Kate has a baby girl and puts her career on hold...more...
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.
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Kate Winslet has given birth to a baby girl. Mother and daughter are both well following the delivery on Thursday. It is a first child for the 25-year old actress and her director husband Jim Threapleton. Miss Winslet, who starred in the blockbuster Titanic with Leonardo DiCaprio, now plans to take a seven-month break from her career. She married Threapleton, 26, two years ago after they met on the set of the film Hideous Kinky in Morocco. "The minute I saw him I knew he was the one for me," said Miss Winslet just before their marriage. At the time, she said starting a family had become "the most important thing" in their lives and both were thrilled at the prospect of parenthood.
Once she became pregnant, she revealed that her rounded tummy had become one of her husband's obsessions. She said in June: "Jim is just completely beside himself. The other day, he said, 'When we have the baby, do you think you could keep your tummy?' "I said that after I've had our baby I'll go back to having a lovely, flat stomach with a nice waist, and he said, "I don't want that one, I want this one!" 'People have always told me I have childbearing hips and now it's time put them to good use.'
Despite plans to take an extended break after the birth, Miss Winslet certainly kept herself busy beforehand. Just before she became pregnant, she shot the film Quills with Geoffrey Rush and Michael Caine. Five months into her pregnancy, she was working long hours on the war drama Enigma, playing a character who was scripted to give birth. In the film, based on Robert Harris's best-selling novel about the Second World War code-breakers at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, she plays a strait-laced analyst who helps the story's hero - played by Dougray Scott - crack the German codes. However her character Hester's pregnancy was considerably more advanced than her own, which meant having to wear padding. Miss Winslet also recently signed a contact to become the voice of Enid Blyton by reading her stories for a series of talking books.
Since Titanic's release four years ago, the Reading-born actress has become one of a handful of British performers with global clout. Her name can guarantee a film being financed. She and her husband have been busy putting down roots. In, July they bought a Japenese-style house in Cornwall. Soon afterwards they purchased an old pump house overlooking the Thames.
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