Jameela Jamil Explains Why Airbrushing Should Be Illegal By Posting Examples

Christ it's genuinely depressing the amount of comments that are along the lines of 'stop being offended by everything'. They completely miss the point. It's not about offense or feminism. It's about how lying to people, feeding them s**t and telling them it's gold, is not right.

After such an awesome, insightful comment I can truly, in good faith, say.. Release the Kraken!!

100% agree. I remember I once asked people to give feedback on my face and then photo-shopped myself based on what they said and my own criticisms. I was horrified by the monster I created that looked like me but wasn't me. It was a depressing moment on my mentality. Photo-shopping is so poisonous it's disturbing.

Thank you. Seeing magazine covers like this absolutely destroyed my self esteem growing up, and made me compare myself to something that was completely unrealistic and unattainable. It's tough to undo the damage of this even today, and I hate it. Imagine yearning for an ideal that literally doesn't exist? Deep down I know better, but I still think about botox and stuff, getting worse and worse as I age.

Sure, but I have problems with having to listen to celebrities. These are not people I admire or that have any position of authority on most subjects, especially ones that affect the general population. It is the same when out-of-touch politicians make laws for the common people when they don't understand the common people. Do her words have credence when she actively engages in the patriarchal weaponry she decries, she's wearing tons of make up and has to do so to be presentable on air - surely there are parallels between that and photoshop, in addition to lighting and colour tones - it's all designed to make the person look a lot better than they really do. I agree that the cosmetic/magazine industry exploits the insecurities of women, but would she be complaining if she weren't an attractive young woman. Also, why is she under the assumption that people aren't already aware that whatever high end photos presented to us aren't enhanced?

I think it's a little bit different though. Magazines are something so so many men, women, and children see. It's advertising an unrealistic standard. By not airbrushing photos, it's normalizing imperfection and really just normal bodies. Plastic surgery is more of a personal thing, in my opinion. And people get it for so many different reasons

I agree. Plus people with the same "flaws" will be led to believe that those features are ugly and should be changed. Aging is a natural process; why must it be hidden?

I'm 61 so I know how your mom feels. I have grey hair and wrinkles. But I don't let it bother me. Keep telling your mom that she is beautiful and awesome. She made you didn't she?💕

If you bought a car on the basis it could go 200mph and then when you got it it only went 20 mph, and was actually a donkey dressed as a car, and genuinely not as advertised, you would probably try and get your money back. The company would probably be shut down. Yet companies and individuals can say to 12 year old girls who live on the internet 'If you buy this pill/ cream/ drink you will look like a super model' - whats the difference?

People don't know though. You'd be surprised. And as a kid, I didn't know it... I just thought I was a freak with pores and beautiful people didn't have them. It took me along time to understand what photoshop even was, even though even back in the 2000s things were being digitally enhanced. And even thought now I intellectually know that their wrinkles are being airbrushed away-- but I can't conceptualize what they look like 'normally' and have no reference to what they would look like, so after viewing the photshopped images, they become normalized to me. So I mean, I'm not stupid, I can grasp the concepts, but its still alarming to me my mind will normalize photoshop like this, and I'm somone that realizes they are altered. I can't even imagine people that don't realize the images are altered and how they must think. It's scary, and they should just not be digitally altered at all to erase actual features... *especially* since there's an obvious double standard.