CB has told me before that I have a weird gift for getting a bad vibe from a celebrity and then months or years later, everybody finds out that the celebrity is a total a–hole or whatever. I mean, I’ve been wrong about some people too, but yeah… sometimes I just really have a gut-level dislike for a person for no apparent reason and then it comes out later that they’re terrible. I bring this up because Jameela Jamil always gave me a “problematic thirsty a–hole” vibe, even when people were applauding her for, like, screaming at the Kardashians and acting like she’s the only person to ever talk about body positivity. I’m not saying everything Jameela has ever done or said has been crap, but lord, she is A LOT. That being said, I wasn’t expecting this.
Producer/writer Tracie Morrissey decided to do a few hours of research about Jameela and all of the sh-t she’s claimed about herself and her various ailments over the years. Morrissey put it together in an Instagram Highlight, which I cannot embed but you can watch here. The sheer volume of claims that Jameela has made about her own health is staggering. What’s more is that Jameela regularly contradicts or changes her stories, and other celebrities say that events did not happen as she claimed. Morrissey basically says it’s chronic misrepresentation, and says this is indicative of Munchausen Syndrome, where someone is making themselves sick for attention. Here are some of the highlights from Morrissey’s Instagram story:
She claimed she had a broken nose, broken tooth and broken elbow from an injury sustained on set but was filmed looking completely normal afterwards with no cast or sling. She later claimed, in another interview, that she also broke three ribs in that incident. She did not include that detail in earlier versions.
She claimed she was confined in bed for two years at 17 and needed a walker after trying to avoid a bee and being hit by a car. She later changed that to one year and a wheelchair.
She also claimed to have been chased by a swarm of bees on season one of the Good Place and been hit by a car.
She told yet another story of how a huge swarm of killer bees chased her when she was interviewing Mark Ronson. He said that there were one or two bees on a fruit plate and they simply walked inside.
She’s claimed in different interviews that she was a model, an intern, or a model scout. Then she’s said she was “never a model.” She’s contradicted herself like this both in interviews and on twitter.
She claimed she was born allergic to shellfish and peanuts, but she’s also posted IG stories where she’s eating peanut butter filled pretzels.
She’s claimed to have had multiple concussions and various other injuries and ailments.
[CB’s interpretation of Tracie Morrissey’s IG stories]
People continued to pick up on Morrissey’s research and…
i’ve fallen down a “jameela jamil has munchausen’s” rabbit hole and OH? MY?? GOD??? pic.twitter.com/G2ym8kveJG
— JOE (@JXEKER) February 11, 2020
And so now we’re having a conversation about women being gaslighted about their own injuries or illnesses and sure, that’s a good conversation to have and an important conversation. There is a legitimate, documented issue of women not being believed by doctors and medical professionals when they speak about their health. But is that what’s happening here? Jameela defended herself:
First I’m lying about my sexuality, now I’m now being accused of munchausens? By an unhinged idiot who didn’t even realize in all her “research” that my car accident injury stories are “different” because they were about TWO SEPARATE CAR ACCIDENTS 13 years apart? You can keep it. pic.twitter.com/KPuHbiyyhT
— Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) February 12, 2020
Not afraid of you or your dumb internet conspiracy theories. Keep them coming. You just add to my relevance. I’m gonna keep helping people with eating disorders, and changing laws and global policies to protect kids and their mental health and there’s NOTHING you can do about it. pic.twitter.com/PttrCvifew
— Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) February 12, 2020
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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