Beckinsale great-grandfather was a native of Burma, and Kate says that as a child she had a "very Asian appearance". Beckinsale’s stepfather, who came from a working-class family, thought it was pretty funny to hear the curses of the smart girl and he encouraged her for that.

American actress Jessica Biel admits that was very afraid of what "is happening in her body" after she married Justin Timberlake. The actress told the American edition of Glamour that she had been taking birth control pills for a long time.