Kate Beckinsale I’ve had enough.
The actress once again hit back at a pessimist on Instagram while also sharing more context about her weeks-long hospitalization earlier this year.
What prompted her public comment? “Go do some squats @katebeckinsale,” one critic commented on one of her recent Instagram posts. “I think your ass ran away.”
“No, actually, I watched my stepfather die in a pretty shocking way, my mom has stage 4 cancer, and I lost a lot of weight from the stress and the grief, pretty quickly,” Beckinsale countered, “and then I was in the hospital for six weeks because the grief had burned a hole in my esophagus, which made me vomit a lot of blood, and I found eating really difficult and I worked really, really hard on a movie that was really stressful because it also involved the theme of my dad dying, so I’m not really worried about what you guys think of me.”
Clearly bluntly, the Click star concluded: “Maybe you should worry about your own ass. I suggest shoving something up it, like a large pineapple or a brick.”
The comments came on a video Beckinsale posted on Monday, in which she stood in front of a mirror putting on a hairnet while wearing a pink off-the-shoulder top and matching pants that appeared to be underwear. In the footage, she commented on followers who “get really upset” when they think she’s not doing things appropriate for her age.
“For those of you who are gonna dig this,” she joked, “go ahead, bitches.”
Beckinsale’s stepfather, Roy Battersby, died in January aged 87. Two months later, the actress revealed that she was in the hospital, but did not reveal the reason for her admission.
“Kate Beckinsale not feeling well or well. She should go to the Vanity Fair “She had to cancel her Oscar party,” a source told ET at the time. “She’s doing the best she can to take care of herself, but it’s not a great situation.”
She has since spoken out against ongoing speculation about whether she has had plastic surgery. “I get accused of having unrecognizable surgery/using Botox/fillers/being obsessed with looking younger, and it really is such a tiresome and subtly cruel way to bully a person,” she said. wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post in May.
At the time, the 50-year-old artist shed light on the health anxieties she suffered in her youth and the irony of critics’ recent claims that she is uncomfortable with aging.
“Life happens — obviously I get older, everyone gets older; I’m not too worried about getting older — because I found my father dead when I was 5, I spent most of my teenage years and a good part of my 20s absolutely crippled with severe anxiety and panic attacks that I was going to die of a heart attack, and I was going to emergency rooms frequently, and I was almost, at that point in my life, completely immobilized by that anxiety,” she explained. “The fact that one of the main things I’m bullied about is an assumption that I can’t handle the idea of getting older is so deeply ironic when my overwhelming terror was that I never thought I would see the end of my 20s.”
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