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Kate Beckinsale She addressed her recent weight loss in an Instagram post, hitting back at those who made nasty comments about her body online.
The 52-year-old British actor wiped away tears in an emotional video shared on Wednesday, saying her thinness was a “physical expression of grief” after the deaths of her mother and stepfather over the past two years.
“2025 is a very, very difficult year. It’s also my incredible mom’s last year on this planet. So I’m also very torn about letting it go,” Beckinsale said in the heartfelt video. She then reflected on the grief she has experienced throughout her life, including Her father is dying When she was only five years old.
“I watched my 31-year-old father die of a massive heart attack, then I watched my stepfather die, and I watched my mother fall and die,” she said through tears. “It’s so incredibly painful, and I would say it doesn’t make you feel terribly hungry.”
She continued, “I don’t know if there’s some kind of survivor guilt because it started after my stepfather died. It’s not like anorexia, where you starve, it’s a matter of willpower. It’s like your body has shut down. I think it’s shock and trauma.”
“I think, especially being alone, watching the people you love the most suffer and go through horrific, sometimes violent and gruesome deaths, really keeps you from feeling hungry.”
Beckinsale’s stepfather Roy Battersby died in January 2024 at the age of 87. her mother, Judy Loe, died in July 2025, Nearly two years after she was diagnosed with cancer.
this Van Helsing The star went on to say that she’s grateful for the way her parents raised her because she would never be left with “nasty” messages like the ones she’s received in recent months about her apparent weight loss.
“To all the people out there who have been inconvenienced because I’m too thin, too big, or don’t fit into their expectations of who I am, I really, really wish you had parents like me,” she said. “I absolutely refuse to be like you.”
Earlier this month, Beckinsale Responding to comments about her apparent weight loss and said she was going through a “very painful” period.
“I am going through one of the most painful moments of my life. The body is keeping score,” she wrote.
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