Kate Beckinsale tearfully opened up in a video, attributing her weight loss to grief that has left her without an appetite.
Kate Beckinsale continues to deal with a devastating loss. The Pearl Harbor actress addressed critics of her appearance as she considered her "really, really hard" year, in which her mother Judy Loe passed away at the age of 78 from stage 4 cancer, just over a year after her stepfather Roy Battersby passed away. Additionally, it was crucial for her to comprehend how her grief showed up.
“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 then I watched my mother degenerate and die in such an incredible amount of suffering,” in an Instagram video posted on December 31, Kate spoke while crying. “And I will say, it doesn't make you feel very hungry.”
The 52-year-old, whose father was actor Richard Beckinsale, acknowledged that it might be “some kind of survivor guilt” that has an impact on her appetite. Then she explained, “It's not like anorexia, where you're starving and it's a kind of willpower thing. It's like your body has closed down.”
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“It's shock and trauma,” she added. “Watching—especially alone—the people that you love the most dearly suffer and have horrific, sometimes violent, awful deaths really makes you not hungry.”
Kate, who is the mother of 26-year-old Lily Mo Sheen and Michael Sheen, admitted that "people respond in different ways" to bereavement, while she also said that she is taking the conversation about her body as a chance to value her parents' upbringing.
“I am so grateful that it wouldn't occur to me to see somebody transparently suffering and write something nasty about their appearance,” she stated. “I'm so grateful to have been brought up by people who raised me like that, and I really miss them.”
The Underworld actress also responded directly to her detractors, saying, “For all the people who are inconvenienced by me being too thin or too anything or not what they expect me to be like, I really, really wish that you had parents like I had.”
She also underlined that the insults she has endured for her appearance has not changed her into “the kind of cruel piece of s--t that would say the stuff that a lot of you guys say to me.”
“I absolutely refuse to become like you,” Kate came to a conclusion. “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.”
