Kate Beckinsale has shared a heartbreaking message as 2025 comes to a close regarding body shaming.
If you don’t know, the 52-year-old actress has suffered some major losses, including losing her father when she was just a child, losing her beloved mom earlier this year, and also recently lost her stepfather.
She has been fighting comments and trolls about her appearance for years, and today, she’s posted a message to those who are commenting about her weight and calling her too thin.
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In an emotional video, Kate said on Instagram, “2025 was a really really hard year. It was also the last year that my incredible mum was on this planet. So I feel really torn about letting go of it as well. But I just wanted to address the fact that I lost my stepfather a while ago, a couple years ago. And I already watched my father die because my mum was in hospital and it was just me at the age of five. I watched my 31-year-old father die of a huge heart attack, and then I watched my stepfather die and I watched my mother degenerate and die.”
“Such an incredible amount of suffering and what I will say, it doesn’t make you feel very hungry. And I don’t know if there’s some kind of survivor guilt because it started after my stepdad died and it’s not like anorexia where you’re starving and it’s a kind of willpower thing,” she added.
“It’s like your body has closed down. I think it’s shock and trauma. I think watching, especially alone the people you love the most dearly suffer and have horrific and sometimes violent and awful deaths, really makes you not hungry,” she continued.
She added, “And people respond in different ways obviously, but if you google physical manifestations of grief, your appetite is probably the first one. But I will say that because of my dad and my stepdad and my mum, I am so grateful that it wouldn’t occur to me to see somebody suffering and write something nasty about their appearance. It just wouldn’t cross my mind. I am so grateful to have been brought up by people who raised me like that. And I really miss them.”
“And for all the people who are inconvenienced by me being too thin or not what they expect me to be like, I really wished you had parents like I had. I’m so glad that suctioning blood clots from my stepdad’s bladder while he’s suffering heart failure and trying to save his life and having to be the one to stop chest compressions on my mother as they broke all her ribs, has not turned me into the type of cruel piece of sh-t that would say the stuff that a lot of you guys say to me. I absolutely refuse to become like it. And if that’s the legacy from my parents that I would never ever do that to anyone, I am so f-king proud of it,” she concluded.
We’re sending Kate all of our best.