Nigella Lawson has waded into the row over airbrushing photographs, saying that she has to ask US television companies not to get rid of her “sticking-out stomach”. 
 
 The television cook spoke out in response to Jameela Jamil, a British actress, who said the practice should be made illegal and urged her fans to boycott brands which edit photographs to make celebrities appear thinner. 
 
 Jamil, 32, a former BBC Radio 1 DJ who stars in The Good Place, the US fantasy television series, said: “For the last time, airbrushing is used as a tool for ethnicity erasure, colourism, ageism, fat-phobia, ableism, racism and sexism. 
 
 “It’s there to make you hate your real face and body. It made me hate my face, my body and my ethnicity for the longest time as a young woman.” 
 
 Lawson, 58, agreed, replying: “I’ve had to tell American TV stations not to airbrush my sticking-out stomach. 
 
 “The hatred of fat, and assumption that we’d all be grateful to be airbrushed thinner, is pernicious.” ||||| I’ve had to tell American tv stations not to airbrush my sticking out stomach. The hatred of fat, and assumption that we’d all be grateful to be airbrushed thinner is pernicious. ||||| Nigella Lawson has revealed she has had to tell US TV stations to not airbush her "sticking out" stomach. 
 
 The best-selling chef, 58, accused them of hating fat and said it was "pernicious" to assume everyone will be "grateful to be airbrushed thinner". 
 
 Lawson wrote: "I've had to tell American TV stations not to airbrush my sticking out stomach. 
 
 "The hatred of fat, and assumption that we'd all be grateful to be airbrushed thinner is pernicious." 
 
 I’ve had to tell American tv stations not to airbrush my sticking out stomach. The hatred of fat, and assumption that we’d all be grateful to be airbrushed thinner is pernicious. — Nigella Lawson (@Nigella_Lawson) December 15, 2018 
 
 The British chef was applauded for her stance by social media users, with one saying: "I cannot for the life of me fathom anyone ever wanting to airbrush Nigella!" 
 
 Will Paul added: "British television has real people on it. US television is fake. All the power to you Ms Lawson. You are the real deal." 
 
 Lawson was responding to a tweet by presenter and actor Jameela Jamil, who was criticising an Irish columnist for attacking her for calling for an end to airbrushing women in the public eye. 
 
 She thinks you’re “UGLY” just as you are. She also doesn’t understand that a huge part of why I hate photoshop is how it’s used as a tool of erasure of ethnicities, our skin colour, our features. This is embarrassing white privilege and deep misogyny. Slow clap @NadineORegan https://t.co/hZeCqU3mr8 — Jameela Jamil (@jameelajamil) December 15, 2018 
 
 Jamil, who is starring in US TV series The Good Place, said: "For the last time, airbrushing is used as a tool for ethnicity erasure, colourism, ageism, fat-phobia, ableism, racism and sexism. 
 
 "It's there to make you hate your real face and body. It made me hate my face, my body and my ethnicity for the longest time as a young woman." 
 
 At the beginning of this year Jamil, who is British, launched a movement to get editors to stop photoshopping celebrities and to look past people's looks. 
 
 Lawson has been fighting a photoshop battle against US networks for more than half a decade, after she starred alongside Anthony Bourdain in the reality cooking show, The Taste. 
 
 After finding out US marketing directors in 2013 were planning to airbrush her, she said: "No, you can't airbrush it. No. Leave it in."
– Everyone wants to look their best when their photo is taken or they're seen on TV, but not everyone is thrilled "to be airbrushed thinner." At least not British celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, who Sky News reports has taken issue with anyone trying to Photoshop how she looks. It all started Saturday, when Jameela Jamil, an actress on The Good Place, posted a harsh response to an opinion piece in an Irish newspaper, which had taken Jamil to task for advocating against airbrushing and "beseeching us to look uglier for the benefit of society." Jamil, who's long pushed back against manipulating images of celebrities, responded with a tweet: "A huge part of why I hate photoshop is how it's used as a tool of erasure of ethnicities, our skin colour, our features." That's when Lawson jumped in with her own tweet, responding to Jamil with a slam against US media in particular. "I've had to tell American tv stations not to airbrush my sticking out stomach," the 58-year-old wrote. "The hatred of fat, and assumption that we'd all be grateful to be airbrushed thinner is pernicious." The Telegraph notes it's not the first time Lawson has bristled at being artificially "fixed." In 2013, she appeared in billboards around the US to promote her ABC show The Taste, and she told a food blog that TV execs were "wincing" at the sight of her belly under her clothing. "You could see the roundness. It was a tummy," she shrugged, adding that "as human beings, we are flawed, and it would make me more anxious to hide my flaws than to reveal them. … There's only so long I can hold my tummy in without breathing." (Lawson suffered some "humiliation" a few years back.)