Lena Dunham slams insane obsession over the shape of my body

This girl isn’t here for the online chatter.Lena Dunham is opening up about the public’s unsolicited opinions on her body while she was starred on the HBO Max series “Girls,” from 2012 to 2017.“I expected that people would have a response to the kind of sex the show was depicting or the level of nudity, but the idea that my body, the shape of my body, would become such a hotbed for discussion? It was insane,” the actress, 39, said while speaking to The Times on Saturday.“I can’t say I was never rocked, but I’m lucky enough that my thing has never been looking at a picture of myself and picking myself apart or feeling tortured about how I looked—it’s just not my area,” Dunham added.“I have my own stuff I’m tortured about, but it wasn’t that.”In 2013, Howard Stern called the Netflix star “a little fat girl,” and a year later, the magazine Jezebel offered $10,000 for the original picture of her Vogue cover to prove it had been retouched.The writer also touched on Ozempic, a Semaglutide injection used to treat type 2 diabetes, which is now also being used for weight loss.Dunham dubbed the current day and age an “Ozempiced-out moment,” while asking, “Does the body positivity movement still exist?” and noting, “I don’t know where it is.”Once “Girls,” which followed a group of friends post-college, went off the air eight years ago, Dunham intentionally stepped out of the limelight.

She ended up moving to London in 2021 after her breakup with Jack Antonoff.Within six months, she met and married her husband, Luis Felber.“Being on the ‘Girls’ set all the time was like living in a fake New York,” continued Dunham.

“I spent my whole twenties pretending to go out in the city and pretending to live, so I didn’t actually know how to do it at all.When the show ended I didn’t know what direction to move in.

I wasn’t young enough to be out and feeling fun and free.“I felt fatigued, yet didn’t know how...