Jameela Jamil has brought the internet down with the New York Post article titled, “Bye-bye, booty: Heroin chic is back.”

The article highlighted how many curvy women have been resorting to losing weight and almost going back to the thin skinny size that was once celebrated.

The Vocal Jameela

Everyone knows how vocal and opinionated Jameela Jamil is. Be it celebrating the right of immigrants, and women of color, or the fact that bullying has scarred her. A very close-to-home story is how she battled body issues. In the past, Jameela was open to taking a jibe at Kim Kardashian who lost weight for her Met Gala look.

A Thin Body Obsession

The term “heroin chic,” which is associated with model Gia Carangi, who died of AIDS in 1986, is now used to describe the extremely thin body type.

Jamil took to her Instagram handle and bashed how bodies are marketed as trends. As if one year you can subscribe to a curvy body and the next year move on and want others to go all thin and flat-chested. Jamil said, “No, we tried this before in the 90s and millions of people developed eating disorders. I had one for like 20 years. We’re not doing this again, we’re not going back. Our bodies are not trends. Our body shapes are not trends. F*** off.”

“OUR BODIES ARE NOT TRENDS. SAY IT WITH ME. I’m starting Not Hungry Chic. Happy Chic. F*** off Chic? Anything but this,” she wrote in the caption.

The fact remains that there have been serious eating disorders in people to look a certain way. In a series of videos she explained and shared her views

“They want to look hungry, They’re not even interested in you looking like a naturally skinny or athletic person. They want you to look like you have dark circles under your eyes like you’re dying. Like you haven’t eaten a meal. You haven’t slept because you’re so full of drugs and anxiety trying to conform to their evil, submissive stereotype of is one form of what is glamorous and attractive to them. They want you to stay hungry because if you’re hungry, you’re too tired to stand up for your right to be treated like a human being who has the right to exist in anybody and live any life that you want. It’s all about control,” 

It is important to know that Jameela has carved her place in the industry on her merit and has been followed by Gen-Z for her not giving a s*** attitude.