Kate Beckinsale issued an emotional “PSA” about her weight loss while reflecting on the “really, really hard year” she’s had.
The actress called her slimdown a “physical manifestation of grief” in an emotional Instagram video on Wednesday, pointing out that she lost her stepfather, Roy Battersby, and her mother, Judy Loe, back to back.
“It doesn’t make me feel very hungry,” the “Total Recall” star explained, speculating that she may have “some kind of survivor guilt.”
Beckinsale denied her headline-making transformation is “like anorexia where you’re starving and it’s a willpower thing.”
Instead, she claimed, “It’s like my body has closed down. I think it’s shock and trauma. I think watching especially alone the people that you love the most dearly suffer and have horrific sometimes violent awful deaths really makes you not hungry.”
The 52-year-old noted that “people respond in different ways,” closing the social media upload by blasting those writing “nasty” comments about her looks while she is “transparently suffering.”
“It just wouldn’t cross my mind [to do that],” she said of the “cruel piece of s–t” insults she reads from her followers.
“For all the people who are inconvenienced by me being too thin, too anything or not what they expect me to be like, I really really wish you had parents like I had,” Beckinsale continued. “I absolutely refuse to become like you.
“If that’s the legacy from my parents that I would never ever do that to anyone, I’m so f–king proud of it,” she concluded.
Beckinsale similarly clapped back at haters over the summer after posting bikini snaps.
When an Instagram user wrote in July that the “Emma” star didn’t “look good” and she “need[ed] help,” Beckinsale wrote that “the body keeps the score.”
Her comment, which referenced Bessel van der Kolk’s book of the same name, continued, “Yes I do [need help]. I’m going through one of the most deeply painful times of my life.”
In January, Beckinsale slammed a “passive aggressive completely unnecessary opinion from someone” insisting she had “lost too much weight lately.”
She advised, “Next time you feel like commenting on someone’s body, I suggest you keep it to your f–king self.”
Beckinsale’s stepdad died of a stroke in January 2024, with Loe losing her battle to cancer in July of the following year.
