Death of father and anorexia: 8 facts about Kate Beckinsale you didn’t know

In 1999, Kate gave birth to a daughter, Lily Mo, with actor Michael Sheen, whom she dated from 1995 to 2003. Although Beckinsale left Michael for Underworld director Len Wiseman, she maintained an excellent relationship with her former lover.

In 2019, Kate was hospitalized.

“It turned out that the ruptured cyst on the ovaries really hurt and I had to cry because of the morphine,” the actress commented on the picture from the hospital ward.

Pearl Harbor may have made her a famous actress, but she had to listen to director Michael Bay’s hurtful comments for the role.

“I just had my daughter and lost weight. But I was told that if I got the part, I would have to practice more. And I just didn’t understand why it was for a nurse from the 1940s,” Beckinsale recalled.

Kate claims it’s all thanks to her yoga and ballet lessons.

We know Kate as a talented actress, but she could also become a writer! In her youth, Beckinsale was a two-time winner of the WH Smith Young Writers Award for both fiction and poetry.

Richard Beckinsale was just 31 years old when he died in his sleep of a massive heart attack. Kate herself was only five years old at the time. Later, the actress admitted that her father’s death “100% destroyed her soul and affected her forever.”

In an interview with The Independent, she said that she stopped eating as a teenager because of the effects of the psychological trauma she suffered after her father’s death.

“If I had been older when I had a nervous breakdown, I think I would have become an alcoholic,” she admitted.

Fortunately, Kate then turned to her mother for help and was able to return to a healthy life.

The actress admitted that at one time she didn’t bother to get the rights and now she feels a little embarrassed about it.

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