Jameela Jamil reveals how she “destroyed” her body with laxatives amid anorexia struggles

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Good Place actress spoke out about her eating disorder and body dysmorphia during a recent appearance on Kelly Ripa’s podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera.“I’m amazed I even still have an asshole, to be perfectly honest,” she quipped about tacking laxatives. “It’s a real trooper.

It’s a survivor. I took any pill or drink or diet that Oprah recommended. I did it. I took it. You know, any very low-calorie supermodel diet.”Jamil went on to say that these medications not only damaged her physical health at the time, but still have an impact on her body today.“I fucked up my kidney, my liver, my digestive system, my heart,” she said. “And most recently, I found out that I have destroyed my bone density.”The actress acknowledged that although she “loves blaming other people” and “society” for her eating disorder, she still takes accountability for how she has treated herself during her anorexia.“And I’m so sorry to my body that I have jeopardised my future so severely for a beauty standard and to try to fit in with other people,” she continued. “And that’s why I’m so annoying, publicly, about eating disorders and diets.

Because there’s so much talk about the dangers of being in a bigger body and there’s no talk almost about the dangers of not eating enough, only eating too much.”Emphasising the importance of people being vocal about their health, and specifically eating disorders, she continued: “We have no idea the way that people’s fertility is fucked, the way their long-term health is fucked.

We just don’t talk about it and it’s an inconvenient truth that the diet industry kind of squashes.”She concluded: “So I want to be someone who reminds people to eat.