July 29: Kate and Mia attended the Reading music festival:

"Kate Winslets Herself Go With Baby Mia"

Film star Kate Winslet showed how much she's enjoying her new role as mum while clowning around with her eight-month-old daughter, Mia. They were among thousands of revelers at the Womad world music festival in Reading, Berkshire.

The 25-year-old Titanic star, who is married to film director Jim Threapleton, has just finished shooting her latest movie, Iris, about the late author Iris Murdoch. Appropriately she is now in talks to play a mother - Mother Teresa.

June 29: Go HERE to read the article, "Kate Winslet Goes on Holiday With Jim and Baby Mia" from OK! magazine. It includes two great photos!

June 11: Today's issue of the Daily Mail included a brief article and three great photos of Jim out with Mia. GO!

March 5: Thank goodness Mia is all right now! I found this item in today's report from peoplenews.com:
''Kate 'distraught' over baby'' -- Whooping cough ordeal for Mia
Kate Winslet had to race her baby to hospital after she was diagnosed with potentially fatal whooping cough. The 25-year-old was advised to take five-month-old Mia in for treatment and observation. Mia is now healthy and back at home with Winslet and her director husband Jim Threapleton. Friends of the Titanic actress said she had been 'distraught' with worry when she discovered that what she thought was a cold could be far more serious. The incubation period for whooping cough is usually about a fortnight - it starts in the same way as a cold with a runny nose, weeping eyes and a cough. Later the patient suffers coughing fits and vomiting. Mia caught whooping cough despite being immunised against it at the age of two months. A friend of the couple said: 'Kate and Jim made sure she had the injections but Mia still appeared to pick it up.' Winslet had taken time off since Mia was born, but next month she starts work on her next film, which is being shot at Shepperton. The film, a version of Zola's novel Therese Raquin, is a story of murder and illicit passion.

February 3: The Sydney Morning Herald has picked up the wonderful photo of Kate and Mia at the airport and included this article:
"Mama, Mia - Being a Mum Gives Kate a Buzz," by Eddie Fitzmaurice
    Actress Kate Winslet flew into London's Heathrow Airport yesterday proudly displaying her most amazing production yet - four-month-old daughter Mia. The Titanic star, whose latest movie Quills with co-star Geoffrey Rush has just been released in Britain, was returning home from Scotland where she had been visiting friends. And with little Mia tucked up in a baby harness, 25-year-old Kate was a picture of maternal pride.
    Winslet's sights were firmly set on her little girl. "Mia is absolutely gorgeous - she's transformed my world," she said. "She's just had her first flight and she has been so good. Isn't she lovely? We've been in this little baby cocoon since the day she was born. She is so precious that for the first few days we were worried about breaking her, and every nappy change would take 30 minutes. Now it takes 30 seconds. We're getting quicker at these things and realising babies are not as fragile as we think."
    The happy scene was a world away from Winslet's steamy role in Quills, which tells the harrowing story of 18th century French aristocrat the Marquis de Sade. Winslet, twice nominated for an Oscar for her parts in Titanic and Sense And Sensibility, plays a laundry girl at the lunatic asylum where the marquis, played by Rush, is locked up.

The movie has been given an R rating in Britain. Winslet's next movie will be an adaptation of French writer Emile Zola's Therese Raquin, a grisly tale of crime and passion in 19th century Paris.

Here are two more stories that appeared in UK papers February 2nd:
"It's Mama and Mia" - 'Titanic' star Kate Winslet looked radiant yesterday with daughter Mia as she returned from a holiday in Scotland. The actress carried her three-month-old tot through Heathrow in a leather sling after her low-key trip north of the border. It's no secret Kate, 25, loves Scotland, and she and husband Jim Threapleton spent their 1998 honeymoon in Dunoon. Kate recently hit the headlines after saying she needs to slim after Mia's birth. But the extra weight wasn't playing on her mind yesterday, and she looked like a young mum without a care in the world.

"Hold Me Tight-anic Mummy" - Titanic star Kate Winslet is in her best role yet - as a mum. Kate, 25, glowed with pride as she flew into London with baby Mia. The actress carried four-month-old Mia in a sling and stroked her fingers as she posed for photos. Kate had been in Glasgow and it was Mia's first flight. The tot seemed a bit bewildered by it all. Don't fret, Mia, you're quite safe with mum. But we wouldn't recommend getting on a boat with her!

January 23: The January 26 issue of OK! Magazine features new pics of Kate walking Mia. The pics, along with the article, are posted on a separate page. Thanks to 'Disposable Heroine' for the tip.

January 7: Kate spoke about Mia and her pregnancy during an interview for the UK Sunday Times Magazine:
    Within a matter of minutes, and quite unbidden, Kate Winslet is showing me her knickers - big, black, high-waisted ones with a special tummy-control panel from Marks & Spencer. "Nothing fits any more," she announces, running me through the maternity jacket and trousers and the oversized white shirt that have been her posh get-up since her much publicised pregnancy. She gained four stone - and produced the 8lb-9oz reason why none of this matters, why she laughs as she prods her rounded stomach. Her three-week-old daughter, Mia, is being taken for a walk by her father, while Kate remembers how to play an actress promoting her new film. Although she is as willing and companionable as ever - Winslet is the best sport of film stars - her heart isn't in it. We find ourselves talking against an immutable deadline: not a dragon PR with a stopwatch, but a hungry baby wanting her feed, calling to the new mother with a telepathy the latter cannot resist. Sweet, but she is here to discuss revolting sexual practices [in her new film].
    [She is] far more interested in discussing her water retention. Her pregnancy was joyful but also fraught; she found it impossible to bond with her baby in the early stages, swelled up like a balloon, and could not have fitted her naked bump on the cover of a glossy magazine a la Demi Moore even if she had been asked, which we can reasonably assume she was not. "There is a lot of pressure to have a sexy, womanly, fulfilling pregnancy, but I didn't feel like that. I was huge, massive. I put on four stone. I'm still two stone overweight. I held a lot of water and I was very uncomfortable. Mia was 10 days late and by then I was climbing the walls. The birth was natural, and somehow I just coped with the pain. It was the most amazing experience from start to finish. Jim was with me the whole time. As soon as she was out I thought, 'I want to do that again, I'll do that any day.'" For someone who can work as little as 12 weeks a year, there are no pressing concerns of "palming her off" on a nanny. The couple will take it in turns to stay at home, and Winslet is highly unlikely to accept offers that take her further than short-haul trips for a while. "Sometimes Jim and I just look at each other, and go, 'Oh God! We're doing all this and we're so young!' It's great, but we don't think about it too much because it freaks us out."
    When her leave period is up she will produce and star in Therese Raquin, Zola's grisly depiction of crime and passion among the Parisian lower classes. It is, she says earnestly, all about love that sours to hate and murder, and proof to Winslet that having a baby has not softened her taste for a racy challenge.

January 7, 2001: Kate says Mia is a 'fun baby' during an interview for the Radio Times:
Some visitors are drinking coffee at the kitchen table, and when Mia begins to cry she tells Threapleton there's freshly expressed breast milk in the fridge. "She's a real fun baby. Some are well fed up with life from the beginning, but she's delighted to be here. Motherhood beats anything hands down."

December 8: This brief article is from a recent issue of NOW Magazine, and was accompanied by pics you'll find in the Mia Gallery:
Kate's in great shape for all those late nights - Kate Winslet's always scoffed at the idea that all actresses need to be skinny stereotypes. But she's making sure that she gets back in shape after the birth of her daughter Mia last month. Kate, 25, was accompanied by husband, film director Jim Threapleton, and a very well wrapped-up Mia in her car seat for a trip to a Pilates class in South London. Jim, 26, was happy to carry Mia and check that she was keeping warm as the couple left to return to their home, a converted pumphouse by the River Thames in Surrey.

November 21: "Celebrity News" has published today comments from Kate taken from a recent interview:
"Kate Winslet In Own Baby World" -- British actress Kate Winslet has lost touch with reality since the birth of her daughter Mia. Kate has revealed she's been totally obsessed with motherhood since giving birth to her first child last month. She gushes, "Mia's teeny-weeny and she's always not very far away. My mind has been so much on her that it's bizarre to find myself re-engaging with the real world. She's absolutely gorgeous. She's transformed my world." Hubby Jim Threapleton is equally wrapped up in the baby Kate calls, "my most amazing production yet." The proud mum laughs, "We've been in this little baby cocoon since the day she was born. Jim is brilliant with her and there are times when I look at him with her and wish I could be as good as he is."

November 14: I found this mention of Kate in the Guardian:
"Life After Birth" -- It is true that [Meg] Mathews' apparent post-natal haste to return to the party scene does not fit with our tender image of the rosily radiant new mother. Kate Winslet, by contrast, fits perfectly. "I'm a lot less hectic than I was," she said last week in her first interview since her daughter's birth in October. "I've stopped smoking and I've become a much calmer, softer person. I'm becoming much more squishy and emotional." I've always appreciated Kate Winslet as a figure - boldly three-dimensional and messy in a world of personally trained, tightly smiling x-rays. But I'm not so sure about this latest, madonna-like incarnation - I don't think motherhood makes very many women "less hectic"... In fact, I think motherhood makes you tougher… Even Kate Winslet may well, in a week's time, need to put the baby down for half an hour while she gets some sleep.

