It's the asspats she gets from the online media that drive me nuts. One of the few articles I got sucked into had the headline "Lena Dunham makes a
beautiful bridesmaid!" When I saw the pictures I thought the headline might have been a troll on here, but apparently they were serious. The other bridesmaids were fit, healthy, hair and makeup done up for the pictures, and then Lena Dunham sticking out out like a sore thumb. Trademark greasy hair in a terrible style, oily face with no makeup, clammy white skin, veal-like muscle tone with terrible posture, and of course an ill-fitting dress with visible outline of her too-small thong squeezing into her fat. I see plenty of wedding pictures, and even when the bridesmaids aren't the most traditionally pretty women, they put 10,000 times more effort into their presentation than she did.
I will say there are two times I felt sort of bad for Lena Dunham:
1) She did a photoshoot for a magazine cover, and of course they had an actual stylist dress her and put her in proper hair and makeup, and retouched the photos as is standard procedure, and she ended up looking pretty good. Then some angry woman blogger got mad that she looked good and said she'd pay $10,000 for the un-photoshopped pictures from the shoot. Lena felt good about the pictures, got justifiable praise for the first time, and instead of just assholes on social media that she can easily dismiss giving her shit for her looks, she now has someone with a platform and an audience making a lot of noise about it.
2) Some POC said about Girls "I wish there were more people that looked like me on it". I understand that non-white people are underrepresented on TV, but I really dislike when diversity is forced upon something that is supposed to be portrayed as realistic. The show is about some annoying millennial hipster broads, and they probably wouldn't have any black friends in real life (it also drives me nuts when people force modern social ideals into otherwise faithful period pieces). It's also a good example of woman turning on each other, and how this younger generation thinks that just because they have some outlet, they have the right to alter the creative direction of someone else's project. She couldn't just be happy and supportive that someone other than a middle-aged white guy was the creative force behind a show, she had to poke and prod and try to make someone else's vision more palatable to her desires.
Also her tattoo...what is it supposed to be? A house?
I always thought it looked like the mold patterns in blue stilton cheese.
I guess it's a petty gripe but I'll never understand why she goes out of her way to be as ugly as possible. I mean seriously, you never see her wearing clothes that fit her properly or a haircut on her that doesn't look like she lost a fight with scissors. Every time she steps out in public she looks like the toddler whose mother let her dress herself for the first time.
I don't think it's petty at all; it's show business, you're supposed to be better than regular people. I legitimately think the world was a better place when our vapid celebrities were supermodels and actors and pop stars that dressed up and distinguished themselves from the unwashed masses, rather than the average nobodies that make up YouTube and reality show stardom today. For better or worse, it game people something to strive for, to try and attain a higher lifestyle, as opposed to just wallowing in their own mundane existence. I think it all started with the 'C-student and proud of it' president that they grew up with.
