Jameela Jamil

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.

And there's an anthropological basis to this, right?

Fundamentally, on some level, we all want to be included.

We don't want to be left

behind and women are given this messaging that you will be left behind you'll be left behind if you don't meet whatever new fucking bullshit standard exists now and so what's so funny is that when you get older you realize oh it's a loop all these things that were in fashion come in and out of fashion and then they come in and out of fashion again i've maintained the same hairstyle for 38 years wow partially as an experiment

to see how often it comes back into fashion.

And my hairstyle literally gets called out as like a new trend every four years.

And it's a picture of me and my exact same hair that then went out of fashion.

So I'm like, why don't I just stay this?