Kate Beckinsale has deleted all of her Instagram posts after facing a barrage of body-shaming comments about her appearance.
The 53-year-old actress addressed the criticism on Instagram Stories on August 8, sharing some of the comments she had received about her weight. One commenter accused her of using Ozempic and said she looked “anorexic.”
Beckinsale explained that her weight loss has been influenced by both grief and her battle with mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), which she said she was diagnosed with 16 years ago. “First off, I’ve lost my entire family, except my precious daughter, in a short amount of time,” she said, referring to the deaths of her mother, Judy Loe, in 2025 and her stepfather, Roy Battersby, in 2024.
The actress also revealed that she receives cruel comments whenever she posts photos of herself, saying, “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.”
After one person asked whether she would like to gain weight, Beckinsale simply replied, “Yes, very much.” She ultimately suggested that she would keep her Instagram focused only on the books she recommends.
Indeed, a celebrity's image is constantly under scrutiny by the public and the media. Critics can be harsh, and members of the public ruthless, when it comes to voicing their opinions about celebrities' bodies. Click through to see the stars who have been body-shamed, and find out what they said about it.