Kate Beckinsale is addressing the online scrutiny over her size in the wake of her mom, Judy Loe’s death.
“You take a break from Instagram for several months following the death of your mother, delete all of your posts and explain in some considerable detail about what you may have lost weight including the fact that weight loss is one of the very first physical signs of bereavement,” the actress, 53, wrote on Saturday, August 8, in response to people criticizing her perceived weight and health. “I think people might be broken.”
In addition to her comments, Beckinsale shared just a portion of the messages and comments she has received regarding her body in the wake of her mother’s 2025 death following a stage IV cancer battle.
“Loosen up the Ozampic !! You were divine and now you look anorexic!,” one of the comments the actress screenshotted and posted read. Another person wrote, “Gain weight you f*** it.”
“You must eat please,” another comment read, to which she also replied, “Having just made a several slides post about how eating could actually kill me this is a little beyond.”
The Wildcat star — and mom to 29-year-old daughter Lily Mo Sheen with ex Michael Sheen — previously addressed her mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) diagnosis, which Healthline described as a medical condition that occurs when the mast cells in your body release too much of a substance that causes allergy-like symptoms.
In a since-deleted video, Beckinsale detailed her journey with grief and health issues, noting that “anytime I post a photo of myself, I receive an enormous amount of comments telling me how disgusting I look and I’m anorexic or I’m on meth or that I’ve lost so much weight.”
“First off, I’ve lost my entire family, except my precious daughter, in a short amount of time,” she shared in the post, referring to the loss of her mother 18 months after the death of her stepfather, Roy Battersby, in 2024. “The second thing is, I have a condition, which is an autoimmune condition called mast cell activation syndrome, and there’s another one called mast cell disease, and there’s mastocytosis.”
She told critics, “You don’t know what’s going on in people’s lives.”
“Treat people just how you’d like to be treated yourself, give people a little grace,” Beckinsale further advised. “If you don’t have anything nice to say, maybe don’t say anything.”
