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Jameela Jamil is getting candid about weight loss trends while opening up about her recovery from an eating disorder.
“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,” Jamil, 38, wrote via Instagram on Friday, December 27. “Especially for those of us who have fought off eating disorders. Who are they really doing it for?”
Jamil said she plans on “sitting out this cycle.” She continued, “Curves will come back. They always do. Then they will go away again. Then come back. I’m not playing with my brain, my heart, my bone density, or my metabolism for a trend. You can’t be left behind in a LOOP. WHAT ARE WE TEACHING THE KIDS?!”
Alongside the message, The Good Place alum shared a photo of herself giving a soft smile at the camera as she held an object in her hand.
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“Bloody hell. Height of my anorexia pretending to eat a chocolate,” Jamil wrote over the photo. “Pretending to be happy. Pretending not to be on the verge of fainting.”
In the next image, Jamil looked off in the distance as she smiled and held her hair back while rocking a black one-piece swimsuit and a pair of sunglasses. In the last slide, Jamil danced in the water while eating a slice of pizza.
“May I have the strength through this era of Ozempic heroin chic, in my industry to keep up this good work I did on my brain throughout 2025,” she wrote over the video. “I would rather leave this industry than get dragged back.”
Through the years, Jamil has been critical on weight loss trends and products. In 2023, she got candid about her thoughts on people allegedly using Ozempic for weight loss reasons.
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“I have said what I have said about the potential harm of people using the diabetes medication for weight loss only. I fear for everyone in the next few years,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “Rich people are buying this stuff off prescription for upwards of 1000 dollars. Actual diabetics are seeing shortages. It’s a now mainstream craze in Hollywood.”
“HOPE this doesn’t end the same way we were told opioids were safe. There is little to no discussion of the side effects in any advertising online,” she continued. “I’m deeply concerned but I can’t change any of your minds because fat phobia has our generation in a chokehold.”
While reflecting on her journey, Jamil shared in a 2019 episode of Emerging Hollywood that she began struggling with her body at a young age.
“I felt embarrassed about having a little 7-year-old tummy,” she explained. “By the time I was about 11 or 12, I had very, very bad body shame because I wanted to look like all of the anorexic models in my magazines, and I was fully anorexic by the time I was about 13.”
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After becoming “completely physically disabled” in a car accident at age 17, Jamil said she had an epiphany. “This body was doing so much for me all along and I was just starving it and actively, actively hurting it and trying to kill it all the time,” she said.
While the incident marked a turning point for Jamil, the actress said she struggled with her body for years after. She shared, “I still had an anorexic mentality that went on until I was maybe about 28, 29 years old.”
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