Kate Beckinsale is forced to stand up for herself after critics go after her for being “too thin” following her recent hospitalization.
In a now-deleted Instagram video, The Underworld star prepared for her 1990s-based film, Stolen Girl. She is starring in the upcoming film with Scott Eastwood and Ana Golja. In the clip, she is seen wearing retro-style outfits and hairstyles while dancing around in her trailer.
Kate Beckinsale also dished about how the film is a “redo” of the 90s for her. She recounted her life in that time, which included her cutting her own hair, wearing her brother’s pajamas, and living in her Dr. Martens while over-applying translucent powder.
Although she appeared to be extra happy to be finally back to work following her recent lengthy hospital stay, it didn’t take long for internet trolls to make comments about her weight.
“Kate! I think you’ve lost too much weight! You look amazing as usual but, put on some weight please!” one follower wrote. “What happened to you? You used to be gorgeous,” another said.
“Sorry to say this Kate, but you do look a bit thin,” a third critic declared. They then said that the actress always had “strike a good balance” when it came ot her. However, when her “cheekbones start to show” that’s when the “balance” is lost.
Good and done with the weight slamming, Kate Beckinsale reportedly clapped back. “I nursed my [stepdad] to his death early this year. My mum also has stuff going on. I am adjusting to watching two fathers die, one when I was 5, one in January of this year.”
Kate Beckinsale Reveals Other Health/Life Issues That Have Occurred Over the Past Few Months
The actress was referring to losing her stepfather Roy Battersby earlier this year. She was also the one to discover her father Richard Beckinsale after he died from a heart attack. She was 5 years old.”
Continuing to unleash, Kate Beckinsale wrote, “I lost my soulmate cat of almost 19 years, also last year. I spent six weeks in hospital due to copiously vomiting blood from a [Mallory-Weiss tear] caused by the stress of a whole year ripping a hole between my [esophagus] and stomach.”
Beckinsale pointed out that she experienced a “severe flare” of her mast cell disease amid all of this. She noted it was “mitigated by stress, shock, and grief.”
“That’s what I am prepared to disclose that has contributed to some weight loss,” Kate Beckinsale noted. “What you think of my appearance and how I should look, independently of any circumstances in my life and my family’s is not important.”
“I am trying to survive what feel like unbearable losses, reactivated PTSD from discovering my very young father’s almost dead body as a very young child alone in the night, and working to support the family I have left.”
She went on to call out the critic for bullying others about their appearance.
“The fact you fancy girls who are heavier than I am does not feature in things that are important or relevant,” Beckinsale added. “I don’t care what your taste in women is. I care that you think any of us need to be apprised of it … Do better.”