Actor and campaigner Jameela Jamil shared her own experience of tabloid body shaming on the Guardian’s Pop Culture With Chanté Joseph podcast.
, Jamil once again took aim at the unrealistic and unhealthy beauty standards imposed on women after a now viral article by the“No, we tried this before in the 90s and millions of people developed eating disorders,” Jamil told host Chanté Joseph in response. “I had one for 20 years. We’re not doing this again, we’re not going back.”
“We weren’t aware of our bodies yet, no one was pulling in their tummies and we were so innocent, but we all got weighed and she put our names on a chart like a leaderboard,” she said. “I weighed the most because I was the tallest and the biggest, and I was immediately made fun of. It was so quick, even as kids, for us to realise that there was a hierarchy and that that hierarchy involves thinness and how little space you take up.
“It’s a backlash to many people embracing their curves and not buying into the diet industry. But we control the market, we are the market, women in particular. They don’t get to tell us what the trends are. We will tell them what the trends are.”
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