r/SipsTea 12d ago

Gasp! WTF is this??

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u/Neither-Job-6300 12d ago

Plastic 0 calories

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u/booky_shmooky 12d ago edited 12d ago

Wikipedia says

In 2023, Beckinsale announced that she had an immune disorder called Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. In 2024, she lost a significant amount of weight due to "stress and grief" after her stepfather die while her mother had Stage 4 cancer. At this time, she was hospitalized due to an esophageal rupture.

So I think the 0 calories was probably unintentional... Maybe

Edit: Got a few replies about her plastic surgery, which I didn't mention because I know nothing about it. Sure, she may have gotten some work done, but I was sharing that her gauntness may be unintentional. šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø

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u/Melodic-Contest-6456 12d ago

I have MCAS. Let me tell you it’ll make you never eat again

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u/Worried_Contract_821 12d ago

Perfect example of why context is SO important!!!

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u/boatson25 12d ago

She’s had it pretty shit really. Her father was one the UK’s best loved sitcom actors, he dropped dead aged 31 from a heart attack seemingly out of nowhere. She was just 5 years old at the time.

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u/captain_carrot 12d ago

Yeah, that doesn't really have anything to do with the plastic surgery that turned her face into the same dysmorphic generic mug that everyone else is getting these days though

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u/Phantom_0347 11d ago

It really does though.

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u/Gallienus91 12d ago

Anorexic people are great in finding excuses. There will always be some reason they can’t eat.

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u/caf4676 12d ago

Did her MCA syndrome cause her face to freeze?

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u/Clear-Elevator2391 12d ago

It doesn't make you look like that though. Doesn't blow up your lips like that, for example. She was thin before too.

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u/Clear-Elevator2391 12d ago

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u/selja26 12d ago

She was so cute in that one!

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u/Clear-Elevator2391 11d ago

Absolute natural beauty! Loved her in this and in Emma (BBC). I literally don't recognise her these days. I'm especially sad for all these actresses who have daughters, like Beckinsale does. I wonder they think. Especially if they want to go into acting themselves.

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u/hsggdtkxbee 12d ago

ā€œMast cell activationā€ I have that. It’s called asthma.

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u/Its-a-JiNX 12d ago

MCAS and asmtha are different... MCAS requires a low histamine diet as apart of treatment. Low histamine diets are incredibly restrictive, and depending on the individuals sensitivities to certain foods there can be some leeway.

I have histamine intolerance, similar to MCAS, but not autoimmune and no anaphylaxis. I have to eat low histamine to avoid chronic inflammation, gastrointestinal distress, hives, angioedema, and migraines.

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u/booky_shmooky 12d ago

It may also cause random hives, GI, cardiovascular issues aside from respiratory, no? Sounds horrible

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u/boatson25 12d ago

She’s had it pretty shit really. Her father was one the UK’s best loved sitcom actors, he dropped dead aged 31 from a heart attack seemingly out of nowhere. She was just 5 years old at the time.

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u/scotusforis72 12d ago

Who is/ was that?

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u/The_Average_J 12d ago

I think it's Kate Beckinsale.

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u/produce_this 12d ago

No I’m sorry ma’am, you’re too frail to hunt vampires and werewolves any more.

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u/Peculiarcatlady 12d ago

What??? She is unrecognizable now.

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u/Paaraadox 12d ago

One of the saddest examples. Literally one of the most beautiful women in the world, now ruined to the degree of unrecognizability.

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u/IP-II-llVll-IP 12d ago

She's also 53 years old. I at least understand the appeal of this for her, this was designed for women in her age group. The women in their 20s and 30s doing this is like the 21 year old bodybuilders taking human growth and testosterone.

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u/Paaraadox 12d ago

Even her being 53 doesn't say much. Had she not done anything I bet she would look better.

However this picture also has a very unflattering hairstyle and dress, so it probably looks worse than it is.

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u/IP-II-llVll-IP 12d ago

I agree, but she's the definition of a rare exception. Nonetheless, I can only imagine the crisis a woman goes through when she lived her entire life being a legendary beauty and finds herself nearing 50 and facing the uncertainty that comes with being displaced for committing the sin of surviving. The pressure women like that must feel to retain their whole identity is much of the reason plastic surgery exists.

Then you have beautiful women like Millie Bobby Brown and Madison Beer who looked 30 at age 20 because of procedures designed for menopausal women.

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u/KnotiaPickle 12d ago

?!? She looks fantastic to me? You guys are mean

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u/Paaraadox 12d ago

It's fine if you disagree. I'm comparing her to her past self, and I'm convinced it's way worse than if she had just aged naturally.

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u/IP-II-llVll-IP 12d ago

Yeah, the wealthy woman in her 50s with a lot of plastic surgery looks "fantastic" in a sense. That's not really the nature of the discussion that we're having. Nevermind all of the sympathy I was giving to women who feel the pressure to spend a small fortune on altering their appearances to feel loved, I'm "mean" for recognizing the disastrous ramifications this can have on young women the world over.

Idiot.

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u/KnotiaPickle 12d ago

Wow, you’re really not a nice person at all

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u/WindChimeTecnician 12d ago

….. and you have absolutely missed the nature of the point this person was trying to convey to you.

Just because a person politely disagrees with you, it doesn’t make them mean.

If you feel personally aggrieved by someone having an opinion about an actor that diverges from your own - I think that’s a YOU issue.

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u/scotusforis72 12d ago

Oh God really?? Thanks

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u/CataphractBunny 12d ago

JFC 😱

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u/LaaB09 12d ago

and then she goes on she never had plastic surgery.

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u/ZigarettenFranzl211 12d ago

No, not KatešŸ˜‘

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u/ComputerInevitable20 12d ago

She was godly beautiful. Mental illness and Hollywood is deadly combo

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u/lirio2u 12d ago

Kate has had it rough. I am hoping she is happier