Jonah Hill requested that his followers stop commenting on his body in an Instagram post on Wednesday.
“I know you mean well but I kindly ask that you not comment on my body,” wrote the 37-year-old. “Good or bad I want to politely let you know that it’s not helpful and doesn’t feel good. Much respect.”
The statement came a couple months after Hill addressed how “years of public mockery” by the media had “exacerbated” his childhood insecurities in another Instagram post. Next to a screenshot of a Daily Mail article featuring photos of the actor changing into a wetsuit, he wrote: “I don’t think I ever took my shirt off in a pool until I was in my mid 30s even in front of family and friends … So the idea that the media tries to play me by stalking me while surfing and printing photos like this and it can’t phase me anymore is dope.”