Kate Beckinsale shuts down Body Shamer for criticizing her as ‘skinny’ after health scare

Kate Beckinsale has launched a body shamer shortly after she was criticized for her appearance following a recent health scare.

“Sorry to say this Kate, but you look a little thin… You’ve always found a great balance… But when your cheekbones start to show, the balance is lost,” one Instagram user commented on a post published by Beckinsale Saturday. The post, which has since been deleted, featured behind-the-scenes footage from Beckinsale’s upcoming film, “Stolen Girl,” BuzzFeed Reports.

The “Underworld” star, 50, addressed the comment in an update about some challenges she has faced recently.

“I looked after my stepfather until his death earlier this year. My mom also has things going on. I’m adjusting to seeing two parents die, one when I was 5 years old and the other in January of this year,” she wrote.

Beckinsale’s stepfather, Roy Battersby, died in January after “a brief period of illness,” she announced in a statement. Instagram Story at the time. Her father, Richard Beckinsale, died of a heart attack in 1979, aged 31.

“I lost my soulmate of almost 19 years, also last year,” the “Van Helsing” actress continued in her post this weekend. “I spent six weeks in the hospital due to profusely vomiting Mallory Weiss’s year-old blood, caused by a year’s worth of stress ripping a hole between my esophagus and stomach.”

Kate also wrote that she “experienced a severe crisis of [her] mast cell disease, also mitigated by stress, shock and sadness.”

“That’s what I’m prepared to reveal that contributed to some weight loss,” she continued. “What you think of how I look and how I should be, regardless of any circumstances in my life and that of my family, is not important.”

The English actress then said that her post-traumatic stress disorder surrounding the “unbearable losses” had been “reactivated”.

“I am trying to survive what feels like unbearable loss, the post-traumatic stress reactivated by discovering the barely alive corpse of my young father as a very young child, alone at night, and working to support the family I have left,” he wrote. she.

Closing her message, Beckinsale criticized the critic for having the audacity to “bully women because of their appearance.”

“The fact that you like heavier girls than me doesn’t come up in things that are important or relevant,” she wrote. “I don’t care what your taste in women is. I care that you think any of us need to be told this… Do better.”

Just a few weeks ago, Beckinsale called out internet trolls for “constantly” accusing her of going under the knife.

“I’m accused of having unrecognizable surgery / of using Botox with fillers / of being obsessed with looking younger, and it really is such a tiring and subtly cruel way to bully a person,” the star wrote in an Instagram post from 5 May deleted.