Kate Beckinsale, 46, says it’s ‘ridiculous’ how it can feel political for women over 32 to have fun

Kate Beckinsale has admitted that she thinks it’s ‘ridiculous’ that it seems women over the age of 30 are committing a ‘political act’ when they have fun.

The actress, 46, offered her views during a recent interview with Women’s Health magazine where she revealed she thinks it can feel ‘risqué’.

Kate explained: ‘It can feel like a little bit of a political act to be a woman over 32 who’s having any fun at all… 

She joked: ‘Oh my god, I’m going to sit home and anticipate menopause while crocheting ‘Unless you’re doing that, it somehow seems to be risqué, which is just ridiculous to me.’

The Pearl Harbour star went on to say that she doesn’t think men and women are held to the same expectations, and confessed she thinks men can do what they like.    

Kate revealed: ‘I witness men constantly doing whatever they like, whether that’s in relationships, or deciding to buy a motorbike, or getting a tattoo. 

‘It hasn’t been interpreted as, “Why hasn’t he had more children?” or “Is he ever going to decide to become a parent?’ or ‘Why has he had so many girlfriends?’

Kate also revealed how she thinks women are body-shamed ‘100 million per cent’ more than men.

However she gave an example of when her male friend and co-star was body-shamed, and said: ‘On this particular project, I wasn’t…Ben [Affleck], who’d already done a movie with the director [Michael Bay], was like, ‘This happened to me…

‘They made me get new teeth.’ And I was like, “Cool, at least I get to hang on to my actual teeth.”

Kate, who is in a relationship with Goody Grace, 22, also revealed her view on marriage and joked that it would work better if people didn’t live together.

She said: ‘I think more people would do well married if they didn’t have to live in the same house. Being married is kind of easy, but the living-with-the-person thing is a lot. 

‘I also think that, for women especially, and this is generalising, but I think it’s common for us to mentally subjugate our needs to whoever else is in the room.’ 

Kate and Goody were spotted together as far back as January when they were photographed leaving a pre-Grammys party together. 

Their blossoming romance was confirmed on Easter Sunday when they were seen hand-in-hand enjoying a stroll.

Kate also has been commenting on Goody’s Instagram posts as far back as January and shared her emotions with a heart emoji on one of his pictures.

The London native was previously married to director Len Wiseman, 47,, who met Kate met on the set of his 2003 movie Underworld. 

They married in 2004 in the Bel-Air area of Los Angeles, announced their separation in November 2015 and Len filed for a divorce in 2016 that was finalized in 2019.

Kate shares 21-year-old daughter Lily Mo Sheen from her previous relationship with Michael Sheen, 51, that lasted from 1995 to 2003.

Goody at age 17 moved from Canada to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music.

The full interview appears in the June issue of Women’s Health, on sale now.