Kate Winslet said she felt it was her responsibility to "request an apology" from a British newspaper after the publication insinuated she was lying about not working out during this past award season. More details about the actress' libel suit after the jump...

Winslet won a payout of around $40,000 from the Daily Mail newspaper. "I strongly believe that women should be encouraged to accept themselves as they are, so to suggest that I was lying was an unacceptable accusation of hypocrisy," the Oscar winner said in a statement obtained by People.com.

In a London Court on Tuesday, the publication apologized for the article -- that was headlined "Should Kate Winslet win an Oscar for the World's most irritating actress?" -- and agreed to publish an apology and pay for damages and the actress' legal costs, according to People.

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