Jonah Hill says that intrusive photos of him no longer affect him, and he is talking about his body image to encourage children to accept who they are, whatever weight they are.
In an Instagram post on Friday, the actor posted photos of paparazzi published this week that show him shirtless and surfing on the beach in Malibu, California. Hill said that this type of photo did not affect him anymore, a change in his life that comes from himself. acceptance.
“I am 37 years old and I finally love and accept myself,” he wrote. Hill has been relentlessly followed by paparazzi for years, and his weight has been a topic of conversation in the tabloids. Hill said it was the public mockery of his body in the press and by interviewers that put him back on his journey to self-love.
“I don’t think I ever took my shirt off at the pool until I was over 30, even in front of family and friends,” he wrote, adding that it probably would have happened earlier if he hadn’t had his childhood insecurities exploited by the media.
Hill spoke directly to the published photos from his surfing session, saying: “The idea that the media tries to play me chasing me while surfing and printing pictures like this and it can’t shake me anymore sucks.
Fans of the “Wolf of Wall Street” star accessed the comments section of his heartfelt post to applaud him for his honesty.
“You probably won’t read this comment, but, good man, it’s amazing to be amazing and I’m happy to know that someone I admired fought what I went through and came out on top. Keep winning,” wrote one person.
Another added: “We didn’t know each other, but this post gave me all the sensations. I was also that pool boy. Self-love and trust are the most important ❤️”
Hill had previously shared his anguish that his body and weight were constant topics – and targets.
“I became famous in my late teens and then spent most of my young adult life listening to people say I was fat, disgusting and unattractive,” he told Ellen DeGeneres in 2018. “I really believe that everyone has a portrait of himself from a time when they were young and of which they were ashamed “, saying that he remembered himself as a 14 year old boy, that” he felt terrible for the world “.
In covering Hill’s years of weight loss, stores published headlines like, “Will weight loss make Jonah Hill less funny?” and “The problem of being a skinny Jonah Hill”, which suggests that America found him less funny as he lost weight, and that he was “more adorable” when he became famous.
Hill has been rejecting media questions about his weight for the past few years, and in 2017, an older interview emerged in which he was asked, “Are you still the fat guy in Hollywood?”
“Do you have any other questions?” Hill fired back. “Is that smart?”
Hill ended his Friday post on Instagram with a final message, a word of encouragement to children who may be experiencing the same type of insecurity that he himself has faced. He said his post was really for “kids who don’t take their shirts off in the pool. Have fun, ”he said. “You are wonderful, incredible and perfect. All my Love.”
