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Jameela Jamil has said she refuses to turn her experience of having deepfake pornography made of her ‘into a thing that I fear’.
The actress, 38, discovered last year fake pornographic videos of her face on someone else’s body had been made with artificial intelligence.
However, the Good Place star refuses to let the images hurt her as she believes that’s what the men who made them want.
Jameela discovered she had been deepfaked when a TV channel contacted her and let her know as they were doing a documentary on the subject.
Speaking to Glamour UK, she said: ‘It [the video] is fake. And I find it so deeply cringe of men to do this. I refuse to turn it into a thing that I fear, which is what they want. The men who are making these videos are getting off on the fact we’re upset.
Jameela Jamil has said she refuses to turn her experience of having deepfake pornography made of her ‘into a thing that I fear’
The actress, 38, discovered last year fake pornographic videos of her face on someone else’s body had been made with artificial intelligence
‘It’s so sad that they’re in their basement taking videos of my face and putting it on someone else’s t**s and vagina.
‘You get one life and there’s all these things you could do instead, yet they choose to sit in the dark doing this. That’s not a shame on me. The shame’s on them.’
Jameela said something needs to be done to help the people who make deepfake images and she believes ‘the way we are handling boys and men’ in society is not working.
It comes after the star revealed her ‘body is broken forever’ by societal beauty standards as she was named Glamour’s Game Changing Voice Of The Year.
Jameela last won an award at the ceremony in 2013, when she was named Radio Personality of the Year, and reminisced about how it was an exciting time for women in terms of body positivity.
However she expressed her sadness at the return of ‘heroin chic’ as she gave an impassioned speech on how women are once again ‘suffering and risking our lives’ in the pursuit of the ‘same Snapchat face’.
Urging women and girls to be kinder to themselves, she said: ‘I beg of you, as I stand here with a body broken forever because of what I put it through for our society’s beauty standards… to not sell your old lady self short.’
Jameela began her speech by speaking about the optimism of the 2010s, before sharing her concern that there had been a back track.
However, the Good Place star refuses to let the images hurt her as she believes that’s what the men who made them want
It comes after the star revealed her ‘body is broken forever’ by societal beauty standards as she was named Glamour’s Game Changing Voice Of The Year
The Good Place star said: ‘Boys are encouraged to build their bodies, and build their futures and legacies.
‘While women and girls are starving, injecting and hurting – and sometimes literally dying – for the fastest possible route to the ever-changing, fickle beauty standard.’
‘Why is women’s discomfort and harm still so hyper normalised?’ the actress asked.
Jameela went on to issue a plea to all women and girls not to bow to misogyny and instead make decision that strengthen – not hurt – them.
In her powerful speech Jameela said: ‘The patriarchy seeks to distract, destroy and erase [women] by the time we get older because we become harder to control. Because we become too valuable.
‘And we must not find out, otherwise we might start spending more of our energy on things that could even the playing field in this world.’
Continuing with a smirk, she added: ‘We might start getting proper sleep. We might eat enough nutrients.
‘We might become too happy in ourselves and genuinely confident in who we are. Can you imagine what we could do?’
