket money.

She tells Britain’s Marie Claire magazine, “People think I’m lying… My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a Tarmac firm, as a van driver. He’d sell Christmas trees. Anything. That was my dad.

“We had these dreadful second-hand cars that would always die a death, or we’d go on holiday to Cornwall, come back and it would have been nicked (stolen). It’s like a Joe Orton farce, my family. Honestly, it was hand-me-down shoes and 10p pocket money on a Saturday that didn’t go up until I was 11.”