The Good Place actress, Jameela Jamil is currently in the middle of a superheated Twitter feud with model, Sara Sampaio, about body-shaming and it needs to be discussed.
The Good Place actress, Jameela Jamil is currently in the middle of a superheated Twitter feud with model, Sara Sampaio, about body-shaming and it needs to be discussed.
IRL, Jameela is fighting the good fight!
She's an outspoken activist, waging war on society's unrealistic beauty standards.
The problem is, she called typical fashion models "long-starved terrified teenagers," which didn't exactly sit well with everybody.
"How about celebrating someone without bringing other people down?," she tweeted.
"From someone that is always preaching for body positivity this just screams hypocrisy."
But also highlighted that there are, in fact, plenty of "long-starved terrified teenager" models out there.
"You didn’t say all models, sure, but you still chose to attack girls just so you can celebrate others," she wrote.
"It’s a huge problem is society as a whole. And when you talk like you know for sure majority of."
And so, the battled raged on.
"Sara, respectfully, I don’t think this is the hill to die on. This industry is unlike other industries in that it makes professionals out of children, and informs culture and society, and is a standard set for young people everywhere."
"This idea that you should just be cute and not call out what is wrong Incase it offends people... is why change doesn’t happen faster," she continued.
She then made this absolute mic-dropped of a tweet, pointing out that she used to be a model, herself.
"The point of my tweet was never this one! I didn’t think it was necessary to add those Diminishing words when you were so amazingly celebrating something so awesome."
Forget who's right and who's wrong — I would have been exhausted after the first two tweets.
This is what stubbornness really looks like, folks! But kudos to both of them for firmly standing by what they believe in.
She encouraged her to find a better cause to fight for.
She pointed out that Sara misinterpreted her original tweet in the first place. Jameela wasn't dragging the kids, she was dragging the toxic effects the fashion industry has on young girls.