Kate Beckinsale is putting her foot down after critics slammed her recent appearance at the King’s Trust Global Gala last week.
The ageless British beauty strutted the red carpet in an elaborate white gown flaunting her toned figure with some generous cutouts and swept her golden brown curls into a high updo tied together with a black bow.
On Instagram, some questioned in the comments if the actress was wearing a wig, whether she had joined the celebrity weight loss craze around Ozempic and claimed she had undergone plastic surgery to keep her good looks.
While she has stayed relatively silent on the topic, the 50-year-old evidently had enough as she hit back on Sunday morning with a lengthy statement slamming the “vicious” comments and making her stance on plastic surgery clear to the theorists.
She wrote: “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.”
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Kate explained that she avoids commenting on the subject because she doesn’t want to fuel the conversation but couldn’t shoulder the toll that the “insidious bullying” was taking anymore.
She assured that she hasn’t done “any of those things” and has gone to a plastic surgeon asking them to “categorically state that I don’t and haven’t”.
The actress 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.”
The Underworld actress explained that after finding her father dead from a heart attack when she was just five years old she had been “absolutely crippled” with fear about suffering a similar fate until she almost became “completely immobilised by that anxiety”.
She paired the message with two clips, the first from her early modelling days as she flicked her long brunette locks to show off her large statement earrings and another of her walking backstage at the gala last week for comparison.
Kate painstakingly pointed out every difference in her appearance and the reasons behind them, from lifestyle changes to differing makeup trends, jokingly adding that in the first clip she only knew contours as “something I found difficult in geography lessons”.
In an emotional sign-off, the Serendipity star pleaded: “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.”
