About
Lena Dunham is an American actress and writer best known for creating and starring in the HBO series Girls
Acting Career
Girls
Girls is an American comedy television show that follows the lives of four women in their early twenties living in New York City. Upon its premiere on HBO in April 2012, the show quickly became a hot topic on entertainment and women’s issue websites, with bloggers often criticizing the lack of racial diversity on the show.
Online History
Vogue Cover
On January 16th, 2014, after Vogue released photos of actress and comedian Lena Dunham appearing in their February issue, Jezebel published an article titled, “We’re Offering $10,000 for Unretouched Images of Lena Dunham in Vogue.”[5] The feminist website explained in the article,
"Lena Dunham is a woman who trumpets body positivity, who’s unabashedly feminist, who has said that her naked body is “a realistic expression of what it’s like to be alive” and “if you are not into me, that’s your problem.” Her body is real. She is real. And for as lovely as the Vogue pictures are, they’re probably not terribly real. So Jezebel is offering $10,000 for pre-Photoshop images from Lena’s Vogue shoot."
This call for the originals drew criticism, with TV critic Emily Nussbaum tweeting,
“If Dunham wanted to release her own retouched photos, that might be interesting. Asking for a bounty on them? GROSS.”
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and screenwriter Diablo Cody adding,
“This is total mean-girl shit masquerading as feminism. I’m disgusted.”
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Jezebel reported receiving the alleged untouched images two hours after their call, and published them in the form of before and after GIFs in an article posted on January 17th.[8]
Search Interest
External References
[1]IMDB- TCA: HBO’s ‘Girls’ Renewed For Fourth Season