Lena Dunham Has a Message for Body Shamers Criticizing Her Look in Marriage ceremony Images
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Staunch a week after photos from her marriage ceremony went viral, Lena Dunham is addressing the “gnarly” feedback she’s bought from physique-shamers on social media.
A couple of days after the Girls superstar, 35, confirmed that she’d tied the knot with musician Luis Felber, 35, Lena defined in an Instagram post on Oct. 6 that she’s needed to defend a step aid after reading disparaging feedback on-line.
After sharing that the week after her marriage ceremony “became shapely for so many reasons,” Lena added, “I’ve shared many challenges with you and these moments of joy had me pondering that we need to level-headed admit when we’re chuffed too-it’s now not against the law. But all of this safety made me neglect, for a 2nd, why I’ve created such intense boundaries with the web over the previous few years.”
Lena went on to set up that she now not too long ago “took a discover about” previous the unprecedented supportive and titillating feedback about herself on-line and noticed some “gnarly s–t.”
“Most [are] now not value responding to and even sharing with you,” she wrote. “But one myth I defend field with, largely because it’s far a myth I contain now not need other females, folks, to receive lodged in their heads is that I need to level-headed by some means be ashamed because my physique has changed since I became final on tv.”
Even supposing the actress regarded on the massive show conceal within the 2019 film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, her final tv roles incorporated her persona on her HBO announce, Girls, and a guest position in American Scare Narrative: Cult—each and each in 2017.
“First and most principal ‘did Lena eat the solid of Girls’ ravishing is now not in point of reality a shimmering amusing tale- I could punch that up for the Tweeter,” she continued. “Secondly, it’s ironic to possess my physique compared to a physique that became additionally the sector of public scorn—an echo chamber of physique shaming. But lastly, when will we be taught to discontinuance equating thinness with health/happiness? For certain, weight loss could even additionally be the tip end result of certain change in habits, but wager what? So, can weight make.”
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The author, who printed in 2018 that she became sober after “misusing” benzodiazepines and became later diagnosed with post-annoying stress dysfunction, added, “The pics I’m being compared to are from after I became in lively addiction with undiagnosed illness. In the 4 years since, I’ve gotten sober and begun my existence as any individual who aspires toward health and never ravishing achievement. These adjustments possess allowed me to be the roughly sister/friend/daughter that I need to be and yes—meet my husband (who, by the fashion, does now not acknowledge me in those veteran photos because he sees how dimmed my light became).”
“I thunder this for every other person whose appearance has been changed with time, illness or circumstance,” she concluded her post. “Or now not it’s alright to reside in your show conceal physique with out treating it as transitional. I am, and I’m in point of reality enjoying it. Admire you all.”
Lena’s heartfelt post garnered a complete bunch supportive feedback from fans and fellow celebs, praising the actress for her words. As actress Lily Collins, who has herself been begin about her previous fight with an eating dysfunction, build it, “Right here’s ravishing so beautifully acknowledged. And I thanks for striking it accessible. Sending so worthy esteem and so many hugs to you each and each. From one newlywed to 1 more.”