Jameela Jamil calls to arm against the new thin beauty standard

Jameela Jamil has candidly raised the alarm about the resurgence of Hollywood of "scarily thin."

After the 2026 BAFTAs, she took to her Instagram to denounce a particularly "specifically fragile type of thin" that she is terrified to see propagated again as the global beauty standard. 

The 40-year-old was very concerned with the "homogenization of sudden, rapid weight loss" within the industry. 

As a spectator of the red carpet, she was taken into a flashback to her childhood as she spotted women who looked like they could "snap."

This is not merely a matter of aesthetics to Jamil, it is a matter of power and it argues that there is a "deliberate political reasoning behind wanting women and girls to be frail, hungry, tired and easy to hurt."

The British actress and activist challenged women to renounce the "obedience" of the industry. 

She is in a world that is putting women rights on the verge, and she states that "now is not the time to be frail."

Rather, the Good Place star praised physical and mental toughness and wants her followers to "be difficult to steal, to beat, to break."

In her opinion, the way to solve this situation is by refusing to starve in a mass action, she says that "if we all collectively refused to starve ourselves, they would have to bend to us."

In cases of being blamed of "skinny shaming,", Jamil, who is a slim woman herself, explained that it is an emergency about life or death. 

The Misery Index host has mentioned that anorexia is the mental illness with the largest mortality rate.

The safety of impressionable people at home has the highest priority over the sentiments of offended individuals. The struggle against women, she decided, "requires fighters."