Kate Beckinsale has had enough comments about her appearance. After she made her first red-carpet appearance following a lengthy hospital stay for undisclosed health reasons last week, she was met with accusations of having too much plastic surgery. In an Instagram post on Sunday, Beckinsale responded to the “insidious bullying.”
“Every time I post anything — and by the way, this has been the case since I was about 30 — I am accused of having had unrecognisable surgery/using Botox using fillers/being obsessed with looking younger,” she captioned a post of a recent video of herself and another from early in her career. “It’s really such a tiresome and subtly vicious way to bully a person.” Beckinsale, 50, said that despite the accusations, she hasn’t had any work done, saying, “I don’t actually do any of those things — I’ve even gone to the trouble of having a plastic surgeon categorically state that I don’t and haven’t.”
Beckinsale said that when she was younger she “had a fuller face, as most of us do in our late teens and 20s.” She added that she’s “not too concerned about aging” because she spent much of her life “absolutely crippled with severe anxiety and panic attacks” that she would die young of a heart attack like her father, who died at 31. “The fact that one of the major things I am bullied about is an assumption that I can’t handle the idea of getting older is so deeply ironic when my all consuming terror was that I never thought I’d even see the end of my 20s,” she wrote.
In December, Beckinsale wrote on Instagram that 2023 was probably the hardest year of her life, but didn’t elaborate. The following month, in a since-deleted Instagram post, she shared an emotional tribute revealing that her stepfather, Roy Battersby, had passed away. Beckinsale alluded to the emotional toll of his death in her Sunday post.
“I’m posting this knowing full well that it will have absolutely no effect. It isn’t going to stop. But I’m also posting it because whatever someone looks like, accusing them constantly of things they haven’t done, or being obsessed with youth when actually, currently I’m obsessed with surviving loss, is bullying. Please stop now,” she wrote.
