Jameela Jamil

And actually, this is nonsense.

This is just for someone else's profit.

And I think for some people, eating disorders can be about control.

I'm sure there was an element of that.

As a young woman in this world, it's very hard to feel in control of anything.

It's very hard to grasp your autonomy.

But it was obedience.

And when I look around now at how super skinny everyone's getting, women of all ages, and the tweaking and the facelifts and everything, I don't judge them.

I despair of their obedience and their compliance.

That's all I can see everywhere.

What I used to see is as an aspiration.

I now see as obedience and compliance.

And that makes me really sad because there's this whole life to live that we're missing out on.

And I can say from experience how all consuming diet culture is, how all consuming picking yourself apart, looking in the mirror for things to fix is.

It made me a boring person.

It made me an exhausted person.

I was too tired to have sex.

I was too tired to socialize.

I would avoid socializing in case I might eat too much at that delicious restaurant that I fucking wish I'd eaten at.

It's very navel-gazing, it's very self-obsessive.