Jameela Jamil

09/26/21 • 22 min

Jamil is best known for her body-positivity activism, having battled with anorexia as a teenage model, and a young woman navigating the fashion and tv worlds, her crusade against the misogynist and fat-shaming diet and detox industry has delivered some impressive results but she also regularly finds herself in the middle of online spats. None more genuinely confounding than in February 2020 when she faced Tracie Egan Morrissey – an ex-Jezebel editor who suggested that Jamil has, or is acting like she has, Munchausen syndrome, a disorder where people fake illnesses...

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This episode was written by Anton Ferrie.

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