Kate Beckinsale reflects on the grief and responds to comments she has received about her recent weight loss.
The 52-year-old actress took to her Instagram account on Wednesday, December 31, to share an emotional message with her followers, while also mourning her late mother, who passed away in July after a battle with cancer.
Calling 2025 a difficult year, Beckinsale began: “2025 was a very difficult year. It was also the last year that my incredible mother was on this planet. So I feel really torn about letting it go as well.”
The grief has affected her in several ways, one of which is the loss of appetite.
“I watched my 31-year-old father die of a massive heart attack, and then I watched my stepfather die and I watched my mother degenerate and die,” Beckinsale said as her tears began to fall. “Such an incredible amount of suffering and what I will say, it doesn’t make you feel very hungry.”
The Underworld star insisted that her sudden weight loss wasn’t intentional: “I don’t know if there’s some kind of survivor’s guilt,” she said, adding: “It’s not like anorexia where you’re starving and it’s a kind of willpower. It’s like your body has shut down. I think it’s shock and trauma.”
“I think seeing, especially alone, the people you love most suffer and suffer horrific and sometimes violent and horrible deaths really doesn’t leave you hungry,” she continued.
Moreover, the actress also expressed her gratitude to her parents, who raised her so well that she would never see someone who “suffers” and leaves “nasty” comments.
“To all the people who are bothered by the fact that I’m too skinny or that I’m not who they expect me to be, I really wish you had parents like me,” she added.
