\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n \tRelated story \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tThe Princess Diaries Star Reveals the Harsh Reality Facing Hollywood Actors Right Now\t\t<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n \t \n\tThis isn\u2019t the first time Beckinsale has wiped her social media clean in response to public scrutiny<\/a>. In August, she deleted all of her Instagram posts after facing persistent online criticism regarding her physical appearance following the deaths of her stepfather, director Roy Battersby, and her mother, Judy Loe.<\/p>\n \n\tAddressing critics at the time, she clarified that grief-induced appetite loss and mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) \u2014 which the Cleveland Clinic<\/a> defines as a rare immunological condition where overactive immune cells trigger repeated allergic-type episodes across the body \u2014 contributed to her sudden weight loss.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cYou take a break from Instagram for several months following the death of your mother, delete all of your posts, and explain in some considerable detail about what you may have lost weight, including the fact that weight loss is one of the very first physical signs of bereavement \u2026 I think people might be broken,\u201d Beckinsale wrote in an Aug. 8 post, per Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tIn December 2025, Beckinsale posted an emotional Instagram video where she discussed how severe emotional loss was affecting her day-to-day life and appetite.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201c2025 was a really, really hard year. It was also the last year that my incredible mum was on this planet. So I feel really torn about letting go of it as well,\u201d she said, per People<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI watched my 31-year-old father die of a huge heart attack, and then I watched my stepfather die, and I watched my mother degenerate and die,\u201d she continued. \u201cSuch an incredible amount of suffering, and what I will say, it doesn\u2019t make you feel very hungry.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tEarlier this month, Beckinsale brought attention to mental health challenges by speaking openly about her experience<\/a> with non-military post-traumatic stress disorder. Unlike military PTSD<\/a>, non-military PTSD develops after surviving severe personal trauma, sudden loss, or prolonged emotional shock in everyday life. It keeps the body in a continuous \u201cfight-or-flight\u201d state.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI think what people will find incredibly hard to understand about non-military PTSD \u2026 is that those people have seen or experienced levels of horror, terror, violence that they don\u2019t just dream about incessantly, so there\u2019s no rest,\u201d Beckinsale wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post. \u201cThey see it when they blink. Every time they close their eyes for a second and those people aren\u2019t recognized as heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n![\"the](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-sheknows-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
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