{"id":211038,"date":"2026-01-01T04:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211038\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T04:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:07:09","slug":"kate-beckinsale-issues-emotional-response-to-nasty-comments-about-change-in-her-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211038\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Beckinsale Issues Emotional Response to \u2018Nasty\u2019 Comments About Change in Her Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kate Beckinsale shared an emotional video addressing her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/kate-beckinsale-luminous-skin-steals-182329014.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:recent weight loss;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent weight loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAs we end 2025, which was a really, really hard year, it was also the last year that my incredible mom was on this planet. So I feel really torn about letting go of it, as well,\u201d the 52-year-old said in a video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DS67veTCgfU\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shared to Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shared to Instagram<\/a> on Wednesday, December 31. \u201cI just wanted to address the fact that I lost my stepfather a couple years ago, and I\u2019d already watched my father die cause my mom was in hospital and it was just me. At the age of 5, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\" &lt;span class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Instagram\/Kate Beckinsale&lt;\/span&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"523\" height=\"746\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/30d2d3f4a00e967cef54f58b396170ad.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Instagram\/Kate Beckinsale<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She continued, \u201cAnd I will say, It doesn\u2019t make me feel very hungry. I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s some kind of survivor\u2019s guilt cause it started after my stepdad died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/kate-beckinsale-circles-back-with-ex-matt-rife\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Serendipity actress;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Serendipity actress<\/a>, her lack of appetite is \u201cnot like anorexia,\u201d but rather as if her \u201cbody has closed down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\" &lt;span class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Instagram\/Kate Beckinsale&lt;\/span&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"522\" height=\"776\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ace7f88a97eac32acfca4f0a9b3ac50f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Instagram\/Kate Beckinsale<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI think it\u2019s shock and trauma,\u201d she explained before slamming critics for leaving \u201cnasty\u201d comments about her appearance while she is \u201ctransparently suffering.\u201d \u201cPeople respond in different ways, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\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 concluded. \u201cI absolutely refuse to become like you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/kate-beckinsale-issues-emotional-response-to-nasty-comments-about-change-in-her-appearance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kate Beckinsale Issues Emotional Response to \u2018Nasty\u2019 Comments About Change in Her Appearance;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kate Beckinsale Issues Emotional Response to \u2018Nasty\u2019 Comments About Change in Her Appearance<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:National Enquirer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">National Enquirer<\/a>. 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