Kate Beckinsale issued an emotional \u201cPSA\u201d about her weight loss while reflecting on the \u201creally, really hard year\u201d she\u2019s had.<\/p>\n
The actress called her slimdown a \u201cphysical manifestation of grief\u201d in an emotional Instagram video<\/a> on Wednesday, pointing out that she lost her stepfather<\/a>, Roy Battersby, and her mother, Judy Loe, back to back.<\/p>\n \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make me feel very hungry,\u201d the \u201cTotal Recall\u201d star explained, speculating that she may have \u201csome kind of survivor guilt.\u201d<\/p>\n Kate Beckinsale addressed her drastic weight loss in an emotional Instagram video Wednesday. Kate Beckinsale\/Instagram<\/p>\n On Wednesday, the actress blamed her transformation on a \u201creally, really hard year.\u201d Kate Beckinsale\/Instagram<\/p>\n Beckinsale denied her headline-making transformation<\/a> is \u201clike anorexia where you\u2019re starving and it\u2019s a willpower thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Instead, she claimed, \u201cIt\u2019s like my body has closed down. I think it\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n The 52-year-old noted that \u201cpeople respond in different ways,\u201d closing the social media upload by blasting those writing \u201cnasty\u201d comments about her looks while she is \u201ctransparently suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n Beckinsale said on Wednesday that her grief \u201cdoesn\u2019t make [her] feel very hungry.\u201d Kate Beckinsale\/Instagram<\/p>\n The \u201cTotal Recall\u201d star, pictured above on Dec. 16, speculated that she may have \u201csurvivor\u2019s guilt.\u201d BACKGRID<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \u201cIt just wouldn\u2019t cross my mind [to do that],\u201d she said of the \u201ccruel piece of s\u2013t\u201d insults she reads from her followers.<\/p>\n \u201cFor 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,\u201d Beckinsale continued. \u201cI absolutely refuse to become like you.<\/p>\n \u201cIf that\u2019s the legacy from my parents that I would never ever do that to anyone, I\u2019m so f\u2013king proud of it,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n Beckinsale explained on Wednesdady that she suffered back-to-back losses of her stepfather and mother. Kate Beckinsale\/Instagram<\/p>\n She called her appearance a result of \u201cshock and trauma.\u201d Instagram\/katebeckinsale<\/p>\n Beckinsale similarly clapped back at haters<\/a> over the summer after posting bikini snaps.<\/p>\n When an Instagram user wrote in July that the \u201cEmma\u201d star didn\u2019t \u201clook good\u201d and she \u201cneed[ed] help,\u201d Beckinsale wrote that \u201cthe body keeps the score.\u201d<\/p>\n Her comment, which referenced Bessel van der Kolk\u2019s book of the same name, continued, \u201cYes I do [need help]. I\u2019m going through one of the most deeply painful times of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n The 52-year-old railed against \u201ccruel\u201d comments from her followers. KATE BECKINSALE\/INSTAGRAM<\/p>\n She clapped back at those \u201cwho are inconvenienced by [her] being too thin.\u201d katebeckinsale\/Instagram<\/p>\n In January, Beckinsale slammed a \u201cpassive aggressive completely unnecessary opinion<\/a> from someone\u201d insisting she had \u201clost too much weight lately.\u201d<\/p>\n She advised, \u201cNext time you feel like commenting on someone\u2019s body<\/a>, I suggest you keep it to your f\u2013king self.\u201d<\/p>\n Beckinsale\u2019s stepdad died of a stroke in January 2024, with Loe losing her battle to cancer<\/a> in July of the following year.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t