Jameela Jamil Asks 'What Are We Teaching the Kids' With Ozempic

The English actress called use of the medication "hard to watch" in a recent Instagram post.

December 28, 2024

Jameela Jamila refuses to be a proponent for the use of Ozempic.

In an Instagram post on Friday (Dec. 27), the English actress blasted the popularity of Ozempic in celebrity culture, noting her personal overcoming of an eating disorder. The prescription injectable medication, traditionally used to treat type 2 diabetes, also helps with weight loss by reducing appetite.

In the Instagram carousel, Jamil shared an old image from the "height" of having anorexia, where she was "pretending to eat a chocolate" and "pretending to be happy." The latter slides showed a present-day Jamil with a healthier body image and dancing in the sea while happily eating.

"May I have the strength through this era of Ozempic heroin chic, in my industry to keep up this good work I did on my brain throughout 2025," she wrote over the video. "I would rather leave this industry than get dragged back."

"The amount of people in my industry just taking it to go from slim to super skinny, to finally achieve the obedient waif physique to fit the obedient sample sizes.... has been hard to watch," the She-Hulk: Attorney At Law star captioned the post.

"Especially for those of us who have fought off eating disorders. Who are they really doing it for?"

The 38-year-old plans on "sitting out this cycle," noting that "curves will come back." "They always do. Then they will go away again. Then come back," she continued. "I'm not playing with my brain, my heart, my bone density, or my metabolism for a trend. You can't be left behind in a LOOP."

She concluded, "WHAT ARE WE TEACHING THE KIDS?!"

In May, Jamil appeared on Kelly Ripa's Let's Talk Off Camera podcast where she discussed the long-term impact of anorexia, which she battled from 19 to 30 years old.

"Thinness is a form of assimilation, especially for women," she said, per BBC.

She continued, "I had never planned on being in the showbusiness industry and I can't think of a worse industry for me to have entered with a history of eating disorders, given that to assimilate you're supposed to be thin unless you want your identity to be the fact that you stand out for not being thin and that is the only thing we talk about."