IN CONVERSATION: Jameela Jamil

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🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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IT’S A VERY HAPPY THURSDAY INDEED!!!!! Today on the show, we bring the incredible Jameela Jamil (a woman who probably doesn’t need an introduction, but of course, we’ll give her one anyway). Jameela is a British actress, former radio host, writer, and activist who rose to global fame through her role as Tahani Al-Jamil on The Good Place. She is also the brainchild behind the I Weigh movement - a force of more than one million people who band together to challenge dangerous diet culture on platforms like Instagram. In this chat, Jameela explains what it’s like going head-to-head with the Kardashians over laxative teas, as well as how she defines success. Thank you so much to today’s sponsor, Andalou Naturals. Head here to find out more. If you’d like to hear more from Jameela, which you no doubt 1000% do, check out the I Weigh movement on Instagram @i_weigh. And for her podcast, I Weigh with Jameela Jamil, head here. If this is your first time checking us out (hey, you), we are an independent media company that is dedicated to telling young women’s stories. The best way to support Shameless is to click ‘Subscribe’ on Apple Podcasts or ‘Follow’ on your Spotify app, and to tell your mates about us. We will reward such good behaviour with a puppy! Not everything in this paragraph is true! But wait! There’s more! Our back catalogue of In Conversation interviews. Follow Shameless on Instagram. Join our book club Facebook Group. Subscribe to the weekly Shameless recommendations newsletter. Pre-order our upcoming book about life in your twenties, The Space Between. We cherish your feedback on the show, and would bloody love to hear your wonderful voices. If you’d like to weigh in on an episode - whether it be a segment in a Monday episode, an In Conversation guest, or this month’s book club pick, we’d love for you to call our Shameless Hotline. You miiiiight just be featured on an episode. Thanks so much for lending us your ears for this episode! Have a great day! Stay hydrated! This episode was produced by Annabelle Lee for Shameless Media.

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0:00.0	I would love to be able to kill the inner bully in all women.
0:04.0	Obviously I would love to also be able to get rid of the outer bully which I'm currently working on,
0:10.0	but I think the truest end goal for this would be to not just destroy the external narrative for women, but to change our inner narrative and to really teach women that they have so much profound worth.
0:22.0	They exist so far beyond the numbers on a fucking scale or the numbers written on a measuring tape. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hello and welcome to Shameless.
0:53.8	Pop-Gog-Pog-Pog-Pahas for smart people who love dumb stuff.
0:57.7	Today we're joined by the incredible Jamilla Jamil,
1:01.0	a woman who probably doesn't need an introduction, but of course we'll give you one anyway.
1:05.8	Jamila is a British actress, former radio host, writer, an activist who rose to global fame
1:11.6	through her role as to Harney Al-Gimil on the good place, alongside co-stars Kristen Bell and Ted Danson.
1:17.4	She is also the brainchild behind the eyeway movement, a force of more than 1 million women who band together to challenge dangerous diet culture on platforms like Instagram.
1:27.0	Jamila is a seminal voice of our generation and using that voice for people who exist in the margins,
1:32.0	be that trans people people people with a disability
1:34.0	and young women and girls has made her one of the most adored celebrities in
1:37.9	recent history we were blown away not just that Jamula wanted to come on our
1:41.8	podcast but that she was so honest and thoughtful with her insights.
1:45.4	We cannot tell you how much we relished this opportunity to chat together and hope you enjoy the next
1:50.7	45 minutes as much as we did. Here's Jamilla Jamil.
1:57.3	Jamil. Welcome to Shameless in conversation. This is a huge pinch me moment for Zara and I.
2:03.3	Thank you for having me.
2:04.4	I'm thrilled to be here.
2:05.8	We are very excited and we want to start where we're starting at the moment with everyone
2:09.6	because we're in the middle of pandemic and a lot is going on and the world is very weird but we saw you
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