Jameela Jamil Slams BAFTA’s Scarily Thin Standards

has branded the female attendees 'scarily thin' in an impassioned rant.

The actress and activist, 40, is known for her campaigns criticising rigid beauty standards for women and her fight against the patriarchy. 

Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, Jameela voiced her thoughts on the women in attendance Sunday's BAFTA Awards - after fans speculated over actress 's slimmer figure.

Jameela shared her concern over the size of the female attendees as she said: 'I resent this beauty standard being pushed on everyone.'

She went on to say that it is 'not the time to be frail' and 'women need to be strong' to combat the erosion of in the current climate. 

'The women at the Baftas were scarily thin... it's a specifically fragile type of thin,' Jameela wrote. 

'I resent this beauty standard being pushed on everyone, I resent the obedience of my industry, and fear the impact on impressionable people at home thinking that this is the only way to be accepted.'

She added: 'This is not the time to be frail. Women need to be strong, to fight back for our ever diminishing rights and safety. 

'There is a deliberate POLITICAL reason behind wanting women and girls to be frail, hungry tired and easy to hurt.'

In the caption, Jameela went on to urge her fellow women to 'eat their protein and carbs' and 'be difficult to break'.

'If we all collectively refused to starve ourselves, they would have to bend to us,' she wrote. 

'But we *rush* to bend first, at any cost to our mental and physical health, and that of the next generation watching. Be whatever size you wish but please try to be as strong as you physically can. Please be difficult to steal, to beat, to break. 

'They want us easy to carry, to chase, to batter. The war on women requires fighters. The ones coming to protect us, we now know statistically, will sadly not be men.'

Jameela's comments come after Emma Stone showed off a noticeably slimmer appearance at the ceremony, sparking online speculation about her .

The 37-year-old, who was up for a Leading Actress gong for her performance in Bugonia, opted for a daring look in a form-fitting garment featuring an elegant train and a crossed halter-neck. 

She kept her accessories to a minimum, completing her ensemble with a simple diamond bracelet and earrings. 

While she was widely complimented over her sleek look, some fans expressed concern over her seemingly smaller figure. 

'Good lord what happened to Emma Stone? She's so skinny now. What's up with everyone losing SO much weight?!'; they wrote.

'She's much thinner,'; 'She was always thin, now she has lost so much weight.'

But other fans leapt to the actress's defense, arguing she has always been thin.

'Whoever is thin shaming Emma Stone in those recent pics… shame on you,'; 'That's been her body for years.' 

In 2014, the actress slammed people who said she was too thin, saying genetics and stress were why she had struggled to gain weight.

'It can be really challenging in today's world for anyone, especially girls and women, to feel good about their bodies,' Stone, who was 25 at the time, told Seventeen magazine. 

'No matter how things look from the outside, we can all be super critical of ourselves and of our image in the mirror.

'I've seen articles or comments that have addressed my weight of "caving to pressure to be thin." Keeping weight on is a struggle for me, especially when I'm under stress and especially as I've gotten older. 

'That's the way my genes have decided to go and things will change as time goes on, as does everything. So when completely untrue statements are made about me or my health, of course, a part of me wants to defend.'