Kate Beckinsale is tired of ‘insidious bullying’, speculation about plastic surgery

Kate Beckinsale is tired of all the speculations on her physical appearance, adding that she has not gotten plastic surgery done.

“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, 50, said in a post on Instagram, which also had two videos of her 20 years apart.

Beckinsale’s comments come right after it emerged that she was in the hospital for a few months for reasons she has not yet disclosed.

The actor said that she is tired of being accused of “having had unrecognisable surgery /using Botox using fillers / being obsessed with looking younger,” ever since she turned 30.

“It’s really such a tiresome and subtly vicious way to bully a person,” Beckinsale said.

Beckinsale said that she doesn’t actually “do any of those things,” and that she has even had a plastic surgeon clarify that, but the comments don’t stop.

happens constantly and it’s usually women that are doing it,” Beckinsale said. “Life happens – obviously I have aged, everybody ages.”

However, Beckinsale said that she is “not too concerned” about aging because of her father’s death, who died when she was just 5.

Beckinsale said that her father’s demise left her “absolutely crippled with severe anxiety and panic attacks” and she thought she too would die of a heart attack like him.

All that stress would lead her to the emergency rooms often and she would be “completely immobilised by that anxiety.”

The “Underworld” star said that she finds it ironic when people accuse her of being scared of aging because she never thought she would even see the end of her 20’s.

Beckinsale also went onto explain that she looks different in the two videos because earlier when she lived in the U.K., she was paler, would pluck of her eyebrows and had a fuller face as most people in their late teens/early 20’s do.

She also said that the difference in makeup techniques also contributed to the difference in appearance.