Kate Beckinsale responds to plastic surgery speculation

Kate Beckinsale has spoken out against online bullies and asked the public to stop speculating about her appearance. The 50-year-old actress shared a lengthy message on Instagram in response to continued public claims that she is “unrecognizable” after alleged plastic surgery. In the post, Beckinsale claimed that the endless speculation was actually “subtly vicious” bullying. The actress then opened up about her health anxiety and also claimed that she has never had plastic surgery.

“I hate talking about this because I hate adding to this conversation, but I do it because insidious bullying of any kind over time takes its toll,” Beckinsale began the post, which featured a video of her in her twenties and a video of her from this year. “These videos may be 20 years apart – maybe more. Every time I post something – and in fact, this has been the case since I was around 30 – I am accused of having suffered a unrecognizable surgery/using Botox with fillers/obsessing with looking younger, and it really is such a tedious and subtly vicious way to intimidate a person.

She added: “I actually don’t do any of those things – I even went to the trouble of having a plastic surgeon state categorically that I don’t do it and haven’t done it, and yet , every time there’s a chorus of my My God, you’re unrecognizable Oh my God PLASTIC, oh my God, you don’t even look like yourself anymore, it happens constantly and it’s usually women who do it.

Beckinsale then explained that she doesn’t really care about looking older. In fact, she revealed that as a young woman, she suffered from debilitating health anxiety.

“I don’t worry too much about aging – because I found my father dead when I was 5, I spent most of my teens and a good part of my twenties absolutely crippled by severe anxiety and panic attacks at the thought of also dying from a heart attack, I often went to the emergency room and I was almost, at that time in my life, completely immobilized by this anxiety,” she said. -she writes. “The fact that one of the main things nagging at me is the assumption that I can’t bear the thought of growing old is so deeply ironic when my all-consuming terror was that I never thought I would see the end of my life. 20 years.”

Beckinsale went on to explain that her appearance had changed due to natural aging, a new tan, and a change in makeup techniques. The actress then concluded by calling on online trolls to stop their comments.

“I post this knowing full well that it will have absolutely no effect,” she wrote. “It’s not going to stop. But I’m also posting it because it doesn’t matter what someone looks like, constantly accusing them of things they didn’t do, or being obsessed with youth when in fact, currently I’m obsessed with surviving a loss, this is bullying Please stop now.”

This post comes shortly after Beckinsale reportedly had undisclosed health issues that may be related to “stomach issues.” Beckinsale posted a photo of herself in a hospital bed in March and made her first public appearance following her hospitalization in April.

“It’s been a tough year,” she said at the event. People. “Because my parents have both been sick and my cat… it’s been a lot of things. That’s why it’s nice to come and see friends and have a little perspective. All the world’s had a bit of a tough year, I think.”