What chronic illness does Jameela Jamil have? Was Jameela Jamil deaf?

Jameela Alia Jamil is a British activist, presenter, and actor. She started her career on Channel 4, where she hosted a T4 strand pop culture series from 2009 to 2012.

She later became the radio presenter of The Official Chart and co-hosted The Official Chart Update on BBC Radio 1 with Scott Mills. She was the BBC Radio 1 chart show’s first single female presenter.

Jamil moved to the United States in 2016. In the NBC fantasy comedic series The Good Place, she portrayed Tahani Al-Jamil.

She is also a judge on the voguing reality competition program Legendary and hosts the TBS late-night game show The Misery Index.

What chronic illness does Jameela Jamil have?

Jamil said she has hypermobile EDS (hEDS), the most common type of EDS comprising about 90% of cases and affecting at least 1 in 3,100–5,000 people, according to the Ehlers-Danlos Society.

Was Jameela Jamil deaf?

She said in 2015 that as a child, she faced a plethora of health problems, being born with congenital hearing loss and labyrinthitis, which she says she has had several operations to correct, and that she had 70% hearing ability in her left ear and 50% in her right ear.