Kate Beckinsale clapped back at her critics in a pretty unrecognizable way.
The actress took to Instagram on Wednesday with a series of photos and videos of herself, although fans may not have recognized her at first. Instead of her typical glamorous red carpet appearance, Beckinsale shared snaps of herself transformed into an old man dressed for the wedding. The images and footage, which appear to be from her 2023 Halloween costume, show the star wearing a mask and a white suit, sitting in a wheelchair with fake testicles hanging from her pant leg. Accompanied by someone dressed as a bride, the two commemorated Anna Nicole Smith at her wedding to 89-year-old J. Howard Marshall in 1994.
However, the posts did not serve the purpose of an Instagram reminiscence. Instead this Click Taking aim at her naysayers, the actress wrote: “New deal. That’s all you get. I hope it’s less triggering and more of what you think is age appropriate. Sayonara bitches.”
Her response comes just days after hers posted a now-deleted message about the impact of social media trolls Commenting on her appearance took a toll on her.
“I hate talking about this because I hate contributing to this conversation, but I do it because insidious bullying of any kind takes its toll over time,” Beckinsale said recently made her first appearance on the red carpet after be treated in hospitalwrote.
Beckinsale continued: “These videos could be 20 years apart – maybe more. Every time I post something, which has been since I was 30, I’m accused of having undetectable surgery/botox with fillers.” /I’m obsessed with looking younger , and it really is a tiring and subtly vicious way to bully a person.
“Actually, I don’t do any of that – I even went to the trouble of having a plastic surgeon state categorically that I don’t and don’t,” Beckinsale continued in the caption, “and yet every time.” There is a chorus of “My God, you’re unrecognizable…it happens all the time and it’s usually women who do it.”
The 50-year-old not only explains the natural changes in her appearance over the decades; Stepfather, Roy Battersbydied in January – also addressed the “irony” that people think they can’t cope with aging.
“Life happens – obviously I’ve aged, everyone ages; “I’m not too worried about aging – because I found my father dead when I was five, I spent most of my teenage years and much of my 20s completely crippled.” I suffered from severe anxiety and panic attacks that “I was also going to die of a heart attack, I went to the emergency room a lot and at that point in my life I was almost completely immobile because of that fear,” she explained. “The fact that one of the main reasons I am bullied is the assumption that I can’t cope with the thought of getting older is deeply ironic, since my all-consuming fear was that I never thought I would “I would see the end of my life in the 1920s.”
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