Jameela Jamil has been revered and despised as the internet’s loudest
anti-fat-shaming activist, a social media Candyman out to get the diet industry. But
whatever the public opinion, she couldn't care less.
In this week’s episode of Art of Power, host Aarti Shahani sits down with the
premiere social media activist of a generation. We discuss her unexpected career
launch in the U.K. (1:40), a life-threatening discovery that shook her into upending
her life (2:41), her unfiltered social media battle with entertainment giants
(7:17), her decades-long battle with depression and suicide (18:20), the origin
story of her media company, I Weigh (30:09), how her Brown girl identity has shaped
her career trajectory (38:51) and her deadly phobia of bees (0:00).
“I will die fighting the f***ing diet industry,” she says.
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