Lens Dunham: 'Why I Broke Up With New York'

Fat bitch didn’t feel like walking. New Yorkers walk.

“Omaha here I come!”

New York has a sigh of relief.

[quote]Lens Dunham: 'Why I Broke Up With New York'

[quote]King Kong: 'Why I Broke Up With New York'

[quote]Eve Harrington: 'Why I Broke Up With New York'

Read the room bitch. No one cares why you left New York

I don’t need to read this to know that Joan Didion’s “goodbye to all that” this is not.

The obesity rate in NYC is lower than the national average. It ranks 88 out of 100 most obese cities in the US.

Lena has gained about 600 pounds since leaving NYC.

I shoulda given her to Jesus when she was born... now the Devil has come home.

It’s not you, it’s us

She is such a product of her time. Those hipster millenials are dated, it's hard to believe they were so ubiquitous.

R6, the Didionitis is strong in this one.

She should get this tattooed

I miss Girls I wish she’d create another show

[quote]I was still nestled inside my mother like a Yonah Schimmel knish to go

I can't believe any editor let this ridiculous sentence be published.

She's exhausting.

[quote]The obesity rate in NYC is lower than the national average. It ranks 88 out of 100 most obese cities in the US.

New York City ranks 18th overall out of 182 US cities in a ranking of America's healthiest cities. A significant portion of New Yorkers, approximately 60%, are either overweight or obese. The city's obesity rate is a key factor contributing to its lower ranking in the overall health standings.

With Trump and Lena Dunham gone, that percentage should drop to 40%, r16. If you New Yorkers can get my fat daughter off her sofa and out of town, you might get it down to 20%.

Agree, R14. That line stopped me in my tracks, which is sort of how I always received Lena’s writing. She has some skill but it’s always punctuated with really bad lines.

That said, this made me feel sort of bad for her. She seems like she’s always longing for somewhere she can’t get. She claims to be settled now, but I question it.

She's unhappy because she's unattractive. And that's regardless of weight issues. She's just not pretty.

I know it's overly simplistic but it's the case for a lot of plain/unattractive women.

R19- She was kinda purty when she lost weight years ago. I do agree she is particularly unattractive now.

She dresses like this deliberately, she wants the negative attention. Her character on Girls did the same thing.

She’s intolerable

She needs to try monjurro

What she REALLY needs to do is break up with donuts.

Those donuts do look fabulous ( I am not a fat whore)

NY: No, I am breaking up with YOU

It’s a good article. Lena Dunham has realised that displaying humility is not innately anti-feminist relic when women-deserve-a-seat-at-the-table but a sign of humanity. She should keep writing and never act, ever.

R19 Is right

I was molested when i was down on the floor looking for my contact lens.

[quote]Lens: This town ain't big enough for the both of us.

Agreed.

Had she been like 80% of her peers (even the naturally beautiful ones) and fixed her nose, had her chin and jaw sculpted and a blepharoplasty, she could have transformed herself at least into something cute face-wise.

It wouldn't help her naturally mousy hair colour, her height, her unwillingness to see a personal trainer 3 times a week or to count calories, but it would be something.

I still remember her episode of Scandal, where she played the hottest call girl in Washington who was threatening to release a tell all book about her exploits.

I saw her in Chelsea when Girls first hit. She looked attractive and well groomed then. Her big problem was her pear shaped body. Not in fashion at all. Short of extensive surgery, not much she can do.

She’s left New York because she couldn’t fit!

That is some kind of mental illness in the pic at R20. There has to be deep seated self hatred to flaunt her repulsive body.

Her whole schtick was exposing herself and then shaming people who didn't want to look at it with diatribes on body shaming average looking women. But there was no point to her nudity, it was just random and pointless. I remember the Emmy opening one year that had her sitting naked in a bathroom eating a cake. It had nothing to do with the opening number (Which was some Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey dance) but for some reason it was just there.

It's telling that Girls never became a gay cult hit. Four female led series are catnip among gay audiences, yet Girls never took off in that way. Her appeal has always been greatly limited. And that generation of upper-class college, twenty something white feminists who lauded her "bravery" is now facing middle age and is largely outdated in today's society.

R30 I think most blonde actresses have mousy hair:

R34 it’s weird how she has no torso. Her breasts and right above her hips.

Also, obese women aren’t usually so flat chested. She’s just oddly shaped all around.

R19- When the show went on the air she was 25 years old and even though she was chubby ( not yet morbidly obese like she is now) she had a cuteness that being only 25 years old allows a young woman to have even when she is chubby. Her youth is long gone and she must weigh a hundred pounds more than she did when filming began in 2011.

Even then though she must have been jealous of Marnie ( was that her name) who was tall and slim and very pretty- in real life. On the show they were best friends and she was not jealous of her at all- which is TOTALLY fake.

Gingivitis with vagina dentata.

That takes commitment.

I liked this piece. She's a good writer.

Not to take her side, but I'd swap NYC for London in an instant if I were loaded. There's just no contest, especially with the current regime in D.C.

Because of this thread I decided to start watching GIRLS again on MAX. The early seasons were rather charming at times. She was always overweight but in 2011 when filming began she was only mildly overweight not the at least 100lbs she is now- poor thing.