Lena Dunham was pretty pissed off to find herself on a recent encompas of Us Weekly, and we candidly can’t blame her.
Next to a headline offering “2 0 Slimdown diet tips-off suns are use, ” Us Weekly operated a photograph of the “Girls” star with the caption “Lena: how she gets motivated.”
But here’s the thing: Dunham didn’t give the magazine any “slimdown” tips-off nor did she let them know how she gets motivated.
In a scorching answer on Instagram, Dunham dropped some brutal franknes about weight and health:
The caption reads:
“2 0 slimdown diet tips-off! 1. nervousnes disease* 2. resultant constant nausea 3. an election that reveals the true depths of American misogyny 4. constant sweaty nightmares of dystopian future 5. abdominal adhesions pinning ovary below uterus* 6. baseless but still harrowing threats to physical safety online and through smail mail 7. watching establishments you adoration from Schemed Parenthood to PBS be threatened by cartoon mustache-twirling scoundrels 8. finally recognise superheroes aren’t real( specifically the X-Factor, truly thought they’d handle this) 9. marching your ass off 10. a quiet rage that supplants need for meat with need for revenge 11. sleeping 19 hours a day 12. realizing that even the liberal media wants dem clicks no matter whut 13. worrying continuously about the health and safety of women you know as well as women you don’t 14. realizing who ya real pals are 15. having to switching from Uber to Lyft( lots of calories burned trying to understand a new app, then even more trying to understand if existing conflicts was resolved) 16. bladder cramps, urinary frequency and urgency* 17. having your telephone number leaked and violent images texted to your phone by randos under names like VERYFATCHUCKYBOY @creepz. com 18. maintaining your back arched against the wind 19. um, who the fuck cares? 20. I have no tips-off I make no tips I don’t want to be on this encompas cuz it’s diametrically opposed to everything I’ve opposed my whole career for and it’s not a praise to me because it’s not an accomplishment thanx* Star indicates a pre-existing condition”
“[ Weight loss is] diametrically opposed to everything I’ve opposed my whole career for and it’s not a praise to me because it’s not an accomplishment, ” she wrote as the 20 th and final “tip.”
Listing everything from an nervousnes disease to being stalked by strangers online, Dunham touches on a bunch of factors that may have affected her weight in one way or another. The most important level here, though, is that weight simply shouldn’t matter . And in Dunham’s case, this is something she’s talked about over and over c’mon, people!
“I feel I’ve made it pretty clear over the years that I don’t make even the tiniest of shits what anyone else feels about my torso, ” she wrote on Instagram back in March.
“I’ve is cognizant of the fact that my torso is an ever changing creature , not a fixed entity what goes up must come down and vice versa. I smile just as wide no matter my current sizing because I’m proud of what this torso has read and done and represented.”
A person’s weight or weight loss don’t automatically correlate with a person’s health and that’s something worth keeping in mind the next time you’re seduced to say-so, “You look great; did you lose weight? “
Illustrator Miriam Caldwell opened up about the extremely awkward situation she was put in as pals praised her on losing weight not knowing that the weight loss was brought on by an illness. And in Dunham’s case, she’s recently lost some weight as the result of taking steps to try and manage her endometriosis.
The point is that you don’t know what someone’s situation is, and sometimes these “compliments” can actually be pain and embarrassing.
Being skinny doesn’t automatically construct you a spokesperson for all things healthy, just as being fat doesn’t signify mean you’re unhealthy. Health can’t be measured on a scale, and it’s not something any of us can see simply by looking at another person. So don’t let publications mislead you by only telling you half the story. Health and happiness is possible at any size.
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