Jameela Jamil has addressed a "damaging and disappointing" corset video posted by Kim Kardashian on her Instagram account earlier this week.
The actress and founder of 'radical inclusivity' movement I Weigh said she had received "over 1000 DMs" about the throwback video shared by the reality star.
She wrote: "I’ve received over 1000 DMs asking me to address this. The reason I didn’t jump on it immediately isn’t because I don’t think the post was damaging and disappointing. I do" she said, but added that her followers' decision to call it out themselves proved the movement she started was working.
Kim captioned the video, which showed her wearing a nude, waist-cinching corset in front of a mirror.
"Just found this in my phone from my special trip to London last year to meet w Mr. Pearl" she wrote, "I wore a corset like this for the Met Ball for my @manfredthierrymugler Camp look but the corset was misplaced that night and I want it so badly preserved for my archive that I flew to London to have another made."
Mr Pearl is a renowned corset-maker who has spent decades crafting designs for brands including Theirry Mugler, Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.
Kardashian wore one of his corsets under a waist-crushing Theirry Mugler look at the Met Gala last year. Afterwards she said of the look: "I have never felt pain like that in my life."
She also said it gave her "indentations on [her] back and stomach."
In a long caption, Jamil wrote: "The reason I didn’t jump on it immediately isn’t because I don’t think the post was damaging and disappointing. I do. It’s because the fact that you’re all messaging me about it, shows my work is done. I haven't been trying to cancel Kim K. I was always trying to arm YOU with the knowledge to recognize for YOURSELVES that this is a bull**t expectation of women, developed by the patriarchy."
She added: "Kim, like many of us, has had decades of body image issues and obsession. This has been HEAVILY perpetuated by how much the media scrutinized her and her sisters over their appearances.
"She isn’t actively trying to harm you. She’s just so harmed and deluded into thinking this is what SHE needs to look like to be special and beautiful and she’s spilling it out onto her following. Is this wrong? YES. But I’m not sure she realizes that she’s doing to others what her idols did to her, in making her think a tiny waist is the key to femininity and sex appeal."
Jamil has previously referred to the Kardashian sisters as "double agents of the patriarchy" but has also latterly resisted a 'cancel culture' approach.
"If we cancel people forever, when they have demonstrated immense change and remorse, we devalue progress. It isn’t going to get us anywhere," she said after an appearance on Russell Brand's podcast.
Among those to comment under Jamil's post was actress Natalie Portman, who left a string of heart emojis.
