Kate Beckinsale posts sweet selfie with beloved cat Willow… after revealing how she ‘lost a baby at 20 weeks’ in ‘soul destroying’ experience years ago
Kate Beckinsale charmed her fans this Wednesday with an Instagram selfie co-starring her cat Willow.
The 47-year-old movie star looked somewhat bemused as her cat lay on the bed behind her and stuck one of her legs in the air.
‘My presence inspiring the usual level of avid excitement in Willow,’ she joked in her caption for her more than four million followers.
So sweet: Kate Beckinsale charmed her fans this Wednesday with an Instagram selfie co-starring her cat Willow
Kate, who along with Willow has a another cat called Clive and a Pomeranian called Myf, explained to People last year that ‘Cats are easier than dogs.’
She noted that ‘you don’t have to walk around with a bag of poo like you do with a dog, which I hate to walk around with a bag of poo.’
Her new selfie comes one day after she posted a message revealing she once suffered the ‘soul destroying’ experience of having ‘lost a baby at 20 weeks.’
Kate made the revelation in the wake of news that Chrissy Teigen had lost a baby about halfway through her pregnancy.
Furry friends: Kate, who along with Willow has a another cat called Clive and a Pomeranian called Myf, explained to People last year that ‘Cats are easier than dogs’
Chrissy and her husband John Legend share two children called Luna, four, and Miles, two, and had already named their next baby Jack.
Some observers raised their eyebrows after Chrissy posted a series of Instagram pictures of the family in the hospital grieving the miscarriage and cradling Jack.
‘I’ve noticed people criticizing @chrissyteigen for sharing deeply intimate photos of the loss of her baby,’ Kate wrote on her Instagram page.
‘As if there’s some protocol during soul-scouring calamity that, if not observed, emboldens people who do not know her or her family to say how she should be handling the unimaginable.’
‘I absolutely collapsed inside’: Her new selfie comes one day after she posted a message revealing she once suffered the ‘soul destroying’ experience of having ‘lost a baby at 20 weeks’
Kate shared: ‘Years ago, I lost a baby at 20 weeks. I had managed to keep my pregnancy quiet and I absolutely collapsed inside and no one would have known.’
She has a 21-year-old daughter called Lily by her ex Michael Sheen and was also married to her Underworld director Len Wiseman from 2004 to 2019.
The Love And Friendship actress wrote of the aftermath of her experience: ‘There is grief, shame and shock so often that come with an experience like this, plus the heartbreak of your body continuing, after the loss, to act as if it had a child to nurture. Your milk comes in, with no one to feed.’
Kate explained: ‘It can be the loneliest, most soul destroying period of time, particularly if you are not in the position of having an emotionally connected, supportive partner like Chrissy has.’
Family tragedy: Kate’s revelation came in the wake of news that Chrissy Teigen had lost a baby about halfway through her pregnancy
She argued: ‘I think it’s an honour to be allowed into another persons grief, especially with a subject like this which so often puts a woman into that hall of mirrors state of life continuing as if the world hasn’t, for you ,come to a bloody and terrible halt.;
The London-born film star added that she was ‘Sending so much love to the Legend family, but also so much to the women and couples who have kept it quiet and suffered. I know there are so many.’
Kate concluded: ‘Thank you @chrissyteigen for making sure it is abundantly clear how devastating this is, and how life changing it can be without support. Let’s let the grieving decide what’s right for them. Send support or keep quiet . This is a really hard time to bear .Blessings and hugs to all x’.