Jameela Jamil

It's because I'm desperately trying to warn younger women and all women not to go into the basement.

Don't go and investigate the sound of patriarchy knocking down there.

Please don't go down there.

Stay up here and honor your life and honor your body and honor your health.

You know, I took a really bad fall last night at a premiere in front of everyone and I have marble burns on my skin.

Okay, I'm sorry, what?

I know, because I fell on marble and I went against it and I didn't know you could burn yourself on marble.

No.

But I was saying to my publicist this morning that thank Christ I don't have an eating disorder anymore and I'm building back my body because the osteoporosis that's coming from the hypernormalizing of becoming super skinny at all costs and taking all the injections and then not really doing the work to lift weights because no one wants to look bulky means that that fall...

If I hadn't been eating for the last 10 years, could have been multiple fractures because I really went down on marble.

And it really motivates me to be like, right, I need to get even stronger.

I need to get even more muscular because osteoporosis is real.

Dying of a fall is real and it is coming to women.

faster than in any other generation because of what we are doing to maintain super skinny.

This fucking ridiculous body type that doesn't make sense for anyone over the age of a prepubescent child, other than someone who's got an obscene metabolism.

And even then, they should be muscular.

For me, it was about obedience.

It was about knowing that I'm so different in so many other ways.

So perhaps if I could comply in this one way that I would be less bothered and I'd be able to fit in and then people would be nicer to me because you are treated differently when you're skinny.

And so I was just trying to do what I thought was expected of me.