Jameela Jamil says her "body is broken forever" by society's beauty standards.
Jameela Jamil has urged women to ignore the pressures of society
The 38-year-old actress - who was named Glamour's Game Changing Voice of the Year at this year's ceremony in London on Tuesday (01.10.24) - bemoaned the return of "heroin chic" and insisted a decade after she was last honoured at the event, women are again "suffering and risking our lives" to meet other's expectations.
Speaking at the event, she urged: "I beg of you, as I stand here with a body broken forever because of what I put it through for our society’s beauty standards... to not sell your old lady self short."
'The Good Place' star insisted there had been optimism a decade ago, but things have once again become difficult for women.
She said: "Boys are encouraged to build their bodies, and build their futures and legacies.
"While women and girls are starving, injecting and hurting – and sometimes literally dying – for the fastest possible route to the ever-changing, fickle beauty standard.
"Why is women's discomfort and harm still so hyper normalised?"
She encouraged other women and girls to fight against misogyny and make decisions for their own personal grown.
She continued: "The patriarchy seeks to distract, destroy and erase [women] by the time we get older because we become harder to control. Because we become too valuable.
"And we must not find out, otherwise we might start spending more of our energy on things that could even the playing field in this world.
"We might start getting proper sleep. We might eat enough nutrients. We might become too happy in ourselves and genuinely confident in who we are. Can you imagine what we could do?"
Earlier this year, Jameela opened up about how her battle with anorexia and body image issues "destroyed" her bones and damaged her organs.
Speaking on the 'Let’s Talk off Camera with Kelly Ripa' podcast, she said: “Yeah, I took so many laxatives, I'm amazed I even still have an a******, to be perfectly honest. It's a real trooper. It's a survivor.
"I took any pill or drink or diet that Oprah recommended. I did it. I took it. You know, any very low calorie supermodel diet.
"I f***** up my kidney, my liver, my digestive system, my heart, and most recently, I found out that I have destroyed my bone density.”
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