https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lena-dunham-girls-and-body-image Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:01:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lena-dunham-girls-and-body-image#post-843226 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:30:13 +0000 Janet 843226@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have seen the first season of "Girls," and I have mixed feelings about it, but on the whole I enjoyed it enough that I'll be checking out the second season too. I love that Lena Dunham is unapologetically her own fabulous self, no matter what she is (or isn't) wearing. Oh, to have that body confidence! </p> <p>Yeah, Raisin, don't even get me started on modeling and so-called "plus sizes." I think most plus size models are my size. Sheesh, no wonder so many of us feel bad when we look at fashion photos. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lena-dunham-girls-and-body-image#post-843133 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:04:42 +0000 Raisin 843133@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yah I see what you mean Irene. Aren't most so called plus sized models not even plus sized? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lena-dunham-girls-and-body-image#post-842914 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:35:55 +0000 Irene 842914@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I totally agree with you, Raisin. I always find it annoying when people say 'real women have curves'. All women are real. What I meant with this is that I hate it when they talk about 'normal' women or 'real' women and they show you a plus size MODEL. As if I should feel like we look alike. Are they trying to make ME feel better? </p> <p>The women in this show look like the women around me. Some slimmer, some thicker, none of them airbrushed. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lena-dunham-girls-and-body-image#post-842693 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:59:20 +0000 Jules 842693@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Loved the first season for many reasons and this was a big one. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lena-dunham-girls-and-body-image#post-842525 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:36:07 +0000 Raisin 842525@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>She is definitely not ugly. Sounds like an interesting show, I haven't heard of it.</p> <p>It IS refreshing to see different shapes and sizes of women represented on TV and films, so I thank you for posting this. Just wanted to add though, that all women are real women. Including Kate Moss, these actresses and all other women. Even if your a woman with a body shape or size that falls into a percentage that very few of the general population has, you're still a real woman. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lena-dunham-girls-and-body-image#post-842505 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:18:42 +0000 Caro in Oz 842505@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for sharing. What kind of craziness do we live with when we call her ugly? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/lena-dunham-girls-and-body-image#post-842323 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:26:22 +0000 Irene 842323@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I discovered HBO's 'Girls' a couple of weeks ago because Emma Watson -never would have thought I would pair a Warner Bro's actress and 'Girls' in the same sentence- was raving about it on an interview in Glamour magazine.</p> <p>After a bit of research I can see Lena Dunham is a polemic character all around, and for many reasons (including lack of ethnic diversity in her show, almost explicit sex, casual abortions and her ad for Obama's campaign) but I don't want to get into any of these because it could explode in so many different ways.</p> <p>While not exactly comfortable with the portrayal of sex in this TV series, I LOVE that the main character looks like the average young white American -or any possible friend of mine. Moreover, I love that the other three cast members look like any of my friends as well. Even the 'hot girl' one has a little bulging stomach when she wears a tight dress -and who doesn't. The attractive liberal blondie is far from skin and bones. And the posh girl is rather 'plain', or as I would prefer to say: not traditionally beautiful. </p> <p>I just finished episode 5 from the first season, and I have yet to decide whether this show is worth my time, but I want to applaud the producer, writer and main actress for showing the world what a normal young woman looks like naked, and that she can still be considered attractive and desirable by the young male population.</p> <p>This is not about real women having curves. Or about plus-size models that are 1.80m tall and wear a size 10. Or about bombshells like Cristina Hendricks and formerly-curvy Scarlett Johanson. As much as I would love to look like any of these women, I don't. I will never do. And they are NOT the norm -even if they look oh so different from Kate Moss.</p> <p>This is about real women, period. Or more like, the average woman. Period.</p> <p>I think we really needed this. So, thank you.</p> <p>PS: I've read too many comments on Dunham being ugly. Maybe I got used to her 'ugliness', but I find her rather beautiful </p>