Overview
- In a video posted Wednesday, the 52-year-old actor called 2025 a really hard year and spoke through tears about recent bereavement.
- Beckinsale said her body felt like it had closed down, describing the change as physical shock rather than anorexia or a matter of willpower.
- She mentioned possible survivor's guilt and noted that people respond to grief in different ways, including appetite loss.
- Beckinsale rebuked what she called nasty body-shaming comments on social media and said she refuses to mirror such behavior.
- She lost her mother, Judy Loe, on July 15 at 73 after stage 4 cancer, with a funeral at Chiswick House, and her stepfather, Roy Battersby, died in January 2024 after a massive stroke during cancer treatment.