In a tweet, The Good Place actress listed the various types of scars she has, and how she now no longer wants to hide them.

“I have such severe eczema all over that my legs are covered in huge patches of pigment loss from scratching,” she wrote. “I have a tonne of stretch marks, and because I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, *every* time I cut, I scar. I *refuse* to have these normal human marks weaponised against me.”

Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) are a group of rare inherited conditions that affect connective tissue, and one of the effects can be fragile skin that splits easily and scars easily.

Jamil’s words struck a chord, with dozens of people sharing stories and pictures of their own scars. Jamil later gave a “shout out to all the utter babes” who responded to her tweet and embraced their scars, adding: “I know it’s hard, and it took me a bit of time to do it myself, but gosh it’s SO fucking liberating when you do.”

Jameela Jamil is sick of having her scars “weaponised” against her