Jameela Jamil regrets ever letting others make her photo look like something unlike herself.
“The Good Place” actress reveals to Red magazine how old modelling photos of her were constantly airbrushed and photoshopped.
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“When I first started out in this industry, I didn’t know I was allowed to say no to airbrushing. I was given a whiter face, a little English nose and perfect skinny thighs. It makes me feel gross,” she exclaims. “I’m sorry to anyone who ever saw pictures of me like that and wanted to be thin like me.”
“I still suffer from body dysmorphia. I can’t get rid of it. Something’s wrong with my brain and I will rally against it forever,” Jamil says. ‘I don’t weigh myself anymore and I sort of judge my size on how my clothes fit because I know that I’ll never be able to see myself properly.”
This is one of the reasons Jamil, 32, launched the “I Weigh” campaign on social media to encourage “body positivity.”
She also opens up to Red about how she was sexually assaulted 10 years ago: ‘I didn’t know anything about consent or how to protect myself as a young woman. Then I found myself, aged 22, being sexually assaulted.”
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“It was the end of a date and I was raped by someone that I had met very briefly before then. I didn’t know who to turn to or how to feel about it. I just felt like it was my fault somehow,” Jamil expresses. “So I want to arm young people with information – what I’ve learnt – that no-one ever told me.”
The full interview appears in the February 2019 edition of Red.
