Kate Beckinsale has had enough of the internet’s unsolicited commentary about her body.
The actress, 53, wiped her Instagram page after facing a wave of negative comments, including remarks targeting her appearance and weight.
Before deleting the posts, Beckinsale shared screenshots of some of the criticism to show just how personal the online attacks had become.
“As I’m sure you’re aware, 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.”
But Beckinsale made it clear that social media followers rarely know the full story behind someone’s appearance.
“First off, I’ve lost my entire family, except my precious daughter, in a short amount of time.”
She also spoke about living with mast cell activation syndrome, a condition she said she was diagnosed with 16 years ago.
“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. This is something that I was diagnosed with 16 years ago, and I was really, really lucky that I had an amazing GP in London who called it and sent me to, at that point, the one guy in the world in New Jersey who was the expert in that,” Kate said.
Her message to the commenters was simple: think before you type.
“You never 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. If you don’t have anything nice to say, maybe don’t say anything… You don’t want to be the last straw for somebody, you don’t want to be the thing that makes them more sick, just keep going, it’s not hard.”
Beckinsale has previously addressed body-shaming, including in late 2025, when she opened up about the painful reason she had struggled with her appetite.
2026-08-11 14:47:00
