The GLAMOUR Ladies of the 12 months Awards 2024, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy Ring, are in full swing and, as soon as once more, we’re packed to the rafters with trailblazing, record-breaking, down proper exceptional ladies.
And none extra so than the winner of our Gamechanging Voice Award, Jameela Jamil. One of the crucial outspoken and prolific on-line critics of her era, Jameela makes use of her platform to name out all the things from white privilege in politics to the rise of weight-loss medicine.
So it is no marvel Jameela used her acceptance speech to attract everybody’s consideration to among the most pertinent points affecting ladies and ladies.
“I used to be 27 the final time I gained one among these,” Jameela mentioned. “I bear in mind what an thrilling time that was for girls. We had been on the precipice of #MeToo, the physique positivity motion, age acceptance and we had been embracing folks due to what made them totally different; not regardless of it.
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Cally Jane Beech: ‘Picture-based abuse is a pandemic in opposition to ladies and ladies’
Campaigner and influencer Cally Jane Beech is being honoured as GLAMOUR’S Activist of the 12 months at our annual Ladies of the 12 months Awards for courageously taking a stand in opposition to digitally altered, sexually express ‘deepfakes’ of girls and ladies. Right here, she speaks to GLAMOUR about her expertise of deepfake abuse, how motherhood influences her activism, and why she’s calling on the federal government to guard all survivors of image-based abuse.
“11 years later,” she continued, “and one thing bizarre is occurring and we have to speak about it. How is heroin stylish on its method again? 20-somethings and teenagers are destroying their pores and skin obstacles and saying issues like ‘retinol’ and ‘Botox’. And it appears like we’re all morphing, type of, into the identical Snapchat face. Identical eyes, lips, cheekbones and noses. Yesterday, I watched a literal 8-year-old on TikTok take folks by means of her evening time pores and skin routine – and it was reported final yr, that ladies as younger as 4 are actually worrying about their weight. FOUR. I wish to be clear, I don’t disapprove of any alternative anybody desires to make with their face or physique. Look nonetheless you wish to look. I really like trend and hair and wonder. However I draw the road at ache, struggling and risking our lives. As a result of life is tough sufficient. Why is ladies’s discomfort and hurt nonetheless so hyper normalised?”