November 10: The UK Express picked up some quotes from the recent interview published in the Mirror:
Kate Winslet, who gave birth to a daughter, Mia, last month, will be choosing her future projects carefully to ensure she will be able to spend as much time as possible at home with the baby. "It's very important that Mia isn't bundled off to film locations," she says. "I won't be working for about six months and when I do it will be near home." The 25-year-old actress, who is married to assistant film director Jim Threapleton, will begin work in the spring on the period drama Therese Raquin, which she is also producing. "It will be filmed at Shepperton which is only half an hour from where I live," she said.

November 9: The Sydney Morning Herald carried a story about Kate's appearance at the London Film Festival last week:
New mum Kate Winslet was all smiles when she made her first public appearance since the birth of her daughter - but said she hated having to leave baby Mia at home. The Titanic star was in London's West End for the premiere of her new movie Quills. But she said it was "horrible being parted" from little Mia, who was born just three weeks ago and who was being looked after by her father, film director Jim Threapleton. "It's horrible, really awful, she is back at the hotel with her daddy," Winslet said. While she enjoyed working on the film she now intended to take seven months off to spend some time with her husband and new born child. "Motherhood will always come first," she said.

November 8: I found this mention of Kate at the London Film Festival in an online tabloid:
"Winslet Says Mum's The Word"
Kate Winslet was beaming this week as she arrived at the London Film Festival premiere of her new movie Quills, in which she plays a maid to the Marquis de Sade. This was her first public appearance since giving birth to her baby daughter Mia, and she told Independent Televison News that she hated having to leave the infant at home. Winslet said it was "horrible being parted" from little Mia, who was born just three weeks ago and who was being looked after by her father, film director Jim Threapleton. "It's horrible, really awful, she is back at the hotel with her daddy," Winslet told ITN.  While she enjoyed working on the film she now intended to take seven months off to spend some time with her husband and new born child. "Motherhood will always come first," she said. Quills also stars Sir Michael Caine and Geoffrey Rush and was directed by Philip Kaufman.

November 4: From The Sun:

"Star Kate's Gone Totless"
Kate Winslet went totless at a film premiere last night - by turning up without her new baby Mia. Kate, 25, told fans it felt "really horrible" leaving Mia behind. Her trip to a screening of her new movie Quills was her first public outing since the birth. Co-stars Michael Caine and Joaquin Phoenix joined Kate at the West End premiere.

November 4: From Sky News:
"Kate's Great - Despite Missing Mia"
    Kate Winslet braved the cold to make her first public appearance since the birth of her daughter. The star thrilled crowds at the premiere of Quills, the latest movie to take centre stage within the London Film Festival. Yet wearing a black top and trousers and floor length satin jacket, she admitted it was a wrench to leave Mia behind - and confessed she was taking seven months off to spend time with her.
    'Children most important thing'  -- She said: "It's horrible, really awful, she is back at the hotel with her daddy. Motherhood will always come first. Children are the most important thing to me. It's just not about being a famous actor. It's about privacy and my own life - and now Mia."
   Winslet was joined by co-stars Michael Caine and Joaquin Phoenix, who larked about for the scores of gathered fans.  

    Quills, directed by Philip Kaufman, is based on the life of the notorious Marquis de Sade, and is already attracting talk of Oscar nominations next spring. The 25-year-old Titanic star plays Madeline LeCrec, who smuggles the Marquis de Sade's last writings out of a mental asylum.
    Winslet gave birth to Mia last month at a London hospital. She married husband Jim Threapleton nearly two years ago in Oxfordshire.
    The London Film Festival has had a great start with British premieres for Cameron Crowe's much-hyped Almost Famous and the latest Merchant Ivory offering, The Golden Bowl.

November 3: News of Kate's appearance at the London premiere of Quills, from Ananova:
     New mum Kate Winslet was all smiles as she made her first public appearance since the birth of her daughter - but she said she hated having to leave baby Mia at home. The Titanic star was in London's West End for the premiere of her new movie Quills. Her smile was beaming as she arrived at the Odeon West End in Leicester Square wearing a black top and trousers and floor length satin jacket.But it was "horrible being parted" from little Mia, who was born just three weeks ago and who was being looked after by her father, film director Jim Threapleton. "It's horrible, really awful, she is back at the hotel with her daddy," Winslet said. While she enjoyed working on the film she now intended to take seven months off to spend some time with her husband and new born child. "Motherhood will always come first," she said.
    In the film about the Marquis de Sade, which was being screened as part of the 44th London Film Festival, Winslet plays a chambermaid. Quills also stars Sir Michael Caine and Geoffrey Rush and was directed by Philip Kaufman. Sir Michael said he had very much enjoyed working on the rather "dark" movie. It also stars Joaquin Phoenix, who said it was a "real honour" to work with such a distinguished actor as Sir Michael.

October 19: I found this nice item on WENN about Kate's and Jim's commitment to baby Mia. Kate's comments are taken from an article published in the November issue of Interview magazine:
"Kate Winslet's Husband Becomes Stay-At-Home Dad"
New mum Kate Winslet's husband Jim Threapleton is going to become a stay-at-home father, so he can bring up baby Mia while Winslet works. Kate, who gave birth to her first child last week, says she's not going to hire any nannies to look after her daughter - she and her husband are going to do it all themselves. Winslet says, "We're hoping not to have child care, certainly in the early months. I know some actors that do three movies a year, and I've just never done that. So I'm not concerned that the work-load will lessen because I'm suddenly a mother, it'll probably remain about the same. When I'm doing Therese Raquin next year, Jim is not going to work, so he'll be with the baby - which is very important to him." And Winslet adds she's not going to be taking Mia on set with her, because she wants to give her a chance to choose her own career. She says, "I'd hate to influence my children by having them around on set a lot. Children have so much growing up to do before they can really decide what they want to be."

October 18: I found this item in This Is Cornwall:
"Winslet Won't Sell Out On Baby Mia"
Kate Winslet has refused to sell pictures of her new baby, Mia.
The Titanic star proudly posed for free with her daughter and her husband Jim Threapleton - shunning the trend for celebrities selling the first photos of their children to glossy magazines. Instead Winslet, 25, invited photographer Julian Cornish Tresttral to take a picture of the happy family. A friend told The Sun: "She doesn't think of her life in cash terms. She's aware of how much money she could demand but thinks it's tacky to cash in on your children."
A deal with Hello! or OK! could have earnt Winslet and Threapleton up to £500,000. But she is following the example of friend Emma Thompson who rejected offers for pictures of her with daughter Gaia. However other celebrities like Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones have cashed in on parenthood. They were paid £600,000 by OK!

October 18: Intermedia has posted the news of Mia's birth on their site:
"Kate Gives Birth to Baby Mia"
Kate Winslet has given birth to a baby girl, which she and husband Jim Threapleton have named Mia. Mia was born in a London hospital on Thursday October 12, and weighed 8 pounds 9 ounces at birth. Mother and baby are fine, and are now back at home.
Winslet's New York-based publicist Robert Garlock told The Associated Press that the name Mia was a spontaneous choice. "Kate and Jim had drawn up a list of ten names, but when the baby was born, none of them seemed right," he said. "Then Mia came to them, and it seemed just right."
Winslet and Threapleton have a production deal with Intermedia through their Telltale Films company. The actress filmed the wartime code-cracking thriller Enigma with Intermedia this summer, and is also developing historical drama Therese Raquin with the company.

October 18: I found this item on the Ananova news site. The comments by Beth were taken from an interview that appeared earlier this month:
"Winslet Baby Boom 'Like a Disney Story'" --
    Beth Winslet has laughed off suggestions that she has been in a race with sister Kate to become a mum. Beth is expecting next month - just weeks after Kate gave birth to daughter Mia. "It is just a crazy coincidence, like some sort of Walt Disney story," said Beth. But it's odd how this kind of thing happens with sisters or close friends. Everyone gets pregnant together. "I expect I shall pick up a few tips from her but I haven't even started buying baby stuff yet. That's still to come. Our parents are thrilled to bits, really. They are looking forward to Christmas and having lots of babies in the house. It will be funny with the two of us wheeling our prams around together. But it will quite a special time for the whole family."
    Beth, whose new film Bodywork is being released in the UK on Friday, is having her first child with the movie's director Gareth Rhys Jones. "We started talking about it for quite a while. The main reason is that I work with children and have always wanted them. I wouldn't want to leave it too late. I like the idea of having a large family. "
    Beth is thrilled at becoming an auntie and insists there's no rivalry between the Winslet golden girls. Eldest sister Anna is also an actress who concentrates on the stage.

