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🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Jameela Jamil is a Hollywood actress and activist. She is the founder of the I-weigh movement challenging society's definition of worth through weight and recently took home Vogue’s Global Disruptor award!
But what is Jameela thankful for today? Angela finds out…
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0:44.9 | you should try it there are a million things I'm thankful for today |
0:48.3 | but what is my guest thankful for to be able to be part of making |
0:53.0 | eating disorder culture and its toxicity |
0:55.6 | mainstream is something that I feel very relieved for. Yeah. It's been very freeing to now like |
1:00.2 | almost never have a conversation with a woman without her bringing out to me. Yeah. I'm Angela Scanlan |
1:05.0 | and welcome to Thanks a Million where we explore our guest's personal gratitude lists to find out |
1:10.4 | the things that have shaped |
1:11.6 | their lives. |
1:15.3 | Jamila Jamil has recently been named one of Vogue's Women of the Year taking home the |
1:19.8 | Global Disruptor Award. I can't think of a better title for this woman. I feel like she |
1:24.8 | should have that on her tombstone if she's, you know, that way inclined, which I'm not sure she is, to be fair. Many of you will know, Jamila has gone |
1:32.7 | from TV and radio presenter in the UK to Hollywood actress in the hit series The Good Place, as well |
1:38.0 | as becoming an activist, known for saying it how it is. She is the founder of the I-Way movement, |
1:43.7 | which challenges society's |
1:45.2 | definition of worth through weight, helping people all over the world to see themselves as |
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