Kate Beckinsale hit back, even if she didn’t want to, at online trolls accusing her of plastic surgery all over social media.
The Underworld star, 50, took to her Instagram to reply to continuous “insidious bullying” of how she has looked in recent years, especially of the appearance of her face.
The British-born actress shared a really old video of herself from early on in her career and pointed out how fans and followers have abused decades old of her photos and clips to criticise and accuse her of Botox and fillers.
The star said that she doesn’t “actually do” this.
“I hate talking about this because I hate adding to this conversation but I’m doing it because insidious bullying of any kind over time takes a toll,” Beckinsale began in her lengthy caption.
She added, “These videos might be 20 years apart -maybe more. Every time I post anything – and by the way, this has been the case since I was about 30 -I am accused of having had unrecognisable surgery /using Botox using fillers /being obsessed with looking younger, and it’s really such a tiresome and subtly vicious way to bully a person.”
Despite the accusations, Beckinsale stands strong in her denial.
“I don’t actually do any of those things -I’ve even gone to the trouble of having a plastic surgeon categorically state that I don’t and haven’t,” Beckinsale declared in the caption of the post, adding, “and still ,every time there’s a chorus of my God, you’re unrecognisable… it happens constantly and it’s usually women that are doing it.”
“What is different is that I lived in the UK, and was paler, I used to pluck the s**t out of my eyebrows, I loved that brown lipstick that everybody wore. I had a fuller face , as most of us do in our late teens and 20s,” she explained what she meant to prove by the video she shared.
“Life happens -obviously I have aged, everybody ages; I’m not too concerned about aging-because I found my father dead at the age of 5 ,I spent most of my teenage years and a good deal of my 20s absolutely crippled with severe anxiety and panic attacks that I was going to die of a heart attack too,and went to emergency rooms often,and was almost, at that time of my life, completely immobilised by that anxiety.”
Beckinsale continued, “The fact that one of the major things I am bullied about is an assumption that I can’t handle the idea of getting older is so deeply ironic when my all consuming terror was that I never thought I’d even see the end of my 20s.”
She concluded in both, despair and hope, “I’m posting this knowing full well that it will have absolutely no effect. It isn’t going to stop. But I’m also posting it because whatever someone looks like, accusing them constantly of things they haven’t done, or being obsessed with youth when actually, currently I’m obsessed with surviving loss, is bullying. Please stop now.”