October 17: Here's another take on the no-money-for-baby-picture story from "Anorak":
"Cheap and Cheerful" -
    Where Becks and Posh made some dosh and Michael and Catherine sealed the deal, Kate and Jim have gone all moral. By avoiding the tantalising temptations of media money, Kate Winslet and husband Jim Threapleton have done the "decent" thing, the "honourable" thing, and released pics of them with their new-born girl, Mia, for zilch. That's right, they're not making a single penny from the photos, which the Mirror reveals with a satirical edge. "Hello Mia!" it cries. "You're OK by us, Kate." In having a dig at Britain's most beloved celebrity magazines, the paper is also slamming the plethora of stars who have cashed in on pictures of their children.
    Posh and Becks' £1m from OK! may have been "ludicrous", but the D-list of materialistic mothers and fathers reads like an extract from an Australian 'Who's Who' in the 1780s. "Luciana Morad was paid £200,000 when pictured with her son Lucas," it explains, "while GMTV's Fiona Phillips and husband Martin Frizzell appeared in Hello! with son Nathaniel."
    The message is that it's simply not right for these people to make money on the back of their celeb-status. "But Kate has never been one for making money from her fame," the paper pledges. So she didn't make much from that movie she did! What was it called? Oh yeah, Titanic.
    But if you don't sell the pics, you lose the rights, and out the door goes the trusty "exclusive" caption. Realising this, the Express catches on, but with far less irony. "Kate's girl shows star quality on her film debut," it gushes.
We then get Kate's agent, Robert Garlock, explaining the choice of Mia - "the Italian word meaning 'mine'." But the couple have yet to think of a second name. How about libre? Which poetically translated would mean, 'My Free Threapleton'.
Hmm, there's a difference between accepting money for a photo of your child and accepting money for your own hard work!

October 17: The Sun carried the pic of the happy family, along with this item:
"Kate's Little Blockbuster," by Antonella Lazzeri --
    Titanic star Kate Winslet and hubby Jim Threapleton show off their own little blockbuster yesterday - baby daughter Mia. Actress Kate, 25, gave birth to Mia at a London hospital five days ago. But the tot - who weighed in at a healthy 8lb 9oz - made her first public appearance yesterday as the happy couple prepared to return home.
    Last night Kate's mum Sally said the actress was "absolutely over the moon" after becoming a mum. Kate's dad Roger, speaking at the family's home in Reading, Berks, added: "The first grandchild is always very special - and Mia is really very beautiful. Mum and baby are doing just fine although I think Kate wants a bit of time to relax. Mia is a gorgeous child but we're not quite sure who she looks like yet."
    Kate's spokesman said she and Jim, 26, chose Mia because they thought it was "a really beautiful name".
    She is planning a break from films.

October 17: This is the coverage from E! Online:
"A Baby Mia For Kate Winslet," by Emily Farache
Oct 16, 2000, 11:00 AM PT
    A stork delivery of titanic proportions has happened across the pond. British actress Kate Winslet and her husband Jim Threapleton gave birth to a baby girl, Mia, her agent Robert Garlock said. Both mother and daughter are reportedly doing well.
    The 25-year-old star gave birth in London last Thursday. "Kate and Jim had drawn up a list of 10 names but when the baby was born, none of them seemed right," Garlock told Reuters. "Then Mia came to them and it seemed just right. There is no family significance, they just thought it was a really beautiful name."
    Winslet is taking a seven-month break from her acting career to be with her baby. The young actress, who starred with American heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio in the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Titanic, has said her career will not come before family.  "I've never been one for changing what is real in order to make my career buzz," she said in March. Winslet said she had no fears about motherhood disrupting her movie work. "My career comes second. There are some actors who do back-to-back jobs and are anxious when others are in the limelight. That's not me."
    In August, she and her husband, 26, moved into a $1.17 million riverside home in southern England.
Winslet met her husband on the set of the movie Hideous Kinky in 1997, where Threapleton served as assistant director. The couple married in November 1998.
    The actress has two films yet to hit theaters--Quills, about the life of the Marquis de Sade, and Enigma, about a race against time to decipher a code during World War II.

October 17: I found this great story in the Daily Record:
"Just Priceless" - Kate refuses to charge for baby photos --
Titanic star Kate Winslet and her husband Jim proudly show off their newborn daughter Mia. But unlike others in the showbiz world who cash in on their private lives at every turn, the couple's first baby photos were free. This intimate photograph could easily have fetched up to half a million pounds from a Hello! or an OK! style glossy magazine. But for down-to-earth Kate, 25, and 26-year-old husband Jim Threapleton, the images of little Mia were priceless.
    The actress invited her photographer pal Julian Cornish Tresttral to her room at a private London hospital and the couple happily posed with their first child.
    It was a far cry from Posh and Becks who were paid pounds 1million for OK! to photograph their wedding. The multi-millionaire duo also received another six-figure sum when they introduced Brooklyn to the world. Another proud mum, Men Behaving Badly star Caroline Quentin, showed off baby Emily Rose for pounds 200,000 alongside husband Sam Farmer. Mick Jagger's mistress Luciana Morad got the same sum for her own glossy shoot with son Lucas. An Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones and David Bowie and his supermodel wife Iman also pocketed fortunes for posing with their new babies.
    Yesterday, straightforward Kate shunned money and just wanted the world to share her delight.
Mia was born last Thursday weighing 8lb 9oz.
    In November 1998 when she married Jim, Kate also shunned offers for exclusive rights to her wedding pics.  Instead she gathered her fiends and family around her at the family church in her hometown of Reading and happily posed for the cameras.
    A friend said: "Kate just isn't one of those people who thinks of her entire life in cash terms. But the bottom line is Kate thinks it's just tacky to cash in on your own children as some have done."

October 17: A similar article appears in the Mirror:
HELLO MIA! TITANIC ACTRESS KATE WINSLET AND HUSBAND JIM THREAPLETON PRESENT THEIR FIRST CHILD --
AND HERE ARE SOME OF THOSE WHO DID TAKE THE MONEY
    Actress Kate Winslet and husband Jim Threapleton pose proudly with their latest production - baby daughter Mia. And unlike many showbiz stars, down-to-earth Kate refused to turn motherhood into a profit-making venture by selling the picture to a glossy magazine.  A deal with Hello! or OK! style publications could have earned her up to pounds 500,000.  But instead, Kate, 25, yesterday invited photographer pal Julian Cornish Tresttral to take this charming picture at the private hospital in London where she had Mia. For Titanic beauty Kate, the joy of starting a family with film director Jim, 26, was reward enough. So in her honour we've displayed the family's first picture in a special page, left, that celebrates her refusal to cash in.
    Kate's friend Emma Thompson also rejected offers for snaps of her with daughter Gaia, and Zoe Ball and DJ husband Norman Cook said no to a deal over their wedding. Their approach was in stark contrast to other celebrities. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones - who have a combined fortune estimated at more than pounds 200million - were paid pounds 600,000 by OK! for photos of them with baby son Dylan. David and Victoria Beckham may be a pounds 25million couple, but were happy to take pounds 1million from OK! for wedding photos and another six-figure sum when they showed baby Brooklyn to the world. Mick Jagger's mistress Luciana Morad was paid up to pounds 200,000 when pictured with son Lucas, while GMTV's Fiona Phillips and husband Martin Frizzell appeared in Hello! with son Nathaniel. Coronation Street's Tina Hobley and her husband Steve Wallington cashed in by posing with baby Isabelle. And Tina's colleague James Gaddas - builder Vinny Sorrell in the soap - also got in on the act when wife Deborah gave birth to daughter Cate.
    But Kate has never been one for making money from her fame. In 1998 she and Jim shunned offers for exclusive rights to their wedding pictures. A friend said "Kate doesn't think of her entire life in cash terms. She's aware of how much money she could demand but thinks it's tacky to cash in on your children."

October 17: I found this article in the UK Telegraph. Roger Winslet reveals there is no middle name chosen yet for Mia, and there were no complications to the birth:
    Kate Winslet is to take a seven-month break from her Hollywood career to be with her daughter, Mia. Motherhood, she said, was more important than stardom.  The 25-year-old star of Titanic, who married Jim Threapleton, 26, the son of an RAF officer, two years ago, was particularly happy, she said, because her sister, Beth, had just found out that she was pregnant. Robert Garlock, Winslet's New York agent, said: "Kate and Jim had drawn up a list of 10 names, but when the baby was born, none of them seemed right. Then Mia, from the Italian 'mine', came to them, and it seemed just right. There is no family significance. They just thought it a beautiful name."
    Her father, Roger, said at the family home in Reading: "We are naturally over the moon about the birth. The first grandchild is always special and she is beautiful." He said that the baby, 8lb 9oz, was born on Thursday without complications. "Both are going fine, although I think Kate needs a bit of time to relax. We love the name of Mia. They haven't thought of a second name yet."
    Winslet met her husband, an assistant film director, on the set of Hideous Kinky in Morocco. They have established a production company, Telltale Films, to develop and produce British and European films. She said: "I adore babies and children, and Jim and I want three or four."
[I don't understand the reference to Beth, as she is due next month!]

October 17: Here's the UK Times version of the "special delivery" story:
"Winslet Shows Off New Baby Mia," by Adam Sherwin
The actress Kate Winslet showed off her newborn baby daughter Mia yesterday, before returning home from hospital with the child. The star of Titanic chose the name, which comes from the Italian word meaning "mine", after giving birth to the 8lb 9oz baby on Thursday morning. Winslet, 25, and her husband Jim Threapleton, 26, an assistant film director, had been caring for the child in a London hospital since the birth and were given permission to return home yesterday.
Winslet's agent, Robert Garlock, said: "Kate and Jim had drawn up a list of ten names but when the baby was born none of them seemed right. Then `Mia' came to them and it seemed just right. There is no family significance, they just thought it was a really beautiful name. Kate said Mia was absolutely gorgeous and that they are all doing very well."
Winslet was said to be looking forward to a seven-month career break so that she can spend time with her first child.
She married her husband two years ago after they met during the filming of Hideous Kinky in Morocco. Winslet kept busy with work up until the birth. Five months into her pregnancy she filmed the war drama Enigma, based on the bestselling Second World War story by Robert Harris, which is due for release next year.

