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Lena Dunham Delivered Some Hard Truths About Body Image Issues During The Pandemic

"Why do I still feel like weight loss is an item for my to-do?"
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Lena Dunham Delivered Some Hard Truths About Body Image Issues During The Pandemic​

"Why do I still feel like weight loss is an item for my to-do?"​

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on everyone, including Lena Dunham — who recently disclosed her own experience after contracting the illness earlier this year.​

"I’ve been thinking a lot about my pot belly in quarantine," she wrote, "especially as I notice an unusual amount of articles with titles like 'How I lost the weight' and 'Diet is everything.'"​

"Somehow, headlines that used to roll off my flesh rolls sting in a new way — not because I think that’s the body I’m meant to have, but because it feels like it’s adding yet another item to the epic to-do list we are all creating for ourselves in Covid."​

"But for most people pandemic life has not proven to be a break from the world or themselves. And so the list grows, the items remain unchecked, and the suggestion of a revamped clean eating plan in my newsfeed somehow feels like a personal assault."​

"Growing up chubby, fat, thicc, whatever you wanna call it — I always felt my body was a sign that read 'I’m lazy and I have done less.' Like if I just found the will to invest 30% more I could be okay."​

"Over the years, as my body guided me through my career and illness and disability, I started to appreciate what it was capable of. But somehow, this pandemic time has brought back some of those old feelings of self-loathing and I think it all comes back to that damned to-do list, the one that started when we went into lockdown."​

"Should I be revamping my fridge with veggies and showing off before/after pics, emerging from quarantine with a revenge body? And why, after all these years spent fostering self love, do I still feel like weight loss is an item for my to-do?"​

Dunham concluded by asking her followers to share their own experiences on "What has this period brought up for you as you’ve sat with the body you were given, no matter where self isolation has taken it?"​

The comments are worth reading — and Dunham's experience is certainly relatable, as it's important to remember that we could all stand to go a little easier on ourselves during this tough time.​

 
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Jesus Christ she is so ugly now. She has lost all sex appeal and is disgusting. Not attractive. Offensive looking actually. I don’t like how she is so proud of herself for getting fat. I don’t care if a woman is not interested in finding a man being fat is still unhealthy for a humans health. Instead of giving herself a pat on the back for being so fat she should focus on her health.
 
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Does she look like this to anyone else?


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Is the fat sow still in Wales? Plenty of other livestock there, but it's a bit too close to England for my liking. Surely it's safe for her to return to Trump free Merika??
 
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Jesus Christ she is so ugly now. She has lost all sex appeal and is disgusting. Not attractive. Offensive looking actually. I don’t like how she is so proud of herself for getting fat. I don’t care if a woman is not interested in finding a man being fat is still unhealthy for a humans health. Instead of giving herself a pat on the back for being so fat she should focus on her health.
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She would always have been somewhat plain, but letting herself go like that is just unnecessary laziness. This is what inactivity, poor hygiene, pill popping, malingering, and an elective hysterectomy do to you. Evidently money doesn't make you immune. It's fitting when sex offenders who force non-consensual incest and publicly brag about it are fat, greasy, insufferable and generally repulsive, it's like a warning label. All she needs is the grody pedophile glasses and we have the bingo.

I sincerely hope there are not women or girls out there who see this and actually think "lol so relatable!" because this is not something to aspire to.
 
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The handsome tard said:
We keep making stupid people famous for some reason.
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Judd Apatow.

Shes ~~relatable~~ to white women bc she is the **cool girl** she's not like other girls. She molested her sister and got tattoos and looks like Lil Critter. She has health problems just like everyone else!!!!!!111111oneone!!!! #relatable
 
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Judd Apatow.

Shes ~~relatable~~ to white women bc she is the **cool girl** she's not like other girls. She molested her sister and got tattoos and looks like Lil Critter. She has health problems just like everyone else!!!!!!111111oneone!!!! #relatable
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I didnt know being awful means you are relatable. There is being flawed but still doing your best and then there is being an awful garbage person and being proud of it.
 
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Larkin N Likin said:
So essentially, feeling societal pressure to become a better person is oppression. Everyone should be happy with the fat ugly hypocritical slob who molested her sister, because a society unhappy with its presence is modern-day Nazi Germany.
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Societal pressure to be better is only oppression if it's used against them. They have free reign to pressure everyone else to nebulously "be better" as much as they want, tho.
 
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Oh shut up, Lena Dunham. Back to the crawlspace with you. Not the one inside your sister.

"But, but, fat, ree ree ree, fat!" Go talk to someone who went broke or watched people disappear.
 
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I love that we are supposed to care about these issues or anything Lena Dunham says during the pandemic. The same people who constantly tell us how afraid and depressed we should be push out, "Why aren't you remembering Body Shaming," like we don't have enough problems.
 
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