Jameela Jamil has called out women at the BAFTAs for being "scarily thin"

She wrote on Instagram: "The women at the BAFTAs were scarily thin, in a way that reminded me of watching when I was a kid.

"Where everyone looks like they could snap. It's a specifically fragile type of thin.

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

The 40-year-old star insisted now is "not the time to be frail", instead urging women to be "strong" and "fight back for our ever diminishing rights and safety".

Jameela claimed "here is a deliberate POLITICAL reasoning behind wanting women and girls to be frail, hungry, tired and easy to hurt", and noted the power for change is there.

She continued: "If we all collectively refused to starve ourselves, they would have to bend to us. 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."

She also urged people reading her post not to

"waste time and energy" by accusing her of "skinny shaming", particular as a "slim woman" herself.

She explained: "I am aware that it's not nice to be ridiculed for being too thin. I have experienced that in the past.

"This is about the sudden group weight loss of an entire industry of women of all different ages, ethnicities, heights and builds. Even new mums.

"It's about the homogenization of sudden, rapid, weight loss to achieve a bone thin appearance for 'glamour.' "

Instead, she highlighted the need for "all sorts of different sizes" of people, rather than treating women's bodies like "trends".

She added: "Anorexia is the most dangerous as it has the highest cause of death in any mental illness, so it's the bigger emergency than the feelings of any naturally thin women who feel offended.

"As a slim woman... I feel as though I have the right to say life or death takes precedence in this moment."