October 16: The television entertainment news programs E! News Daily and Entertainment Tonight announced Mia's arrival, but did not show the new pic of baby and parents. Access Hollywood did not carry the news in tonight's edition.

October 16: I found this story on ITN:
"Kate And Baby Ready To Go Home"
Hollywood star Kate Winslet and her producer husband Jim Threapleton are preparing to bring their little daughter home from hospital. Baby Mia was born last week, weighing in at 8lb 9oz.
The 25-year-old Titanic actress chose the name after deciding none of the names she had short-listed were suitable. Winslet's agent Robert Garlock said: "Kate and Jim had drawn up a list of 10 names, but when the baby was born none of them seemed right.  Then Mia came to them, and it seemed just right.  There is no family significance, they just thought it was a really beautiful name." He added: "Kate said Mia was absolutely gorgeous and that they are all doing very well."

Winslet was said to be looking forward to a seven-month career break so she can raise her daughter.
Kate, who is from Reading in Berkshire, and 26-year-old Jim married two years ago after meeting during the filming of Hideous Kinky in Morocco.
Winslet was working right up until Mia's birth. Five months into her pregnancy she filmed the war drama Enigma, based on a best-selling Second World War story by Robert Harris.
And during the summer, she bought a £200,000 home in Cornwall and an old pump house overlooking the Thames in London.
Kate and Jim have already announced they plan to have several children.

October 16: From BBC News:
"Winslet Shows Off Mia"
Actress Kate Winslet has released the first picture of her baby Mia [see top of this page], who was born on Thursday.
The 25-year-old Titanic star and her director husband Jim Threapleton, 26, were due to leave hospital on Monday with Mia, who weighed 8lb 9oz when she was born at a London hospital.

Winslet's New York-based agent Robert Garlock said they had ruled out a list of names before deciding on Mia, which comes from the Italian word meaning "mine". "Kate and Jim had drawn up a list of 10 names, but when the baby was born none of them seemed right," he said. "Then Mia came to them, and it seemed just right. There is no family significance, they just thought it was a really beautiful name."
On Monday, Winslet's parents Roger and Sally said they were thrilled with news of their first grandchild. "We are naturally over the moon about it," Roger said. "The first grandchild is always very special and she is really beautiful." They are due a second grandchild soon, as their youngest daughter Beth is also expecting a child.
Career break --
Winslet has said she is looking forward to taking a seven-month career break to be with her daughter. In an interview before the pregnancy was announced Winslet said that she considered a happy - and large - family more important than stardom or professional success. She worked almost up until the birth. Five months into her pregnancy she filmed war drama Enigma, based on a best-selling Second World War story by Robert Harris.
The new parents will still be keeping busy in the film world with their production company Telltale Films, which aims to develop and produce UK and European-based movies.

October 16: From Ananova news:
"Premiere For Titanic Star's Baby Mia" --
Kate Winslet has been pictured for the first time with baby daughter Mia. [See top of page]

The 25-year-old actress celebrated the birth of her first child with her husband, director Jim Threapleton.
Mia, who was born last Thursday at an undisclosed London hospital, weighed 8lb 9oz (3.3kg).
The birth marks the start of a self-imposed career break for Winslet, who had been busy working on projects up until the last minute.
Quills, her movie with Geoffrey Rush and Joaquin Phoenix, receives its world premiere at the London Film Festival on November 3.
The council in Kate's home town of Reading is to name a street in her honour. The site of an old cinema in the town centre will be named Winslet Close.

October 16: This item is from Empire Online:
"Winslet's New Addition" -
Oscar-nominated actress Kate Winslet has given birth to her first child. Winslet and her husband, director Jim Threapleton, celebrated the birth of a daughter last Thursday (12 October 2000).  In an announcement by the star's publicist today, the couple revealed that the baby, born in London, will be called Mia.
The birth marks the start of a self-imposed career break for Winslet who's been busy working on projects up until the last minute. Quills, her movie with Geoffrey Rush and Joaquin Phoenix receives its world premiere at the London Film Festival on 3 November 2000.
It's been a good week for Winslet who has just heard that the council in her home town of Reading are about to name a street in her honour. The site of an old cinema in the town centre will be named Winslet Close.

A few more of the many online news sites that covered the news of the birth (no new info):
CNN
ABC News
Hollywood.com
People.com
Jam! Showbiz
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Florida Sun-Sentinel
St. Louis Post
Star Tribune
San Jose Mercury News
Salt Lake Tribune
Topeka Capital-Journal
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Washington Post

October 15: I found this coverage of the baby news by the Associated Press - it was picked up by Fox News and the Boston Globe.
"Star of 'Titanic' Gives Birth to Baby Girl"
By Associated Press, 10/15/2000 18:04
LONDON (AP) ''Titanic'' star Kate Winslet and her newborn daughter Mia are doing great and will be leaving the hospital Monday, a publicist for the British actress said Sunday.
Mia who weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces, when she was born Thursday at a London hospital is the first child for 25-year-old Winslet and her husband, Jim Threapleton.
The couple met in 1997 on the set of the British film ''Hideous Kinky,'' in which Winslet starred and Threapleton, 26, served as assistant director. They married the next year.
Winslet's New York-based agent Robert Garlock said the choice of the name Mia was a spur-of-the-moment decision.
''Kate and Jim had drawn up a list of 10 names, but when the baby was born none of them seemed right,'' he said. ''Then Mia came to them, and it seemed just right.''
Winslet, who spent the summer working on ''Enigma,'' a British film about code-breakers during World War II, reportedly is planning to take a seven-month career break.

October 15: We now know the name and weight! This is from Yahoo! News (via Ananova):
"Winslet Names Daughter Mia" -
    Kate Winslet has named her baby girl Mia, her publicist has revealed.  The 25-year-old actress chose the name - which comes from the Italian word meaning "mine" - after deciding none of the names she had shortlisted were suitable.
    The baby weighed 8lb 9oz after she was born at a London hospital at 5.40am on Thursday, says her New York-based agent Robert Garlock.
    Winslet and her director husband Jim Threapleton, 26, are still caring for the baby in hospital, but are due to return home tomorrow.
    Mr Garlock said: "Kate and Jim had drawn up a list of 10 names, but when the baby was born none of them seemed right. "Then Mia came to them, and it seemed just right.  There is no family significance, they just thought it was a really beautiful name." He added: "Kate said Mia was absolutely gorgeous and that they are all doing very well."
    Winslet was said to be looking forward to a seven-month career break so she can raise her daughter.
    Mia is the couple's first child.
[Thanks to Melissa for emailing me with the news!]

October 15: Here's the Mr. Showbiz coverage:
"It's A Girl For Kate Winslet" -
LONDON (Reuters) - British actress Kate Winslet has given birth to a baby girl, Britain's Daily Mail newspaper reported on Saturday.  The 25-year-old, who starred alongside American heart-throb Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit movie Titanic, gave birth to a daughter on Thursday, the paper said. Both mother and daughter are doing well, the paper added.
In August the actress and husband Jim Threapleton, 26, moved into a $1.17 million riverside home in southern England.
Winslet now plans to take a break from her acting career to bring up her daughter, the Daily Mail reported.
In March Winslet said she had no fears about motherhood disrupting her movie career. "I've never been one for changing what is real in order to make my career buzz," she said.  "My career comes second. There are some actors who do back-to-back jobs and are anxious when others are in the limelight. That's not me," she added.
Winslet met her film director husband on the set of the movie Hideous Kinky in 1997. The couple were married in November 1998.

October 15: I found this item in the Sunday People section of the Mirror:
"Kate Grins and Bears" -
Brave movie star Kate Winslet refused a pain-killing injection when she had her first baby last week. Before the arrival of her daughter, the 25-year-old Titanic star insisted: "Women were made to give birth without epidurals and the rest, so they should bloody well get on with it. "If I need help I will call my acupuncturist."
Kate, 25, and director hubby Jim Threapleton, 26, haven't yet decided on a name for their little girl.
[Keep in mind - this story is in - the Mirror.]

October 14: Still no more details on the baby (name, weight, etc.) as of 7:30 AM PDT. The Sun claims that a name hadn't yet been chosen.

CNN "Headline News" just (7:25 AM PDT) ran the baby story, giving the same brief info from the Daily Mail.

I know the news stories all contain the same info, but I'm posting them so you can see a sampling of many papers/news sites covered the story:

October 14: From the Sun:
Screen star Kate Winslet has given birth to a baby girl, it was announced today.
The 25-year-old actress and her tot are both doing well following the birth on Thursday.
The couple have not chosen a name for their daughter yet.
Kate was also said to be looking forward to a seven-month career break so she can raise her daughter.
The baby is the first child for Titanic star Kate and her director hubbie Jim Threapleton, 26.
The couple married two years ago and met during the filming of Hideous Kinky in Morocco.
Brave Kate kept working right up until the birth. Five months into her pregnancy she filmed war drama Enigma, based on a best-selling Second World War story by Robert Harris.
And during the summer, she was busy house-hunting, buying a £200,000 home in Cornwall and an old pump house overlooking the Thames in London.

