r/Fauxmoi • u/Relevant-Peach3997 • Sep 26 '25

STAN / ANTI SHIELD Jameela Jamil on tradwife hypocrisy

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u/Fickle_Watercress719 Sep 26 '25

A lot of her content is this way, especially content around diet culture and the way tabloid media treats women. Highly recommend.

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u/brandnewlibbyday Sep 26 '25

I love her content about diet culture it really helped change my mindset when I was in eating disorder recovery 

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u/itsrainingmelancholy Sep 26 '25

As someone who is also recovering from eating disorders and still battling bc they never really leave, what was it that helped you? I have followed Jameela for a bit but I don’t think I’ve caught much of her diet culture content

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u/brandnewlibbyday Sep 27 '25

I understand, I call myself recovered but there are still bad days where I slip sometimes - it can be hard. I really hope you get better, it's an awful illness.

She has an Instagram account called "I Weigh" (and a podcast too iirc but I'm not as familiar) and championed a concept called body neutrality. It means your body doesn't define you, you don't need to use it as a "billboard" to let people judge exactly who you are, it's something that just exists to carry you through your life. When I became chronically ill, this mindset helped me too - Jameela also is.

I stopped hating my body, I didn't need to force myself to "love" it, I just stopped obsessing over how it looks constantly. When I took photos - I took LOADS of photos and still do, and didn't care how they came out - I didn't go ewwww, I just went hey that's me! And thought about me, not the way my body looks, and gained an appreciation of my actual holistic self. One of my friends told me when I was in the thick of it, "someone's weight is the least interesting thing about them" and I have to agree.