Kate Beckinsale hits back at 'a**hole' followers for criticising her figure after the traumatic death of her stepdad, her mother's cancer diagnosis and a six-week hospital stay

Kate Beckinsale has revealed her weight loss is down to nan 'stress and grief' of nan decease of her stepfather and her mother's cancer test arsenic she deed backmost astatine trolls.

The British actress, 51, slammed immoderate of her 'a**hole' followers, who told her she needed to put connected weight successful nan comments conception of her latest Instagram post.

After sharing a video clip successful a harvest apical and bikini bottoms, 1 follower queried wherever her 'a**' had gone and encouraged Kate to 'do immoderate squats'.

Another claimed her assemblage had 'shrank' while different insisted that she 'seemed upset' successful nan video posted connected Monday evening. 

However, Kate fired backmost astatine nan sadistic comments ands explained that location were respective reasons for her changed figure, including a six-week infirmary stint.

She replied: 'No, actually, I watched my stepfather dice rather shockingly, my mother has shape 4 crab and I mislaid a batch of 8 from accent and grief...

'Quite quickly and past I was successful infirmary for six weeks because nan condolences had burned a spread successful my oesophagus, which made maine vomit copious amounts of blood, and I recovered eating very hard...

'And I conscionable worked very very difficult connected a movie that was really rather triggering because it besides progressive nan taxable of nan decease of my begetter truthful I'm not really concerned astir what you deliberation astir my a**. Maybe you should interest astir your ain f***ing a**. I propose shoving thing up it, for illustration a ample pineapple aliases a brick.'

Kate's stepdad Roy Battersby died successful January aft suffering 'a monolithic stroke' while battling 2 forms of cancer, which he was diagnosed pinch nan summertime before.

Shortly aft his death, Kate besides revealed that her mother Judy Loe had besides been told she has shape 4 cancer.

Another personification asked: 'How's your wellness Katie? You look for illustration you person mislaid immoderate weight?', to which she responded: 'It's awesome now thanks'.

One different replied underneath: 'I posted fundamentally nan aforesaid thing, she looks unhealthy' and different personification said: 'Someone seems upset'.

Kate quipped: 'I don't deliberation you look upset. I deliberation you look for illustration possibly your rictus grim is concealing years of bitterness but I wouldn't telephone it upset necessarily.'

In respective posts, Nicole claimed that she knew nan group down immoderate of nan comments, who she said were hiding down clone profiles.

In consequence to personification who asked 'Kate, you're getting everyone truthful rattled are they ok?', 'Are they okay hun? Are they okay? Actually? I cognize who rather a fewer of them are and they are really not okay.'

Replying to a personification who had said 'so weird really nan caput keeps increasing but nan assemblage shrinks. They move into gnomes', Kate said: 'the LOL of your bio image being an existent gnome surviving its champion life successful nan wood has fixed maine truthful overmuch life. I can't show you please spell stitchery immoderate much nuts and berries.'

As good arsenic replying to immoderate of nan antagonistic comments, Kate besides took nan clip to reply to immoderate of her fans who had wished her well.

One said: 'You person much existent fans who admit you than haters. Always cognize this [smiley look emoji]'.

Kate replied: 'Oh I emotion my followers I really do - immoderate of them are specified unthinkable decent, supportive superb souls of maine and of each other.

'I really person a problem pinch 2 group who support making aggregate accounts truthful don't beryllium fooled. A batch of this is them.'

Kate's original station was of her joking astir group who said she hasn't been acting her property connected societal media.

The exemplary playfully put a hairnet complete her caput and joked that she needed to return up knitting successful bid to beryllium much 'age appropriate' for her fanbase.

She captioned nan video: 'Let's person a toast for nan douche bags. Let's person a toast for nan a**holes. Let's person a toast for nan scumbags.'

In March Kate revealed she had been hospitalised aft sparking interest among her fans pinch tearful selfies.

She later explained nan logic down her infirmary stint successful a now-deleted Instagram post, writing: 'I spent six weeks successful infirmary owed to copiously vomiting humor from a Mallory Weiss tear caused by nan accent of a full twelvemonth ripping a spread betwixt my oesophagus [sic] and stomach.'

'That's what I americium prepared to disclose that has contributed to immoderate weight loss. What you deliberation of my quality and really I should look, independently of immoderate circumstances successful my life and my family's is not important.'

In caller months, Kate had been caring for her mother and precocious stepmother aft flying them retired from nan UK to enactment pinch her successful Los Angeles.

'Kate has been caring for her parents, who some person superior illnesses, for astir of nan year,' a root exclusively revealed to DailyMail.com precocious past year. 'She brought them to her location successful LA and has made looking aft them her number 1 priority.'

On January 10, Kate announced nan decease of stepfather Roy aged 87.

The insider revealed that nan Snow Angels prima — whose biologic begetter Richard Beckinsale died successful 1979 astatine 31 from a bosom onslaught successful his slumber — has been emotion nan affectional toll successful caller months.

'She was spotted this week respective times crying successful nan corridors of UCLA hospital,' nan root added. 'Her friends are very concerned that she has been nether relentless strain for months and hardly sleeping aliases eating.

'Kate appears to beryllium very beardown but this has been incredibly difficult and, fixed that she mislaid her begetter truthful young, is affecting her very deeply. Her friends are concerned for her ain health.'

A 2nd root explained that her mother Judy has chosen to support her wellness conflict private, stating: 'She's extraordinary, you wouldn't moreover cognize by looking astatine her. She has been keeping a very affirmative cognition passim everything.'

Kate shared a image of Roy's bid of work that revealed he was cremated connected Monday February 19 astatine Mortlake Crematorium adjacent Kew successful westbound London.

She besides shared different look astatine nan archive which had a saccharine connection on, on pinch much snaps of Roy.

It read: 'We wish to convey you, our family and friends, for your loving support and being pinch america coming to honour and commemorate Roy.

'Please subordinate america afterwards to observe him and his life, stock memories and stories, and inevitably miss him, knowing really overmuch he would bask specified a get-together'.

Kate's mother Judy joined Roy 18 years aft Kate's father, Porridge prima Richard Beckinsale, died.

Roy enjoyed his ain successful profession arsenic a director, moving connected awesome British on-screen hits including Inspector Morse and Cracker. His astir caller directorial in installments was for a 2006 section of A Touch Of Frost.

Kate's biologic begetter Richard Beckinsale was champion known for his roles arsenic Lennie Godber successful nan BBC sitcom Porridge and Alan Moore successful nan ITV sitcom Rising Damp.

He besides had a girl — Samantha, 55 — who is his only kid from his matrimony to Margaret Bradley.