October 14: The story from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
"Winslet Gives Birth to her own 'Heavenly Creature'" -
Titanic star Kate Winslet has given birth to her first child, a baby girl, The Daily Mail reported on Saturday.
It said the 25-year-old British actress was now planning for a seven-month career break following the birth on Thursday.
Mother and baby are said to be doing well and there was no indication as to the baby's name. Winslet met her director husband, Jim Threapleton, 29 [oops, wrong age!], two years ago in Morocco during the filming of Hideous Kinky. She kept herself busy during her pregnancy and at five months pregnant was still filming the war drama Enigma, based on a top-selling World War II book about British code-breakers. Her character was also scripted to give birth.

October 14: The same story appeared in the Houston Chronicle:
"Titanic Star Gives Birth to Girl" -
Titanic star Kate Winslet has given birth to her first child, a girl, the Daily Mail reported Saturday. It said the 25-year-old British actress was now planning for a seven-month career break after the birth Thursday. Mother and baby were said to be doing well. There was no indication as to the baby's name. Winslet met her director husband, Jim Threapleton, 29, two years ago during the filming of Hideous Kinky. At five months pregnant she was filming the war drama Enigma. Her character was also scripted to give birth.

October 14: Tamara of Dougray Net emailed me these stories that she found early this morning:

From the UK Times:
Winslet has baby  -
Kate Winslet, the star of Titanic, has given birth to a baby girl. The 25-year-old actress and her daughter were said to be both doing well after the birth on Thursday. It is the first child for the actress and her director husband Jim Threapleton, 26.

From PR Newswire Europe Limited:
"Titanic Star Has Baby Girl," by Simon Mowbray, PA News
Kate Winslet has given birth to a baby girl, it was reported today.
The 25-year-old actress and her daughter are both doing well following the birth on Thursday, said the Daily Mail.
Miss Winslet was also said to be looking forward to a seven-month career break so she can raise her daughter.
It is a first child for Titanic star Miss Winslet and her director husband Jim Threapleton, 26.
The couple married two years ago and met during the filming of Hideous Kinky in Morocco.
Miss Winslet kept herself busy right up until the birth. Five months into her pregnancy she filmed war drama Enigma, based on a best-selling Second World War story by Robert Harris.
And during the summer, she was busy house-hunting, buying a £200,000 home in Cornwall and an old pump house overlooking the Thames in London.

From Agence France Presse:
Baby girl for "Titanic" star Kate Winslet -
"Titanic" star Kate Winslet has given birth to her first child, a baby girl, the Daily Mail reported Saturday.
It said the 25-year-old British actress was now planning for a seven-month career break following the birth Thursday. Mother and baby were said to be doing well.
There was no indication as to the baby's name.
Winslet met her director husband, Jim Threapleton, 29, two years ago in Morocco during the filming of "Hideous Kinky."
She kept herself busy during her pregnancy.
At five months pregnant she was filming the war drama "Enigma," based on a top-selling World War II book about British code-breakers. Her character was also scripted to give birth.

October 13: Here is the story from the UK Telegraph. (So far, all of the news sites have based their stories on the original info from the Daily Mail.) No details yet.
"Kate Winslet Doing Well After Giving Birth To Girl," by Sam Wallace --
The actress Kate Winslet has given birth to a baby girl.
She and her daughter are both said to be doing well following the birth on Thursday. Miss Winslet, 25, was also said to be looking forward to a seven-month career break so that she can care for her daughter. It is a first child for Miss Winslet, who starred in Titanic, and her director husband Jim Threapleton, 26.
The couple married two years ago and met during the filming of Hideous Kinky in Morocco. Miss Winslet was busy right up until the birth. Five months into her pregnancy she filmed the war drama Enigma. During the summer, she was busy house-hunting, buying a £200,000 home in Cornwall and an old pump house overlooking the Thames in London.
She is the latest in a line of celebrities, including Madonna, Catherine Zeta Jones, Emma Thompson, and the All Saints star Melanie Blatt to have children.

October 13: BBC News has just added this story to their site:
Saturday, 14 October, 2000, 02:26 GMT
"Baby girl for Kate Winslet"
Winslet and Threapleton celebrate their first child -
Actress Kate Winslet is reported to have given birth to a baby girl.  The Titantic star is now planning to take a seven-month career break to be with her daughter.
Further details of the weight or name of her first child with director husband Jim Threapleton, 26, have not been released. But both are reported to have been doing well since the birth on Thursday.
Winslet, 25, married her husband two years ago after meeting during the filming of Hideous Kinky in Morocco in 1997.
Large family plans
She was the star and he an assistant director.
In an interview before the pregnancy was announced Winslet said that she considered a happy - and large - family more important than stardom or professional success.
The actress, who has also starred in Holy Smoke and Sense and Sensibility, kept herself busy right up until the birth. Five months into her pregnancy she filmed war drama Enigma, based on a best-selling Second World War story by Robert Harris.
During the summer, she was busy house-hunting, buying a £200,000 home in Cornwall and an old pump house overlooking the Thames in London.
The new parents will be keeping busy in the film world with their new production company Telltale Films which aims to develop and produce UK and European-based films.

October 13: Here's the story from Ananova news! (This was the first story about the birth that we found online.)
"Baby Girl For Titanic Star Kate" -
Star of the film Titanic Kate Winslet has given birth to a baby girl.
The 25-year-old actress and her daughter are both doing well following the birth on Thursday.
Miss Winslet is said to be looking forward to a seven-month career break so she can raise her daughter.
It is a first child for Miss Winslet and her director husband Jim Threapleton, 26.
The couple married two years ago and met during the filming of Hideous Kinky in Morocco.
Miss Winslet kept herself busy right up until the birth. Five months into her pregnancy she filmed war drama Enigma, based on a best-selling Second World War story by Robert Harris.
And during the summer, she was busy house-hunting, buying a £200,000 home in Cornwall and an old pump house overlooking the Thames in London.

Here's the story from Sky News:
"Titanic Love - Kate Winslet Gives Birth To Baby Girl"
Kate Winslet has given birth to a baby girl, it has been reported.
The 25-year-old actress and her daughter are both doing well after the birth on Thursday, the Daily Mail reported.
Kate was said to be planning a seven-month career break so she can get to known her daughter.
Cornwall and pump house homes -
It is a first child for the Titanic star and her director husband Jim Threapleton, 26. The couple married two years ago after meeting on the filmset of Hideous Kinky in Morocco.
Kate bought a £200,000 home in Cornwall and an old pump house by the Thames in London during the summer.
And she kept herself busy, filming an adaptation of a Robert Harris war story, Enigma.

Here's the way the news looked on the BBC News homepage:

From Yahoo! News:
Friday October 13 9:19 PM ET
"Titanic Star Winslet Gives Birth to Girl - Paper
LONDON (Reuters) - British actress Kate Winslet has given birth to a baby girl, Britain's Daily Mail newspaper reported on Saturday.
The 25-year-old, who starred alongside U.S. actor Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit movie "Titanic,'' gave birth to a daughter on Thursday, the paper said.
Both mother and daughter are doing well, the paper added.
In August the actress and husband Jim Threapleton, 26, moved into a $1.17 million riverside home in southern England.
Winslet now plans to take a break from her acting career to bring up her daughter, the Daily Mail reported.
In March Winslet said she had no fears about motherhood disrupting her movie career. "I've never been one for changing what is real in order to make my career buzz,'' she said. "My career comes second. There are some actors who do back-to-back jobs and are anxious when others are in the limelight. That's not me,'' she added.
Winslet met her film director husband on the set of the movie "Hideous Kinky'' in 1997. The couple were married in November 1998.

October 7: Karen emailed me this news story from Entertaindom:
BABY ON BOARD: Actress Kate Winslet will have to have her baby induced if she does not give birth by this weekend. The "Titanic" star was due to give birth to her first baby with husband Jim Threapleton on September 25 -- but is still sporting her bump. And a gynecologist says if the baby doesn't come naturally by Sunday it will need some encouragement from doctors. He says, "When a baby is 14 days past its due date it is normal practice to induce the baby, as this is safest for the baby and the mother. So if Kate is not in the hospital giving birth this weekend she will have to go on Monday and be seen by a midwife. She certainly looks ready to have the baby and probably can't wait as things are definitely getting uncomfortable for her with the weight of the baby and the associated discomfort found in the later stages of pregnancy." A friend of Kate's confirms she is eagerly awaiting the baby's arrival, saying, "She looks ready to burst and can't wait to hold her first child in her arms. She has loved being pregnant but just wants the baby to be born now."

October 2: Karen emailed me the text of an item on Kate from the October 4 issue of Now magazine. The pic used is the same pic from People magazine.
"ANY DAY NOW FOR KATE TO BE A MUM FOR THE FIRST TIME" --
Whatever Kate Winslet had just been told, as she emerged from a hospital in north London last week, it was obviously good news. The Titanic actress is counting the days until the arrival of her first child, which is due next week. Presumably a last minute check up showed everything was going to plan. Kate, 24, and her husband film director Jim Threapleton, 26, will be taking their new baby back to their rather unusual home - an old pumphouse overlooking the River Thames. The £250.000 three-storey house, converted four years ago, dates back to the '30s. However, it doesn't boast the most salubrious surroundings - it faces the entrance to a waterworks strewn with rubbish, including the remains of two burnt out cars. Sounds like a Guy Ritchie film set.

