Search
2 interviews · 11 quotes
Conversations
My interview with Jameela Jamil, actress, writer, host and activist, about the immense damage done by media and brand portrayals of women- and how she's fighting back through the launch of @i_weigh…
What 207 conversations with the world's leading thinkers reveal about the fight for justice
From the archive
We're up against corporate, almost criminal behaviour. We are up against corporations who are manipulating young, vulnerable people.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
I've described celebrities as being 'double agents of the patriarchy,' and whilst things are getting better- and language is changing, we are still not always calling out those who fat shame or age shame women.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
The most important thing to realise is this; we control the market, the market does not control us.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
The happier I become with myself, the less I buy… the better my bank account becomes, because I'm not buying nonsense that I never needed.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
It's taken for me to get into my 30s to realise I am more than the media told me I was- I have more to say, so do my friends. We are intelligent, we are strong, we are multi-faceted, we are vulgar and we are funny. It is because we haven't been given the opportunity to exercise these facets of ourselves in the media that we've started to doubt our ability.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
Brands work on the principle that if you break down people's confidence, they will be much more vulnerable to advertising, and much more likely to go out and consume… much more likely to buy things to fix problems they didn't even know they had if it weren't for brands breaking their confidence in the first place.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
It's taken for me to get into my 30s to realise I am more than the media told me I was- I have more to say, so do my friends. We are intelligent, we are strong, we are multi-faceted, we are vulgar and we are funny.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
There's a deliberate strategy and direct correlation between how much we're being attacked regarding our looks, and how much the beauty industry and cosmetic surgery industry are booking. These are companies growing into the tens of billions in revenue across countries and continents.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
I've described celebrities as being 'double agents of the patriarchy,' and whilst things are getting better- and language is changing, we are still not always calling out those who fat shame or age shame women.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
To fight back, you have to first identify the enemy and right now, the enemies are corporations and the culture of consumerism. Brands work on the principle that if you break down people's confidence, they will be much more vulnerable to advertising, and much more likely to go out and consume.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
It's disappointing to see the amount of people who choose to profit from the pain and self-consciousness of teenage girls without even thinking about it. If you are motivated to constantly talk about your image, your weight and to guide people through ridiculously unhealthy juice fasts- then you are already poison; you've drunk the kool-aid.
— Jameela JamilActress & Mental Health Advocate; Host of "The Good Place
More conversations
