Kate Beckinsale in Beverly Hills.

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Actress Kate Beckinsale says she is being starved of sex because her director husband has been too busy working.
The Underworld star said Len Wiseman had become a “virtual stranger” while working on the new Die Hard film.
Wiseman, 34, has been editing and directing Live Free or Die Hard, which sees Bruce Willis return to action as popular hard man John McClane and tackle an internet-based terrorist organisation.
“I’ve told him he is going to have to make it up to me. I won’t let him out of bed for a month,” the 33-year-old told a Sunday magazine.
Former anorexic Kate Beckinsale has been accused of insensitivity after she likened anorexic girls to ‘crack whores’ and said family problems were often to blame for the condition.
Kate, whose weight once plummeted to five stones, said: ‘I believe anorexia, alcoholism and drug abuse in teens are more about what is happening in the home than a problem with images in the media.
‘It is the nice girl’s way of becoming a crack whore.’
Kate, 33, was brought up by her mother Judy Loe after her actor father Richard Beckinsale died of a heart attack when she was five.
When she was nine, her mother married director Roy Battersby – a relationship the actress said contributed to her problems in her teens, which culminated in her developing anorexia at 15.
She has previously said: ‘I was convinced I was going to be relegated, that he would sell the house where I had always lived and it would be awful.’
She added: ‘I got to the stage where I think I was about to die. I had no energy and my main goal was to be able to stand up.
‘Finally I realised I had to choose between being a person or a professional anorexic.’
Ros Ponomarenko-Jones, whose daughter Sophie Mazurek starved herself to four stones before dying last year of heart failure at 19, said she felt ‘completely insulted’.
‘She (Beckinsale) has been totally flippant and does not really know what she is talking about,’ she said. ‘She is not giving anorexia the status it deserves as a mental illness.’
Eating disorder charity Beat warned that anorexia resulted from more deep-rooted problems than the family circumstances and images surrounding teenage girls.
A spokesman said: ‘Anorexia stems from low self-esteem and an inability to cope safely with worries and problems. It is not a diet gone wrong.’
