Actress Kate Beckinsale has revealed a new tattoo honouring her late mother, Judy Loe, who died in July at the age of 78. The 52-year-old star shared images of the black-and-white ink on Instagram, showing a portrait of her mother from the 1960s on her arm.
The tattoo is placed below another inking that reads 'Fatherless scum', a reference to a David Bowie song, which pays tribute to her late father and stepfather. Beckinsale captioned the post with dark humour: 'If everyone would stop dying I wouldn’t have so many tattoos.'
In a previous post, Beckinsale described feeling 'paralysed with grief' after her mother's death, which occurred 18 months after the loss of her stepfather, director Roy Battersby. She wrote that her mother died 'in my arms after immeasurable suffering' and called her 'the compass of my life'.
The actress also has tattoos honouring her late cat Clive and a wolf on the same arm. Her father, actor Richard Beckinsale, died of a heart attack when she was five years old.
