Los Angeles, February 25 – British actress Jameela Jamil has expressed her displeasure at the sight of "scarily thin" women at the BAFTAs.
The actress has publicly criticized the women in question. The actress of "The Good Place" has shared her concerns about a certain "beauty standard" being pushed on everyone, and she is worried about the wider impact it could have on "impressionable people at home," according to 'Female First UK'.
She wrote on Instagram, "The women at the BAFTAs were scarily thin, in a way that reminded me of when I was a kid. Where everyone looks like they could snap. It's a specifically fragile type of thin. I resent this beauty standard being pushed on everyone, I resent the obedience of my industry, and I fear the impact on the impressionable people at home, thinking that this is the only way to be accepted.”
According to 'Female First UK', the 40-year-old star insisted that "now is not the time to be frail," instead urging women to be "strong" and "fight for our ever-diminishing rights and safety."
Jameela claimed that "there is a deliberate POLITICAL reason behind wanting women and girls to be frail, hungry, tired, and easy to hurt," and noted that the power to change is there.
She continued, "If we all collectively refused to starve ourselves, they would have to bend to us. But we rush to bend first, at any cost to our mental and physical health, and that of the next generation watching. Be whatever size you wish, but please try to be as strong as you physically can. Please be difficult to steal, to beat, to break. They want us easy to carry, to chase, to batter. The war on women requires fighters.”
She also urged people reading her post not to "waste time and energy" by accusing her of "skinny shaming," particularly as a "slim woman" herself.
