Nigella Lawson has revealed she has had to tell TV bosses in the United States not to airbrush her stomach.
The 58-year-old has cultivated her entire career on the love of food, but it turns out that some people want her to look like she doesn’t eat.
Nigella called out the ‘hatred of fat’ while replying to a tweet from Jameela Jamil.
The chef and food writer wrote: ‘I’ve had to tell American tv stations not to airbrush my sticking out stomach.
‘The hatred of fat, and assumption that we’d all be grateful to be airbrushed thinner is pernicious.’
Nigella’s revelation was met with shock from fans, who seemed baffled as to why anyone would want to Photoshop the TV star.
The mother-of-two had responded to a post by Jameela, with The Good Place star calling out a journalist who wrote an article reading: ‘Women shouldn’t be told how to appear, whether it’s a glossy magazine persuading us to slim down or Jameela Jamil beseeching us to look uglier for the benefit of society.’
Jameela, 32, tweeted: ‘She thinks you’re “UGLY” just as you are. She also doesn’t understand that a huge part of why I hate photoshop is how it’s used as a tool of erasure of ethnicities, our skin colour, our features. This is embarrassing white privilege and deep misogyny.
‘Don’t ever use the word “ugly” about anyone ever again. I don’t care how “respectful” you are towards me. I’m interested in how respectful you are to women. You don’t understand ethnic erasure because women who look like you have been the standard of beauty forever.
‘For the last time, airbrushing is used as a tool for ethnicity erasure, colourism, ageism, fat-phobia, ableism, racism and sexism. It’s there to make you hate your real face and body. It made me hate my face, my body and my ethnicity for the longest time as a young woman.’
The actress has recently embarked on a social media campaign against airbrushing and celebrities who promote detox teas – calling out Cardi B and Iggy Azalea for flogging the weight loss aids on Instagram.
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