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Kate Beckinsale<\/strong><\/a> is hitting back.<\/p>\n The 50-year-old actress took to social media on her Instagram over the weekend, and addressed comments regarding her appearance.<\/p>\n \u201cI hate talking about this because I hate adding to this conversation but I\u2019m doing it because insidious bullying of any kind over time takes a toll. These videos might be 20 years apart -maybe more,\u201d she began.<\/a><\/p>\n Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEvery time I post anything \u2013 and by the way, this has been the case since I was about 30 -I am accused of having had unrecognisable surgery \/using Botox using fillers \/being obsessed with looking younger, and it\u2019s really such a tiresome and subtly vicious way to bully a person.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t actually do any of those things -I\u2019ve even gone to the trouble of having a plastic surgeon categorically state that I don\u2019t and haven\u2019t, and still ,every time there\u2019s a chorus of my God, you\u2019re unrecognisable. Oh my God PLASTIC,oh my God, you don\u2019t even look like yourself anymore, it happens constantly and it\u2019s usually women that are doing it. Life happens -obviously I have aged, everybody ages,\u201d Kate<\/strong> went on say.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not too concerned about aging-because I found my father dead at the age of 5 ,I spent most of my teenage years and a good deal of my 20s absolutely crippled with severe anxiety and panic attacks that I was going to die of a heart attack too, and went to emergency rooms often, and was almost, at that time of my life, completely immobilised by that anxiety,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that one of the major things I am bullied about is an assumption that I can\u2019t handle the idea of getting older is so deeply ironic when my all consuming terror was that I never thought I\u2019d even see the end of my 20s. As you can see from these two videos ,what is different is that I lived in the UK, and was paler, I used to pluck the shit out of my eyebrows, I loved that brown lipstick that everybody wore. I had a fuller face , as most of us do in our late teens and 20s. Makeup techniques were matte ,not nearly so glossy . I thought contours were something I found difficult in geography lessons. .I\u2019m posting this knowing full well that it will have absolutely no effect. It isn\u2019t going to stop. But I\u2019m also posting it because whatever someone looks like, accusing them constantly of things they haven\u2019t done, or being obsessed with youth when actually, currently I\u2019m obsessed with surviving loss, is bullying. Please stop now.\u201d<\/p>\n See the pictures from her return to the red carpet following a health scare.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n