Beautiful beautiful She got candid about weight loss trends while speaking about her recovery from an eating disorder.
“The number of people in my industry just taking it to go from skinny to super-skinny, to finally get to the obedient physique to fit obedient sample sizes…. “It was hard to watch,” Jamil, 38, wrote via Twitter. Instagram On Friday, December 27th. “Especially for those of us who have battled eating disorders. Who are they really doing this for?”
Jamil said she plans to “skip this course.” “The curves will come back,” she continued. They always do. Then they will leave again. Then I come back. I don't play with my mind, my heart, my bone density, or my metabolism for direction. Can't be left in a loop. What do we teach children?!”
In addition to the message, The good place The alum shared a photo of herself giving a soft smile to the camera while holding something in her hand.
“Bloody hell. My anorexia high is pretending to eat chocolate,” Jamil wrote above the photo. “Pretending to be happy. Pretending I'm not about to faint.”
In the next photo, Jamil looked away, smiling and slicking her hair back while wearing a black one-piece swimsuit and a pair of sunglasses. In the last slide, Jamil dances in the water while eating a slice of pizza.
“May I have the strength during this era of Ozambian heroin elegance, in my industry to continue this good work you have done in my mind throughout 2025,” she wrote via video. “I would rather leave this industry than get sucked into it again.”
Over the years, Jamil has been criticized Weight loss trends and products. In 2023, she got candid about her thoughts towards people He allegedly uses Ozempic For reasons of weight loss.
“I've said what I said about the potential harm to people who use diabetes medication just to lose weight. I fear for everyone in the next few years,” she wrote on Instagram at the time. “Rich people are buying this stuff over the counter for upwards of $1,000. Actual diabetics are seeing a deficiency. It's now a craze in Hollywood.
“I hope this doesn't end the same way we were told that opioids are safe. There is no discussion of side effects in any online ad,” she continued. “I'm very concerned but I can't change any of your thoughts because fatphobia has set our generation “In a suffocating place.”
Reflecting on her journey, Jamila participated in a 2019 episode of the show Emerging Hollywood It started Struggling with her body At an early age.
“I was embarrassed to have a small belly as a 7-year-old,” she explained. “By the time I was 11 or 12, I was very self-conscious about my body because I wanted to look like all the anorexic models in my magazines, and I was completely anorexic by the time I was about 13. “
After becoming “completely physically disabled” in a car accident when she was 17, Jamil said she had an epiphany. “This body was doing so much for me all the time and I was starving it and hurting it so bad and trying to kill it all the time,” she said.
While the incident marked a turning point for Jamil, the actress said she suffered with her body for years afterward. “I still struggle with an anorexic mentality that lasted until I was about 28 or 29,” she said.
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