Matt McGorry
Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week, actor and activist Matt McGorry joins Jameela to talk about how his eyes were opened to the world of activism and need through social media, learning how to be empowered to be a better ally, his journey from bodybuilder to self-acceptance, and leaving dieting behind.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jimmy Lidjamel. I hope this episode finds you well. |
| 0:04.3 | I have loved reading all of your messages. Thank you so much. I'm so happy that you enjoyed |
| 0:09.2 | Monroe's episode. She was just incredible, wasn't she? She's so inspiring and interesting and |
| 0:16.0 | honest and eloquent and that voice. Oh, I just love her and I'm so glad that so many of you do too |
| 0:22.8 | now. It also really warms my heart when I get so many messages from people telling me that they |
| 0:28.0 | are taking these episodes, especially Monroe's episode, back to their families to help their |
| 0:32.4 | families understand their experience if they too are transitioning or have transitioned or they're |
| 0:38.0 | sending them to their friends and family in order to just help them come on side to support, |
| 0:43.2 | trans and gender non-conforming people. And so I really thank Monroe for coming on to the |
| 0:48.4 | podcast and I thank you for sharing the word because that is how that is definitely a form of |
| 0:54.0 | activism and allyship just talking to your own so that the people who are marginalized don't have to. |
| 1:00.5 | If we take care of that for them, then we are doing our job as allies. This week we are having |
| 1:06.7 | a slight change of gear. I'm talking to a straight white male. He is an actor and an activist and |
| 1:14.0 | what I love so much about this episode is not just the man himself. I'm talking about Matt |
| 1:19.2 | McGory. You might know him from how to get away with Mordo or Orange is the new black. But |
| 1:25.0 | well I was so just thankful to him for was how much he opened up to me about his body image issues |
| 1:33.9 | and he's been considered a sex symbol for a large portion of his career and yet has struggled |
| 1:38.7 | for so long with eating disorders and now that he's bigger than he was before. He talks me through |
| 1:46.0 | how that has changed other people's attitudes towards him, how that's changed his own relationship |
| 1:50.4 | with his body, the history of body image obsession and how oppressive the system that created it is. |
| 1:58.2 | And I think that it's such an important issue because men don't feel like they are allowed to talk |
| 2:03.4 | about their body image issues. It's something that we always naturally associate more so with women |
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