Despite actively calling out media antics, Jameela Jamil has once again made headlines for her sex life, making you wonder, will it ever end?
British actress, radio host, writer, and activist (amongst other things), Jameela Jamil, is frequently in the headlines. Most often it’s because of something she’s said or done (the outspoken Jamil often finds herself at the height of controversy). Strangely too, people really want to know how tall she is – searches for ‘Jameela Jamil height’ spike every time she’s in the media like clockwork.
Most recently, it was about “a sex joke that three past lovers had made about her”. It’s exactly the kind of content the activist frequently calls out, and yet, the headlines to continue to come.
The article in question was published by news.com.au, and the comments were taken from an interview with Conan O’Brien on his podcast, Needs a Friend. In the interview, Jamil described how her interactions with three different sexual partners had coincidentally resulted in the same comment.
“Sex in itself is so stupid. The thrusting? What are we doing? I’m not amazing in bed. But I’ve got big boobs so I don’t have to be,” Jamil described.
“Some of the reviews I’ve had… I’ve been told by three separate men that making love to me – and I think they meant this as a compliment – was like having sex with a memory foam mattress.”
“I shift to any shape. It’s not that I’m bendy, it’s that I don’t have muscles anywhere but my heart. I’m like a human marshmallow with nipples.”
Elsewhere, the article brought up Jamil’s “comedy in the bedroom” – allegedly she has a habit of cracking jokes with partner James Blake (one example she recounts was of her saying “unexpected item in the bagging area” after a sex fail) – which, apparently, Blake isn’t too impressed with.
“Mostly if I can just stay silent that’s enough because it’s my trying to insert comedy in the bedroom that goes down badly.”
Honestly, I appreciate a bit of comedy in the bedroom.
It was only last week that Jamil called out the Daily Mail for cherry-picking information for a story about her.
Recently, she also pointed out a pattern of her and other women’s depiction in the media, in which she claims sites “build her up, hyperbolize her, overexpose her to make people sick of her face, and then the scene is set for the inevitable kick off the pedastal [sic] THEY put her on, which they did SPECIFICALLY to have an entertaining height to drop her from.”
Far from her sex life being the most interesting thing about her, Jamil uses her platform for good: to spark thought-provoking conversations about a range of contemporary issues.
She is the founder of I Weigh, an Instagram-account-come-platform, which seeks to explore social issues including mental health, climate change, the representation of marginalised groups, and body positivity. Last month, on World Suicide Prevention Day, she also spoke out about her suicide attempt seven years ago, as a means to raise awareness.
We can only hope that one day soon a woman’s sex life isn’t so newsworthy.
