Kate Beckinsale took to Instagram earlier this week to once and for all shut down rumors that she's had plastic surgery of any kind.
The actor made the post following a recent red carpet appearance at the King's Trust Gala on Thursday, which marked her first public appearance since being hospitalized for unknown reasons.
The following day, Beckinsale addressed the "insidious bullying" she's been subjected to over the years, pleading for it to "please stop now."
The Underworld star posted two videos, which she noted "might be 20 years apart," and called out trolls who constantly obsess over her looks.
She began her post:
"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."
"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."
Beckinsale continued, saying that has never been the case.
"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, and still ,every time there’s a chorus of my God, you’re unrecognisable."
"Oh my God PLASTIC,oh my God, you don’t even look like yourself anymore, it happens constantly and it’s usually women that are doing it."
She added that looks do, in fact, change over time, but she's more concerned with "getting older" than holding on to her youth.
"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."
"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 actor stressed that many factors contribute to changes in appearance.
"As you can see from these two videos ,what is different is that I lived in the UK, and was paler,I used to pluck the sh*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."
" Makeup techniques were matte ,not nearly so glossy . I thought contours were something I found difficult in geography lessons."
Beckinsale finished her post with a plea for the obsession to stop but, sadly, with an acknowledgment that it likely won't.
"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."
You can see the post below.
Viewers of the post expressed their sadness that Beckinsale continues to experience online bullying, but they applauded her for standing up to the trolls.
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Others added that she should pay the bullies no mind.
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And we agree! Stunning, as always.
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