Jameela Jamil

It kept me going.

It kept me going through assault.

It kept me going through constant terror of this world.

It kept me going through crazy jobs, through learning martial arts for marble, all the accidents that I've had from how clumsy I am.

This body has taken me through so much.

And then I dare to disparage it for not looking like an image that was created by a man who wants to have sex with teenagers.

That's ultimately what we're all gunning towards here.

There are men who want to have sex with teenagers who have created a beauty standard that normalizes their desire to have sex with teenagers by making us all look or try to look like teenagers.

And that is deeply unacceptable to me.

And so understanding that and going...

no, actually, I think my body's worth more than this and she deserves a bit of love and care.

And that doesn't mean just also putting a bunch of alcohol and shit in your body.

It means treating your body like an engine that needs to be nourished and cared for.

And I don't say bad things about my body in the mirror anymore.

And I don't treat it with the disdain that we have been trained.

We've been trained to teach our bodies like they are some sort of disobedient disgrace.

Yeah.

Yeah, yes, agreed.

Like a hindrance.

But also again, your body wasn't allowed to be your own in such a formative period of time.