October 2: Tamara of Dougray Net emailed me an article from a previous issue of the Daily Mail. Here's an excerpt:
Even before she knew she was a mum-to-be, her body began a cleanup operation. "We were in New Zealand staying with Peter Jackson, who directed Heavenly Creatures, and we were eating lovely food. But I couldn't swallow the wine - it tasted like vinegar to me. So I stopped drinking alcohol. I knew there was something weird going on but couldn't fathom out what. When we got back to London, I went to see the doctor and, hey presto, found out I was pregnant," she beams. "It's nicer when fate gives you a shove in the right direction. We weren't going to wait much longer, anyway, before having a child. I suppose you think: 'Oh, I'll make one more movie and then have my baby.' But you can't plan it like that." Kate hopes the birth will be natural.

September 18: I went to the bookstore today and found this item in the September 12 issue of Hello! magazine. Here's a portion (I chose to not publish the pic of her house for obvious reasons):

September 14: I found this item in Salon's "Nothing Personal" column:
"A Thing For Pain," by Amy Reiter -
So what if people say that giving birth is one of the most painful things in the world? The way Kate Winslet sees it, it couldn't possibly be as painful as, say, starring in "Titanic." That's why she's planning to just say no to drugs when she gives birth to the little baby she's expecting any week now.  "Giving birth is what we're designed to do so we should bloody well get on with it," Winslet bloody well tells the Scottish Daily Record. Besides, she reckons she's a natural for natural childbirth, because "I'm stoical and have a pretty high pain threshold." And while she allows that, if things get really bad, she'll call her acupuncturist for a little shot of relief, she figures she's more than proved her fortitude by appearing alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in that big boat film. "I've had a good training for labor with some of my film roles, especially 'Titanic,'" she says, "when I was immersed for days in freezing tanks of water." With preparation like that, who needs Lamaze?

September 12: I found this item in today's Daily Record:
"Kate Points To A Natural Birth" -
    Mum-to-be Kate Winslet is gearing herself up for birth - with just needles to relieve the pain. The Hideous Kinky star - who is due to give birth in three weeks time - will go without drugs and turn to an acupuncturist for pain relief.  She said: "Giving birth is what we're designed to do so we should bloody well get on with it. I'm stoical and have a pretty high pain threshold. If I need any help then we'll ring my acupuncturist."
    The 24-year-old star, who met husband Jim Threapleton, 25, on the set of Hideous Kinky, reckons that acting has prepared her well for the experience of a natural birth. She said: "I've had a good training for labour with some of my film roles, especially Titanic when I was immersed for days in freezing tanks of water."

September 3: Here's a pic of Kate, taken just a few days ago, outside her new home. Thanks to HeavenlyRose for emailing me with the tip!
"Mama Kate" - A pregnant Kate Winslet (her baby with hubby Jim Threapleton is due in September) walks outside her new London abode overlooking the Thames River. (Sygma)
People.com

August 30: "Kate's Hideaway" (The Mirror) -
    Mum-to-be Kate Winslet has secretly bought a £800,000 dream house in the country to bring up her baby. The Titantic star and film director husband Jim Threapleton moved in to the converted industrial property just a few weeks ago. The couple, whose first child is due in two weeks time, have spent £80,000 converting the stunning, riverside property in the Home Counties. The four bedroom house with large gallery areas is surrounded by water and can only be reached via a bridge. It has also been fitted with sophisticated alarms and lighting. The high security measures come after a string of email death threats left on Kate's fan club website.
    Kate, 24, has told friends she loves the house especially the river at the bottom of the garden. One said: "It is extremely quiet and miles from anywhere. She is very keen to keep her domestic life as far away from her career as possible."
    Kate and Jim, 26, have been looking for a home to bring up a family since marrying two years ago.
After finishing her new movie Enigma several months ago the star told friends she wants to take a lengthy break from acting. She and Jim moved out of their flat in North London last month and have also bought a £200,000 secluded holiday home in Cornwall.

August 14: I happened to catch a repeat of Friday's "Extra" program this morning. Kate was mentioned in a feature about expectant celebrities; they used one of the May 7 pics. Here are excerpts:
"A star studded baby boom's happening right now in Hollywood, with new momma Madonna having led the pack of pregnant pretties, like Titanic star Kate Winslet... Wow, they're poppin' out all over... Attitudes have changed about stars stomaching their pregnancies in public."

August 12: While reading the news yesterday about the birth of Madonna's son, I came across this line in one story:
She [Madonna] was initially due to have baby Rocco at London's famous Portland Hospital.
    It reminded me of the comment Kate made early in her pregnancy about not choosing the Portland for her delivery:
"It's like my doctor said recently: 'Maybe you should think about where you'd like to have the baby', and I said: 'Not The Portland.' It's a celebrity baby factory (she giggles mischievously). I'm sorry, but it is."
    What did Kate mean by "celebrity baby factory"? Here's a list of a few celebrities who have chosen the Portland:
*Posh Spice Victoria picked London's Portland to have David Beckham's son Brooklyn in March 1999.
*American Jerry Hall had two of her four children by Mick Jagger in London hospitals. Daughter Georgia was born in the Portland in January 1992.
*New Zealand model Rachel Hunter had Rod Stewart's son Liam and daughter Renee in the Portland in June 1992 and September 1994.
*Fergie had both of Prince Andrew's daughters at the Portland - Beatrice in August 1988 and Eugenie in March 1990.
*Patsy Kensit had Oasis star Liam Gallagher's son Lennon in the Portland last September.
*Jemima Khan had cricketer Imran's sons Sulaiman and Kasim in the Portland in November 1996 and April 1999.
*Scary Spice Mel B had Jimmy Gulzar's daughter Phoenix Chi at the Portland in February 1999.

August 10: Mr. Showbiz picked up the 'skinny-dipping' story from the NY Daily News that I reported on the "News" page, adding:
    You'd think that Kate Winslet would be averse to swimming in chilly waters after filming Titanic, but apparently that's not the case.  Spies, who've apparently been surveying the actress's private home on the cinematic Cornish Coast of England (where new Brit comedy Saving Grave was shot), tell the New York Daily News that they've seen Winslet and hubby Jim Threapleton frequently skinny-dipping in the icy waters.
    Good for them. Winslet, who's expecting her first child in late September, and Threapleton deserve a little privacy.  The couple recently purchased a Japanese-style home in the remote area. It can reportedly only be reached by a private bridge and is rumored to have cost the couple $600,000 - chump change by London real estate standards.

August 7: From an Online Mirror article :
"The Descent of Man: Tony Parsons on the Death of Masculinity" -
…The pregnant superstar turns every man into her gynecologist and Kate Winslet, Emma Noble, Meg Mathews, Madonna, Mel B, Melanie Blatt, Helena Christiansen, Patsy Palmer and Demi Moore have all been proud to flaunt the fact they have a bun in the oven. Because fathers have been relegated to the role of distant uncles, the most natural thing in the world - becoming a mother - is now regarded with a sense of wonder and awe.

July 30: I found this item in the Guardian:
"Bumping Along in Style" -
For centuries women had to keep their pregnancy under wraps, but fertility is now the height of fashion, reports Amelia Hill -
Madonna makes it look very easy. Catherine Zeta-Jones is still attending premieres and gala openings with barely a hair out of place, Kate Winslet has yet to stop giggling and, God help us all, Zoe Ball is only beginning… 'It's wonderful to see these women enjoying their pregnancies so wholeheartedly,' said author and columnist Nigella Lawson… There are no idealised images here, just a healthy enjoyment in the state itself… The pregnant stomach might be more fashionable this summer than Versace shades, but it is hardly an exclusive accessory. True, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Madonna and Kate Winslet are all sporting the bow front, while Melinda Messenger, Cherie Booth and Emma Noble have acquired the full-blown baby accessory.
Link to article - Guardian Unlimited

July 19:  From "Celebrity News":
"Kate Moves to Plush New Home" -
Titanic (1997) star Kate Winslet is preparing for motherhood by selling her old apartment and moving into a plush new home. The actress has purchased a house in trendy ***, London, with husband Jim Threapleton just two months before the birth of their first child. And British beauty Kate had a massive clear-out before moving out of her two-bedroom flat in nearby Holloway. A mystery buyer was seen loading up his van with a number of Kate's old items, including her bed, chairs and four surfboards. Her neighbor says, "I saw Kate packing things away and she was surprised at the amount of things that had to be cleared and sorted out." Another neighbor adds, "Kate has been living here for about three years. We'll miss her."

June 16: Anna Winslet commented on Kate's pregnancy during an interview for a Press Association, Ltd. feature:
Anna said Kate, who is expecting her first child, would be visiting soon. "She'll hopefully be coming over in the next couple of weeks. I will be seeing her this weekend, we speak all the time... Anna said her younger sister is reveling in pregnancy. "She's absolutely blooming, totally loving it, she'll be a natural mother. She and Jim are both very impatient for the baby to arrive now."

June 2: I just finished watching (and taping) the segment on "Entertainment Tonight" about pregnant celebrities. It featured two still photographs of Kate on the set of "Enigma" (in costume, padded) -
Host Mary Hart: "Some of Hollywood's top stars are getting ready for a different kind of production - a new baby, and that's our 'Entertainment Tonight' cover story... Kate Winslet is expecting her first child and is working on the film 'Enigma' in London, where her maternal state is being worked into the movie."

