Could there be aReese Witherspoonappearance onJameela Jamil’s“I Weigh” series in our future?TheBig Little Liesstar, 43, shared a glowing review of Jamil’s work empowering women to love their bodies after listeningto her recent interview with singer Lizzo.“I stumbled upon this interview that Jameela Jamil did with Lizzo, that singer who’s so amazing, and guys. This conversation was so great and inspiring about body positivity and I just thought I would share it with you so you could check it out!” Witherspoon raved on Instagram, which Jamil’s I Weigh accountthen reposted.Witherspoon said that she’s a big fan of Jamil, 33.“Any time Jameela Jamil talks about body positivity I just find myself going, ‘Yes. Yes. That’s right,’ ” the mom of three said.Jamil created theI Weigh Instagram accountin Feb. 2018after seeing “toxic” weight shaming on social media. She decided to flip the term and ask her followers to instead send the things that add up to their self-worth, like being a good friend and loving to bake, and it has since evolved into in-depth conversations about body image with celebrities like Lizzo and Sam Smith.TheGood Placestar also made headlinesfor her posts calling outtheKardashiansandCardi Bfor selling products that claim to help people lose weight,like Flat Tummy Teaandappetite-suppressing lollipops. And in February,she launched a petitionasking social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter from allowing celebrities to hawk these products. Two months later, she’s less than 60,000 signatures away from her goal of 300,000.Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic; Gary Gershoff/WireImageJamil is so well-known for her anti-diet product posts that people have started asking her to call celebrities out — as they did Wednesday afterKourtney Kardashian’s exScott Disick advertised for a weight loss drink.Jamil has saidshe’s “not nervous to call anyone out.”“I think people are just scared and greedy,”she told PEOPLE on Saturday. “I think girls, in particular, are scared because we’re always told to not be unlikable, and not to be difficult, and to be perfect. I would like to, hopefully, be a force of change in that [and] show people that sometimes you have to be scary, and you have to be intimidating, and you have to be bold, and you have to be unlikable in order to protect yourself and to protect other people.”RELATED VIDEO: Jameela Jamil Applauds Khloé Kardashian for Deleting Diet Shake Instagram Ad: ‘There Is Hope’Jamil said she’s speaking out to help young girls.“All I’m trying to do is protect young people because they are so easily influenced,” she said. “Celebrity has taken over from religion. Celebrities are the new deities, therefore we have too much power and too much influence. It has to be handled more responsibly than it is currently.”
Could there be aReese Witherspoonappearance onJameela Jamil’s“I Weigh” series in our future?
TheBig Little Liesstar, 43, shared a glowing review of Jamil’s work empowering women to love their bodies after listeningto her recent interview with singer Lizzo.
“I stumbled upon this interview that Jameela Jamil did with Lizzo, that singer who’s so amazing, and guys. This conversation was so great and inspiring about body positivity and I just thought I would share it with you so you could check it out!” Witherspoon raved on Instagram, which Jamil’s I Weigh accountthen reposted.
Witherspoon said that she’s a big fan of Jamil, 33.
“Any time Jameela Jamil talks about body positivity I just find myself going, ‘Yes. Yes. That’s right,’ ” the mom of three said.
Jamil created theI Weigh Instagram accountin Feb. 2018after seeing “toxic” weight shaming on social media. She decided to flip the term and ask her followers to instead send the things that add up to their self-worth, like being a good friend and loving to bake, and it has since evolved into in-depth conversations about body image with celebrities like Lizzo and Sam Smith.
TheGood Placestar also made headlinesfor her posts calling outtheKardashiansandCardi Bfor selling products that claim to help people lose weight,like Flat Tummy Teaandappetite-suppressing lollipops. And in February,she launched a petitionasking social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter from allowing celebrities to hawk these products. Two months later, she’s less than 60,000 signatures away from her goal of 300,000.
Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic; Gary Gershoff/WireImage
Jamil is so well-known for her anti-diet product posts that people have started asking her to call celebrities out — as they did Wednesday afterKourtney Kardashian’s exScott Disick advertised for a weight loss drink.Jamil has saidshe’s “not nervous to call anyone out.”
“I think people are just scared and greedy,”she told PEOPLE on Saturday. “I think girls, in particular, are scared because we’re always told to not be unlikable, and not to be difficult, and to be perfect. I would like to, hopefully, be a force of change in that [and] show people that sometimes you have to be scary, and you have to be intimidating, and you have to be bold, and you have to be unlikable in order to protect yourself and to protect other people.”
RELATED VIDEO: Jameela Jamil Applauds Khloé Kardashian for Deleting Diet Shake Instagram Ad: ‘There Is Hope’
Jamil said she’s speaking out to help young girls.
“All I’m trying to do is protect young people because they are so easily influenced,” she said. “Celebrity has taken over from religion. Celebrities are the new deities, therefore we have too much power and too much influence. It has to be handled more responsibly than it is currently.”
source: people.com
