Kate Beckinsale Lost Her Mom, Her Stepdad, and Nearly Her Whole Family in a Short Span, and People Online Called Her Weight Loss Proof She’s on Meth

Kate Beckinsale answered the people calling her weight loss a sign of meth or anorexia with the one fact they skipped over. She’s spent the last year burying almost everyone she loved, and she lives with a disease where eating can be deadly. Then she deleted every post on her Instagram and stepped away.

Beckinsale lives with mast cell activation syndrome, an autoimmune disease she was diagnosed with 16 years ago in which the immune system floods the body with chemicals that trigger allergy-like attacks. In one of her now-deleted posts she explained that eating could actually kill her, which she pointed to when a commenter insisted she “must” eat.

Her mother, actress Judy Loe, died in July 2025 after a battle with stage 4 cancer. Her stepdad, director Roy Battersby, died more than a year before that. The 53-year-old said she’s lost her entire family in a short span, except her 29-year-old daughter Lily Mo Sheen, whom she shares with ex Michael Sheen.

On August 8 she posted screenshots of the comments telling her she looks “disgusting” and that she’s “anorexic” or “on meth.” She noted that weight loss is one of the first physical signs of grief, and wrote, “I think people might be broken.”

She compared the speculation to what Chadwick Boseman faced before his 2020 death from colon cancer, a private illness strangers guessed at from his changing appearance. “You don’t know what’s going on in people’s lives,” she wrote. “If you don’t have anything nice to say, maybe don’t say anything.”

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