From the Daily Record (UK), May 30:
"Sorry But This is as Close as I Can Get" - Kiss Me Kate: Mum-to-be star shows her bump on set of new film:
    Titanic star Kate Winslet looked just swell on the set of her new film, Enigma. Heavily-pregnant Kate, who is expecting her first child in September, recently moaned that her bump was not as big as she wanted it to be. But as these pictures on the movie set show [no pics in the online article, but we know she was padded for that scene!], she is getting so big that she had trouble kissing her Scottish costar Dougray Scott in crucial scenes for the World War II drama. The 24-year-old actress said she was smaller than she had expected to be five months into her pregnancy.  She said: "I know people who got pregnant at the same time and they're huge. I was fully expecting to explode, although I'm sure I will eventually." In Enigma, Kate plays a code breaker called Hester alongside Scott's character - a mathematician who cracks military messages scrambled by the Germans' fiendishly complicated Enigma machine.
    Rolling Stone Mick Jagger yesterday turned up on the London set of the pounds 12 million movie which his company is producing with Intermedia Films. It was the leather-clad rocker's first appearance since the death of his mother, Eva.
    Enigma is the last film acclaimed actress Kate will make before she takes time out to concentrate on motherhood. She has vowed to take things easy once filming is over, while she and husband Jim Threapleton await the baby's arrival.  Kate has been putting in long days on filming but appeared in good spirits as she prepared to shoot these final scenes. One side-effect of her pregnancy has been a craving for fizzy cola sweets, tomatoes and black currant juice. She has also battled severe bouts of morning sickness to make sure she is on set at the right time every day. The down-to-earth actress even snubbed the star treatment of chauffeur-driven cars to travel with the rest of the cast and crew in minibuses. Kate has admitted she is looking forward to taking a break after Enigma.  She said: "I've got one more week filming and that's it until after baby comes along."  She has no idea what the sex of their baby is. She said: "As long as it's got all its fingers and toes, we don't mind."
    When it comes to the secret of happiness, Kate seems to have cracked it.

From The Mirror Online (UK), May 30:
    It may not be titanic yet, but Kate Winslet's bump is certainly growing at full speed.  And the pregnant 24-year-old actress was only too willing to show it off yesterday [I wonder if it was really yesterday?] during a break from filming.  Kate, whose baby is due in September, recently moaned that she was too small.  She said: "I know people who got pregnant the same time as me and they are absolutely huge." Now, though, she feels just swell on the set of the pounds 12 million movie Enigma, co-produced by Rolling Stone Mick Jagger.
    Kate, who is married to director Jim Threapleton, plays a Second World War secret service worker. Her dowdy clothes are a stark contrast to the glam frocks she wore in the blockbuster Titanic. And she's had to fight severe bouts of morning sickness. But one thing's for sure. She can't wait for the berth.

From the Mirror Online (UK), May 20:
"Celebrity Bumps" - Women of substance with great expectations.  And don't they just love to let you know it!  But the celebrities proudly displaying their bumps here have some pretty differing views on style for mums-to-be.  Some parade in designer gear, others dress down. Kate Winslet, 25-year-old [they always get her age wrong!] wife of Jim Threapleton, doesn't give a damn about fashion and lets it all show. Due September.

From the Guardian (UK), May 16:
"Married With Kids" By Emma Warren -
Young, free and single is fine these days. But what if you're a young woman who (whisper it) wants to settle down? While we can ignore teeny marriages between plastic movie people in LA (stand up, Ryan Phillipe and Reese Witherspoon), everyone thought it was rather weird that a nice middle-class girl like Kate Winslet would get pregnant and married at only 24… The message has been coming across loud and clear: Choose life, choose a TV, but don't choose marriage or kids. "There's a lot of pressure," [26-year-old teacher Kate] Licence says. "Women of our generation have got to have gone to college, had a career, been around the world, had loads of relationships and then, only then, you're allowed to have a child." Of course it's not black and white.

From The Telegraph (UK), May 10:
There's only one person the millennium year really belongs to, and that's "the baby". Pregnancy is the new rock 'n' roll - everyone's doing it. Just look at them all. First Cherie Blair, then Emma Noble, Catherine Zeta Jones, Madonna, Iman, Kate Winslet, and now a sheepish Ulrika Jonsson, too - all preparing themselves for a summer of paparazzi purgatory, filled with prying lenses looking for that ultimate glossy cover shot. Forget sex scandals and sleaze, you'll find all that on the inside pages: The real news is up front, where it belongs - who's having a baby and, more importantly, how are they coping and what do they look like?

From Now magazine (UK), May 10:
Flame-haired, bespectacled and to put it charitably, rather dowdily dressed, Kate Winslet has never looked like this before. But it really is her. The Titanic actress, who's expecting her first child by husband film director Jim Threapleton in September, was shooting her last film before the birth. The reason for the dated dress is that she's starring in Enigma, a film set in the '40's, about the British wartime code-breakers who cracked Germany's military secrets. Kate, 24, says she's experiencing a craving for fizzy cola sweets, tomatoes and black currant juice as a result of her pregnancy. Sounds like a balanced diet.

From the Daily Record (UK), May 9:
"I'm Not So Titanic, Says Pregnant Kate" -
    Pregnant Kate Winslet proudly showed off her bump yesterday but said: "I think I'm quite small for five months." The Titanic star said: "I know people at the same stage as me and they are absolutely huge. I was fully expecting to completely explode but at the moment I haven't."
    Kate is expecting her first child with husband Jim Threapleton in September. And she was happy to be caught by the cameras at Heathrow airport before flying to Amsterdam. Patting her tummy, the Hollywood beauty said her pregnancy was going "really great". And asked if the couple knew the baby's sex, Kate said: "No we don't - and we don't want to know, either. We want it to be a surprise."
    The actress was flying to Holland to finish off her latest film Enigma, based on Robert Harris's novel about how German codes were broken in World War II. But Kate, who plays one of the code-breakers, was looking forward to when the filming is over. She said: "I've got one more week filming and that's it until after baby comes along."

From the Mirror Online (UK), May 8:
"Kate's Big Issue", by Matthew Wright -
    After all the tosh written about her weight, gorgeous Titanic star Kate Winslet had her own complaint yesterday - that she wasn't big enough. The pregnant actress proudly showed off her bump as she left Blighty for Amsterdam and then complained that she should be bigger as she's five months gone. "I'm quite small for five months," she giggled. "I know people who are absolutely huge." Kate, 25, [oops, wrong age] who is married to film director Jim Threapleton, said they have no idea what sex the baby is.  "As long as it's got all its fingers and toes, we don't mind," she said. The star has one week's filming left on Mick Jagger's WW II movie Enigma.

From a May Press Association, Ltd. article [thanks to Janalynn for the tip]:
The pair, who were married in a low key ceremony in her home town of Reading, are now expecting their first baby in September, and the ever effervescent star can barely contain her excitement… Right now there's only one production on her mind. "I'm reading a couple of books on the subject," she says of her pregnancy. "I'm not diving in too deep, just to find out the basics - like eat this and don't eat that. We haven't even started thinking of names yet though," she smiles. "When we do it will probably be Jim getting his own way instead of me."

From World Entertainment News Network, May 4:
The movie [Enigma] is well on schedule and unaffected by Winslet's pregnancy. [Jagged Films] Spokesperson Linda Gable says, "We're on track to finish by the end of June. Everything's going smoothly. And Kate's pregnancy hasn't been a problem at all - I haven't seen any busloads of beetroot or marmite arriving to satisfy her cravings or anything!"

From the May issue of Empire magazine:
Expecting - Kate Winslet and hubby Jim Threapleton have ended months of tabloid speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child in September. Winslet and Threapleton, an Assistant Director, met on the set of Hideous Kinky and were married in November 1998.

From an interview with Stephen Thompson, for a UK movie news web site:
KW - This baby is yet to arrive [due in September] and I'd say that since getting married nude scenes are even harder to do and I'm being much more particular about them. That's just something that comes from me because Jim is even more relaxed about it than I am. In terms of locations, I would have thought that when the baby comes along it will influence my choice of where I go, yes.
Question - How else are you preparing for motherhood?
KW - At the moment it's still early days and I just want to get the first couple of scans out of the way.
Question - Are you sorting out the books of names and pretending to involve Jim in this and then you'll make the decision for him anyway?
KW - [Laughs] We haven't even started thinking about that yet!

From the Mirror Online (UK), April 21:
"Is It Coat Winslet? All Change For New Movie Role" -
    Beneath a long coat, anorak, stern specs and a shock of red hair, Kate Winslet is a far cry from the beautifully tailored English blonde [blonde?!] of Titanic. Movie fans would have been hard put to spot the glamorous guest of this month's BAFTA Film Awards in her new guise. But her professionalism won Oscar-style tributes from fellow cast members on the set of Enigma, a movie adaptation of Robert Harris's bestseller about Britain's wartime code-breakers.
    Kate, 25 [oops-wrong age!], and film director husband Jim Threapleton are expecting their first child in September. And the weather during shooting in Lea Valley, Herts, was foul enough for icebergs. But the mum-to-be soldiered on. Kate gained early brownie points by traveling around the set with the rest of the cast in a minibus, leaving her chauffeur driven Merc on the sidelines. And she won sympathy on a few flying visits to the loo. One onlooker said: "She emerged looking a bit green. Someone suggested she might be suffering a touch of morning sickness and that would seem to add up. But if she is, it hasn't stopped her being a real trouper. She stood around for ages in the rain and it was a really long day - she worked from about 8.30am until 7pm."

