Jameela Jamil wants vengeance

She is so much more than Tahani from ‘The Good Place’. Jameela Jamil is taking down the diet industry one IG post at a time.

Jameela Jamil
Image by Marquita Wiggins / Photo by Sela Shiloni
Jameela Jamil
Image by Marquita Wiggins / Photo by Sela Shiloni

Jameela Jamil wants vengeance

She is so much more than Tahani from ‘The Good Place’. Jameela Jamil is taking down the diet industry one IG post at a time.

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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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