Jameela Jamil criticises Hollywood’s ‘period of Ozempic heroin stylish’ as actress warns even super-slim stars are resorting to weight-loss jabs You
Jameela Jamil has criticised Hollywood’s ‘era of Ozempic heroin chic’ and warned that even super-slim stars are resorting to weight-loss jabs.
The Good Place actress, who has publicly documented her own teenage struggles with anorexia, said it ‘has been hard to watch’ already thin stars taking fat jabs ‘to go from slim to super skinny’.
In a post on Instagram –alongside a video of herself eating in a black bikini – the 38-year-old told her nearly four million followers: ‘The amount of people in my industry just taking it to go from slim to super skinny, to finally achieve the obedient waif physique to fit the obedient sample sizes… has been hard to watch.
‘Especially for those of us who have fought off eating disorders. Who are they really doing it for?’
She added: ‘I plan on sitting out this cycle. Curves will come back. They always do.
‘Then they will go away again. Then come back.
Jameela Jamil (pictured) has criticised Hollywood’s ‘era of Ozempic heroin chic’ and warned that even super-slim stars are resorting to weight-loss jabs
Jamil , who has publicly documented her own teenage struggles with anorexia, said it ‘has been hard to watch’ already thin stars taking fat jabs ‘to go from slim to super skinny’ (Stock image)
‘I’m not playing with my brain, my heart, my bone density, or my metabolism for a trend.’
In May, the star revealed how her eating disorder had ‘destroyed’ her bone density.
She said: ‘I’m so sorry to my body that I have jeopardised my future so severely for a beauty standard and to try to fit in with other people.’