From the Telegraph (UK), April 20:
Pictures of Madonna, clearly blooming in the fourth month of her pregnancy, have sparked a wave of interest in her new health regime. But Madonna never goes for the easy option - and following too many philosophies can prove confusing. While her pregnant contemporary Kate Winslet craved cola-flavoured sweets and Catherine Zeta Jones was addicted to beetroot salad, Madonna demanded butternut squash.

From the E! News Daily television program, April 10:
[Host's voice-over; clip of Kate presenting at the BAFTA ceremony - she sure looked as though she was having a good time]: "Kate was on hand this weekend at the British Academy film awards. The actress says her pregnancy has slowed her down a little bit, but her cravings haven't stopped." [Kate outside theatre]: "I did have a thing about fizzy cola bottles. I don't know why - I think it was just sour - something to do with that, and tomatoes, as well." [Kate 'pulled a face' about her cravings - cute.]

The Entertainment Tonight television program featured Kate at the BAFTA's, April 10:
Kate was at the Orange British Academy Film Awards where the news was American Beauty's six wins, and Kate's pregnancy. [Kate patting her "bump"] "It's only little, but it's there a little bit."

From The Guardian (UK), April 10:
"My Bump and Me, by Kate" - Patting her tummy to acknowledge her great expectations, four-months pregnant Kate Winslet arrives at the Odeon, Leicester Square for last night's BAFTA awards.

From BBC News, April 9:
"Normal Celebrity Mum" - Pregnant superstar Kate Winslet, wearing an elegant black trouser suite with floral decoration, and a diamond necklace, was greeted with cheers, but there was no sign of husband Jim Threapleton. Asked how it felt to be a celebrity mum-to-be, she said: "I'm just getting on with it. I'm like any normal person. I have the same worries, I have the same excitements. I'm not thinking of myself in that way."

From the April 7 issue of OK! Magazine (UK):
"Kate Will Be a Dab Hand at Motherhood" -
Expect the children's parties at Kate Winslet's house to be something special when the beautiful actress becomes a mum for the first time later this year. The Titanic star, who admits she's always had strong maternal feelings, has revealed that she's a dab hand when it comes to the fine art of face-painting. "It comes from when I was a child myself and I used to love painting my sisters' faces," says Kate, 24, whose latest movie Holy Smoke opens this weekend. "I enjoyed it so much that if I hadn't been an actress, I would have wanted to be a make-up artist." Despite being pregnant, Kate, who is married to film director Jim Threapleton, plans to keep up her busy work schedule. She recently finished shooting Quills, a biopic of the Marquis de Sade, and is set to star in Enigma, a new film being produced by Mick Jagger. Lucky Kate is in the fortunate position of being able to choose her roles carefully - and she's inundated with movie offers. "It is a case of seeing what comes up," she says. "I would never say yes to something that didn't really fire me up."

From an Irish Times interview, April 1:
In April, she has got four weeks shooting on Enigma, a film adapted by Tom Stoppard from Robert Harris's novel about the British code-breaking team at Bletchley Park during the second World War. Then nothing until the baby is six months old, when filming begins on an adaptation of Therese Raquin, from the novel by Zola in which she takes the lead. After which it'll be Jim's turn. A normal life for the baby is more important than anything else, she says, and they plan to take it in turns to work. "I don't want to be one of these mothers who cart their kid around and I'm photographed getting off a plane with the baby in a pack on the front and heaps of bags and sunglasses on. It would just be vile, vile."

From an interview in Associated Newspapers:
"It's like my doctor said recently: 'Maybe you should think about where you'd like to have the baby', and I said: 'Not The Portland.' It's a celebrity baby factory (she giggles mischievously). I'm sorry, but it is."

From the Sunday Times (UK), March 19:
"Battle of the Bulges" -
The Chinese will tell us that this is the Year of the Dragon, but in Britain we know better: It is, of course, the Year of the Celebrity Baby. Meg Mathews and Emma Thompson have had theirs, while Cherie Blair, Catherine Zeta Jones, Emma Noble, Iman and Kate Winslet are lining up to provide us with a summer of happy tidings and glossy OK! covers.

From Showbiz Scoop, March 7:
"Kate's TITANIC with KINKY Love-child," by Bibi St. Bijou --
    HOLY SMOKE! London celeb hunters are whispering about how Kate Winslet and director husband Jim Threapleton have been caught red-handed in public. That's right, the pair have been seen out & about in the Queen's hometown, with Jim's hand placed paternally on Kate's tummy with the love wattage cranked to bug zapper decimals. Kate's camp confirms there's a new Winslet on the way, due in seven months.
    HIDEOUS KINKY? Behave. Although Kate and Jim met on the set of that film, they're thrilled about their impending parenthood and Kate has far from slowed down to knit or nest. She's just finished the Marquis de Sade film, QUILLS, costarring Joaquin Phoenix and Michael Caine, and will soon begin work on the World War II code-cracking drama, ENIGMA. But she better hurry. (We may just see her from the eyebrows up, hidden in a foxhole) All this on top of a recent GRAMMY win for Best Spoken Word Recording for Children. Let's hope her bouncing bundle inherits this enormous talent, but not her astonishing size 10 ½ feet. I kid you not. TITANIC flip-flops indeed.

From Screendaily, February 28:
    Therese Raquin, the period film based on the novel by Emile Zola which was due to start shooting in April with David Leveaux directing, has been postponed to March or April next year following the announcement of star Kate Winslet's pregnancy... "Kate is very attached to the film - it's much more than just an acting role for her," said [producer Nigel] Stafford Clark.

From the Sunday Times (UK), February 27:
"My Latest Production" -
Titanic star Kate Winslet is expecting a baby, it was announced last week. So she'll soon be thinking about names. With the months of anxiety, the surprise of the big day and the tears when it finally arrives, have you considered Oscar?

From This is Leicestershire, February 25:
"Titanic Star Kate To Be A Mum" -
    Titanic star Kate Winslet and husband Jamie Threapleton were said to be delighted after it was revealed the actress is pregnant. Kate, 24, reportedly had a pregnancy test after returning from a six-week trip to California and Fiji with her film director husband. The baby is reportedly due in the autumn.
    Jamie's grandmother Marjorie Haskey, 72, told The Sun: 'Kate and James are over the moon.
'It will be our first great-grandchild and I never thought we'd see the day.'
    Kate's pregnancy is expected to delay the shooting of a film version of Emile Zola's book Therese Raquin, which she was due to start filming alongside Dame Judi Dench in June. She has just finished making Quills about the Marquis de Sade and can be next be seem on the big screen opposite Harvey Keitel in religious cult drama Holy Smoke.

From the Times (UK), February 25:
"Winslet to Take up Role of a Mother" - from Grace Bradberry in Los Angeles:
    Kate Winslet, the star of the film Titanic, is pregnant, just over a year after she married her boyfriend, the assistant director Jim Threapleton. Her New York publicist, Robert Garlock, confirmed the news yesterday, adding: "She and Jim are thrilled."
    The pregnancy was disclosed in the Hollywood Reporter, which noted that shooting of Thérèse Raquin, an adaptation of an Emile Zola novel, had been delayed until next year. Despite the huge commercial success of Titanic, Winslet, 24, is known as an actress prepared to star in low-budget movies to stretch her talent. She met Threapleton on the set of Hideous Kinky in Morocco in August 1997. Winslet was starring and Threapleton was an assistant director. They married in November 1998 at her parish church in Reading, Berkshire. Afterwards the guests, including the actress Emma Thompson, ate bangers and mash.

From the Telegraph (UK), February 25:
"Kate Winslet Expects First Child" -
    Kate Winslet, who starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, announced yesterday that she is pregnant with her first child. The 24-year-old, who is married to the director James Threapleton, was said to be "ecstatic".
    Robert Garlock, her agent in America, said the couple were "hugely happy". The announcement of her pregnancy comes only a month after a spokesman denied rumours that she was expecting a child. Mr. Threapleton had been photographed placing his hand on her stomach as they arrived at the premiere of her latest film Holy Smoke.

From The Guardian (UK), February 25:
"Patter of Tiny Feet for Kate Winslet," -
    The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Kate Winslet is expecting her first child with husband Jim Threapleton. The actress, who got married last year to the assistant director, is said to be "thrilled".
    Winslet recently turned down the role of Bridget Jones in a big-budget version of Helen Fielding's novel, The Diary of Bridget Jones (the part has now gone to the American actress Renee Zellweger), but is keen to fit in one more role before the baby is born in late September. She is in talks to star in Enigma, a thriller based on Robert Harris's best-selling novel about the race to break German code during the second world war.
    Michael Apted, who recently helmed the nineteenth Bond film, The World is Not Enough, will direct the film which boasts a script written by Tom Stoppard.  Dougray Scott and Saffron Burrows and will also star in the film, which is scheduled to begin shooting in London this spring.
    Winslet, who just wrapped the Marquis de Sade tale Quills, still has another literary period piece in development, Emile Zola's Therese Raquin. But this project is likely to be put on the back burner until Winsle