Kate Beckinsale Details Health Battle & Grief, Deletes Social Media Pics

Kate Beckinsale is taking a step back.

Just before the Pearl Harbor actress wiped her Instagram account of all posts, she addressed ongoing criticisms she’s faced online about her weight, alongside screenshots of comments about her appearance.

“You take a break from Instagram for several months following the death of your mother,” Beckinsale wrote in an Aug. 8 Instagram Story, per People, “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… I think people might be broken.”

She shared a screenshot in another Instagram Story with one user telling her she “must” eat, to which she pointed to her now-deleted 13-part post discussing her mast cell activation syndrome diagnosis (MCAS), a disease in which the immune system releases too many naturally produced chemicals that cause allergy-like attacks.

“Having just made a several slides post about how eating could actually kill me,” the 53-year-old wrote alongside the comment, “this is a little beyond.”