14 DAY TRIAL // Lena Dunham, the writer and one of the stars of HBO’s critically acclaimed “Girls” TV show, already has quite a reputation as a feminist, unorthodox type of girl. She sticks to it in her brand new interview with Playboy magazine.
Lena is far from the cutie-cutter type of girl usually found in Hollywood, which is not to say she’s ugly – just different.
Different is good, the star says.
Asked what she’d do if she woke up one morning looking like a Victoria’s Secret model and she were told she’d have an entire day in her skin, Lena admits she’d probably freak out, the bad kind of freaking out.
“I’d be really disoriented and wonder what had happened in the night. Which enemy had dragged me to the doctor? I don’t think I’d like it very much,” she says.
“There would be all kinds of weird challenges to deal with that I don’t have to deal with now. I don’t want to go through life wondering if people are talking to me because I have a big [bust]. Not being the babest person in the world creates a nice barrier,” she explains.
“The people who talk to you are the people who are interested in you. It must be a big burden in some ways to look that way and be in public. That said, I probably would want to see if I could get free food at restaurants. Then I’d call a doctor and see if she could return me to my former situation,” Lena continues.
As expected, her comments have already generated quite a debate online, with some voices saying she’s just pretending to be this cool about it precisely because it knows it could never happen.
However, most applaud her: as she says in the interview, appearances aren’t everything in life, there are other things that matter as well and women must be made aware of that.
She’s not afraid to call herself a feminist, as neither is she to put the feminist label to her show.
“Feminism isn’t a dirty word. It’s not like we’re a deranged group who think women should take over the planet, raise our young on our own and eliminate men from the picture. Feminism is about women having all the rights that men have,” Lena says.
Her full interview is here, but *please be advised that some caution might be recommended before clicking through.