Jonah Hill has overcome his decades-long battle with body insecurity and is telling all those kids “who don’t take their shirts off in the pool” that they are “wonderful, amazing and perfect”.
Hill accessed Instagram on Friday night after the Daily Mail posted a photo of him changing his shirt after a recent surf session. The Oscar-nominated actor attached the article – with pictures and everything – and, in the caption, he opened up about his old anxiety about bodily issues.
The “War Dogs” and “Superbad” star said she never felt comfortable taking off her shirt in the pool, even around family and friends, until the mid-1930s, adding that “it probably would have happened earlier if my insecurities in childhood were not exacerbated by years of public mockery about my body by the press and interviews. So, the idea that the media tries to play me chasing me while surfing and prints pictures like this and that can’t affect me anymore sucks. “
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Now Hill wants to encourage and support children who, today, are like him at his age and tell them that they are “perfect” as they are.
“I am 37 years old and I finally love and accept myself,” he wrote. “This is not a ‘good for me’ post. And it’s definitely not a ‘post I feel bad for me’ It’s for the [sic] children who do not take off their shirts in the pool. Have a good time. You are wonderful, incredible and perfect. All my Love.”
Hill then added a coda: “Oh and Daily Mail, you can’t even get that smile off my face,” complete with a winking smiley face.
Hill previously spoke about his struggles with weight fluctuation during a 2018 interview on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”, saying, “I became famous in my late teens and spent most of my young adult life listening to people say that I was fat and disgusting and unattractive. ”
He said that only years later, while driving “Mid90s”, he realized “how much it hurt and got into my head”.