Kate Beckinsale recently opened up about her emotional struggles throughout 2025, sharing her journey through grief with her followers.

“As we come to the close of 2025, it’s been an incredibly challenging year,” Beckinsale, 52, expressed in a heartfelt video on Instagram on December 31. “This year marks the last I had with my amazing mom on this earth, which makes it hard to let go.”

Reflecting on her past losses, she added, “I lost my stepfather some years back, and having already experienced my father’s death, it was a lot to bear. At just five years old, I witnessed my father, who was only 31, pass away from a massive heart attack. Later, I watched my stepfather and eventually my mother endure immense suffering before passing away. It’s not something that leaves you with much appetite, and I wonder if it’s a form of survivor’s guilt that started after my stepdad’s passing. It’s different from anorexia; it’s not about willpower but rather an involuntary response.”

Beckinsale described this experience as her body “shutting down,” attributing it to the shock and trauma she has faced.

In another Instagram post shared on March 11, Beckinsale, 50, revealed more personal moments by posting a series of images, including a tearful selfie from a hospital bed. She shared these as part of a tribute to UK Mother’s Day and to honor her mother, Judy Loe, on her birthday, further illustrating the emotional journey she continues to navigate.

“I think watching, especially alone, the people that you love the most dearly suffer and have horrific and sometimes violent, awful deaths really makes you not hungry,” she continued. “And people respond in different ways, obviously, but if you google physical manifestations of grief, changes in appetite is probably the first one. Even after a bad breakup, I think it’s the first one. But I will say that because of my dad and my stepdad and my mom, I am so grateful that it wouldn’t occur to me to see somebody transparently suffering and write something nasty about their appearance. It just wouldn’t cross my mind. I am so grateful to have been brought up by people who raised me like that. And I really miss them.”

Beckinsale particularly addressed “all the people who are inconvenienced by me being too thin or too anything or not what they expect me to be like,” saying that she wishes they had loving parents like she had.

“I’m so glad that suctioning blood clots from my stepdad’s bladder while he’s suffering heart failure and trying to save his life and having to be the one to stop chest compressions on my mother as they broke all her ribs has not turned me into the type of cruel piece of s*** that would say the stuff that a lot of you guys say to me,” she concluded. “I absolutely refuse to become like it. And if that’s the legacy from my parents that I would never ever do that to anyone, I am so f***ing proud of it.”

The comments section of the post flooded with love for the Serendipity actress.

“You speak for many of us that have experienced such grief, Kate — hang in there, you’re not alone. We find ways to return joy into our lives — and you help us all with your immoral movies, which give me joy. Your wit and humor will return — it’s important to grieve; the fruit falls from the tree when it’s ripe. 💞,” one follower wrote.

“There are far too many unkind people in this world! Please know that the kind ones hold you in their heart always! We love you darling Kate xxxxx,” a second supporter said.

“Sending you all the love in the world, Kate. Your family in the UK are here and thinking of you. Much love and support ❤️,” Amy Beckinsale wrote.

Kate announced the death of her mother, Judy Loe, on July 15 at age 78 after a battle with stage IV cancer.

“She has been brave in so many ways, forgiving sometimes too much, believing in the ultimate good in people — and the world is so dim without her that it is nearly impossible to bear,” Kate wrote via Instagram at the time. “Mama, I love you so much. This has been my greatest fear since finding my father dead at five and I am here. Oh my Mama.. I’m sorry, I’m so sorry. I am so sorry.”

Less than a year prior, Kate took to the social media platform to share news of stepfather Roy Battersby’s death at 87 after a brief illness on January 10, 2024. “I fought for you with everything I had. Oh Roy I am so sorry I lost,” she captioned a video montage of Battersby via Instagram on January 15, 2024.

At the start of 2025, Kate opened up about her heartbreak in another post.

“I am so lucky that I was raised by someone who uncompromisingly knew what was right and lived it. And loved me,” she wrote in a January 10 tribute to her stepdad. “Thank you for being my father. I miss you so much.”