Lena Dunham would really like people to stop talking about her weight loss.
But, first, Lena Dunham would like to talk about her weight loss.
Appearing as a guest today on Ellen, the actress was greeted with some very kind words from the host.
"You look fantastic. You look really good," Ellen DeGeneres told the 30-year-old TV star, adding of Dunham and some recent chatter that"s been surrounding her:
"You always look great, but I know that you got a lot of flack for losing weight, which is ridiculous."
It certainly is the case that Dunham has shed quite a few pounds.
She"s joked in the past that the Donald Trump Diet (i.e. not eating due to never-ending fear, anger and nausea) is responsible for this revamped figure, but she turned serious in her interview with Ellen.
"It"s just so crazy because I spent six years of my career being called things like "bag of milk" on the internet – "bag of milk," "baby cow," "aging cow." I just never felt self-conscious about it," Dunham said on the show.
She continued:
"I was like, "Anyone who is going to take the time to say something negative about my weight on the internet isn"t someone I was particularly keen to impress anyway." Then I had this experience of my body changing.
"Suddenly I got all these people saying, "You"re a hypocrite. I thought you were body positive. I thought you were a person who embraced body types of all sizes."
"I do. I just understand that bodies change. We live a long time. Things happen."
Slammed for her weight and then bashed for her weight loss, Dunham arrives at one conclusion in the following video:
"As a woman in Hollywood, you just can"t win."
Do you agree with her?
Watch the full interview below and then weigh in on this weight loss debate:
