As a middle-aged woman, Lee refused to be remembered as a model, covergirl and male artists’ muse (she was the subject of the avant-garde photographer Man Ray ). She defied the expectations and rules of the time and travelled to Europe to report from the frontline. She challenged the patriarchy and paved the way in a male-dominated space.

Her work on the frontlines of WWII delivered some of the most essential, and horrifying, images of the Holocaust, but Lee Miller’s strong, independent spirit is boxed in by the formulaic, paint-by-num

After a 'Lee' crew member advised her to suck in her stomach to hide her "belly rolls," Kate Winslet is opening up about her response.

Starring Kate Winslet, it is a "handsomely upholstered account" of the life of Lee Miller, the American model-turned-war photographer who accompanied US forces as they advanced through northwest France and into Germany in 1944-45.

"We had Lee Miller's real photographs… so it was our duty as filmmakers to follow that truth" –Kate Winslet's Lee Miller biopic opens today in the UK

There is a great movie in Lee – for instance, how Lee Miller's photographs intimately depicted women's realities after the war, from the head-shavings of alleged nazi collaborators to the unpunished sexual assaults on women by both sides of the conflict. However, it just needed a bit more bravery to bring it out and stick with it.