Kate Beckinsale Bravely Opens Up About Coping With Grief After Her Mom’s Passing

Losing a mom comes with a lifetime of unexplained grief. While navigating this loss, Kate Beckinsale is being honest and open. People reported that in a tearful Instagram video shared on December 31, the actor spoke candidly about how grief has shaped her life over the past year.

Responding to public comments about her appearance, she explained how the emotional weight of multiple losses has affected her health, describing the period as “really, really hard.”

To jog your memory a little, Beckinsale lost her mother, Judy Loe, at age 78 following a battle with stage 4 cancer, just over a year after the death of her stepfather, Roy Battersby.

She said the back-to-back losses have reshaped her daily life as she continues to move forward through

‘It Doesn’t Make You Feel Very Hungry‘

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Beckinsale opened up how prolonged trauma and grief have affected her physically, explaining that her recent weight loss is rooted in emotional shock rather than intent.

“At the age of five, I watched my 31-year-old father die of a huge heart attack, and then I watched my stepfather die, and then I watched my mother degenerate and die in such an incredible amount of suffering,” she said through tears, as reported by People. “And I will say, it doesn’t make you feel very hungry.”

Beckinsale, whose father was actor Richard Beckinsale, emphasized that her experience does not align with disordered eating, but rather with the body’s response to overwhelming loss.

“It’s not like anorexia, where you’re starving, and it’s a kind of willpower thing. It’s like your body has closed down,” she said. “It’s shock and trauma.”

She continued by describing how witnessing such pain has changed her relationship with food. “Watching especially alone the people that you love the most dearly suffer and have horrific, sometimes violent, awful deaths really makes you not hungry.”

Turning Criticism Into Gratitude for Her Parents

While Beckinsale acknowledged that “people respond in different ways” to grief, she said the attention surrounding her appearance has only underscored the values she learned from her parents.

“I am so grateful that it wouldn’t occur to me to see somebody transparently suffering and write something nasty about their appearance,” she said, as reported by US Weekly.

“I’m so grateful to have been brought up by people who raised me like that, and I really miss them.”

The “Underworld” actor, who shares daughter Lily Mo Sheen, 26, with Michael Sheen, said those lessons continue to shape how she handles harsh commentary online.

Beckinsale Pushes Back Against Body Criticism Amid Grief

Beckinsale vulnerably responded to those who have criticized her appearance, emphasizing that she will not allow outside judgment to shape how she sees herself.

“For all the people who are inconvenienced by me being too thin or too anything or not what they expect me to be like, I really, really wish that you had parents like I had,” she said.

She made clear that the remarks have not changed the way she treats others, nor have they hardened her outlook.

“I absolutely refuse to become like you,” Beckinsale concluded. “And if that’s the legacy from my parents that I would never, ever do that to anyone, I am so f–king proud of it.”

As she continues to grieve, Beckinsale is using her platform to redirect the conversation toward empathy and compassion.

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