Kate Beckinsale has opened up on the early death of her father – he died aged 31 and this has made her be thankful for every extra year she gets to live, while it has also changed her view of aging because she knows there is more to life than just being “pretty” and signs of aging just means she has had the chance to live in the first place:
“I love ‘pretty’ as much as anybody, but if that’s all there is as a culture, we’re screwed. I think you have to be as objective about that as possible and say, ‘There is nothing that serves my soul in wondering how crow’s feet are going to affect my life.’ It’s something to be resisted. Ageing is going to happen and it should. My father died at 31, so to me ageing is extremely preferable to the alternative, which is not ageing. Every year I get past 31, I think, ‘Thank God.’ It’s a gift to be able to go, ‘I look different, that means I’m not dead!'”
Speaking on the possibility of having more children, Kate says she would love to have a child with her current husband but knows that nature will also make the decision for her if she doesn’t decide on time, but at the moment she isn’t craving a new baby:
“There’s absolutely part of me that goes, ‘I’d love to have a baby in the relationship I’m in, and have that experience when the relationship’s really good and exclusive,’ but I’m just not sure. At some point the decision will be made for me, when my ovaries dry up and die. We’ll see. There’s nothing that makes me go, ‘And now I must have triplets!'”
