Jameela Jamil has spoken out about her anorexia and how she “destroyed” her body by taking laxatives. The 38-year-old actor candidly opened up about her struggles with her eating disorder and body dysmorphia during a recent appearance on Kelly Ripa’s podcast, Let’s Talk Off Camera . While reflecting on her former eating habits, Jamil confessed that she also used to take “so many laxatives” and turned to any diet that she could find to lose weight.
“I’m amazed I even still have an a**hole, to be perfectly honest,” she quipped about the 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.” The Good Place star confessed that these medications not only hurt her physical health at the time, but they’ve also still impacted her body now. “I f***ed up my kidney, my liver, my digestive system, my heart,” she added.
“And most recently, I found out that I have destroyed my bone density.” Jamil acknowledged that although she “loves blaming other people” for her eating disorder, she knows that she cannot do that. She noted that while she could also “blame society” for how she treated herself during her anorexia, she still takes accountability.
She also hit back at the societal standards that have been placed on women, while addressing why she needs to be open about her own past. “And I’m so sorry to my body that I have j.
