Jameela Jamil apologised to Twitter followers for sometimes seeming “preachy” when she addresses “beauty standards.”
The Good Place star often uses social media to call out other celebrities for advertising diet products or promoting unrealistic images of beauty and turned her attention to Kim Kardashian’s new range of body make-up.
In a video shared on Twitter, the actress and presenter admitted that she often gets “riled up” about “gender inequality” as she feels so passionately about the subject and stressed that she would “never judge” fans for their choices.
“I was thinking about how I can sometimes, in my passion, not take into account how much tone is lost in written text, and how I understand how that must rub people up the wrong way sometimes,” she wrote in the caption for the post. “Working on it. Listening. Hearing you always.”
“So I just wanted to say sorry if I ever come across like a preachy w***** when I’m off on one of my rants about gender inequality, especially when it comes to beauty standards,” she said.
They are f****** ridiculous for women, and they are worse for women than they are for men and I sometimes get very riled up.”
Jamil went on to reveal that she receives “hundreds of letters a day from young people” who feel “too ugly because they can’t achieve complete perfection.”
She added: “Everything that I talk about negatively is stuff that almost always I’ve done myself, that I’ve made the mistake of putting my body though or my mind through that I’d like to just stop you from doing.
“It wasn’t meant to be me judging you, I never judge you, I wouldn’t have the right to, I’ve made more mistakes than any of you probably ever will.”
Earlier this week Jamil shared a tweet promoting Kardashian’s new body foundation, telling followers she would give the products a “hard pass.”
“God damn the work to take it all off before bed so it doesn’t destroy your sheets… I’d rather just make peace with my million stretch marks and eczema,” she wrote.
“Taking off my mascara is enough of a pain in the a***. Save money and time and give yourself a damn break.”
Kardashian did not address Jamil’s comments, but previously alluded to her criticism in a recent interview with the New York Times.
Referring to Jamil’s outrage at her promotion of diet products on Instagram, she told the paper that she “[is] going to get backlash for almost everything.”
