Kate Beckinsale Replies to Instagram Comments About Her Weight

On Tuesday night, the 51-year-old actress shared a carousel of bikini photos to her page, showing her and her daughter Lily Sheen. Many, however, began to comment on her weight, with Beckinsale responding to a couple of them before deleting the post entirely.

One Instagram user wrote, "Oh sweetheart, I honestly think you have a problem. You don't look good. I think you honestly need help."

Beckinsale then responded with, "Yes I do. I'm going through one of the most deeply painful times of my life. The body keeps the score." To another commenter who said, "You need carbs," she simply replied, "Probably."

The Click star didn't elaborate further, but appeared to reference the book The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk.

But this is not the first time Beckinsale has had to defend herself and her weight, following similar criticism on a different post last year.

At the time, Beckinsale received another critical comment under one of her posts reading, "Sorry to say this Kate, but you do look a bit thin … You always striked a great balance … But when your cheekbones start to show, the balance is lost … 😢 😢.”

In her reply, however, Beckinsale did not hold back and opened up about some of her struggles.

"I nursed my stepdad dad to his death early this year. My mum also has stuff going on. I am adjusting to watching two fathers die, one when I was 5, one in January of this year," she said. "I lost my soulmate cat of almost 19 years, also last year. I spent six weeks in hospital due to copiously vomiting blood from a Mallory Weiss year caused by the stress of a whole year ripping a hole between my oesophagus and stomach."