Sara Sampaio Calls Out Jameela Jamil for Perpetuating a Stereotype About Models
Victoria’s Secret angel Sara Sampaio is calling out The Good Place actress Jameela Jamil for a comment that she made about models.
Jameela retweeted a video from the Colors of Africa fashion show, in which women did a Nigerian dance while walking down the runway. She wrote, “Oh my god đđđ this looks like the most fun, and not a long-starved terrified teenager in sight. Beautiful.”
Sara felt that Jameela was perpetuating a stereotype about models, in which people assume that all of them starve themselves. She pointed out that it’s possible to celebrate “someone without bringing other people down.”
Jameela then responded saying “there is a *vast* majority issue with young girls starving themselves, and using drugs and cocaine to control their weight, to meet the very small sample sizes.”
Read all of the tweets from Sara Sampaio and Jameela Jamil in the thread below.
How about celebrating someone without bringing other people down? Calling runway models âlong-starved terrified teenagerâ is extremely offensive. From someone that is always preaching for body positivity this just screams hypocrisy. https://t.co/JOBtY0yrui
— Sara Sampaio (@SaraSampaio) October 16, 2019
Click inside to read the rest of the Twitter exchange…
I didnât say all models in my tweet so try to calm down. But I will say there is a *vast* majority issue with young girls starving themselves, and using drugs and cocaine to control their weight, to meet the very small sample sizes. If you donât see that, then you are in a bubble https://t.co/K3DkuRmIG7
— Jameela Jamil đ (@jameelajamil) October 16, 2019
I also donât preach âbody positivity.â I talk about moving away from all talk of body, in order to combat our current pervasive issue of eating disorder culture, which is in NO small way perpetuated by the extreme thinness demanded of girls by the high fashion powers that be.
— Jameela Jamil đ (@jameelajamil) October 16, 2019
SO TRUE. So many girls I know had their MOUTHS WIRED SHUT to be able to maintain liquid diets to stay thin enough for runway. I also spoke to a very thin top model recently, who told me at 27, and a very low weight( size 2-4), that she was deemed too old and fat for catwalk. https://t.co/nsHuf8FbrC
— Jameela Jamil đ (@jameelajamil) October 16, 2019
You didnât say all models, sure, but you still chose to attack girls just so you can celebrate others. Eating disorders, drugs and cocaine use arenât a exclusive problem of models, itâs a huge problem is society as a whole. And when you talk like you know for sure majority of https://t.co/4hAIf379WP
— Sara Sampaio (@SaraSampaio) October 16, 2019
Have eating disorders and drug problems, when thatâs not the case. And about modeling I can for sure talk with more certainty than you. Sure that happens but itâs for sure not a vast majority. The point of my tweet though, wasnât that one! And you know!
— Sara Sampaio (@SaraSampaio) October 16, 2019
Itâs very simple to celebrate someone without having do drag other people. And make general negative assumptions about a whole group of people. most of these girls are teenagers! And they donât deserved to be constantly put in a negative box like you just did.
— Sara Sampaio (@SaraSampaio) October 16, 2019
I can say for a fact, while some girls unfortunately might do drugs the majority actually doesnât!
— Sara Sampaio (@SaraSampaio) October 16, 2019
All I point out was that she didnât need to bring other people down to celebrate others! https://t.co/n1itJ0ueJR
— Sara Sampaio (@SaraSampaio) October 16, 2019
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