Lena Dunham slams magazine for putting her 'diet tips' on the cover

The Girls star said the article went against everything she's ever fought for
Hitting back: Lena Dunham slams an article about her weight loss 'tips'
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Amelia Glean8 May 2017
The Weekender

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Lena Dunham has slammed a magazine for putting her on the front cover illustrating a feature billed as “20 Slimdown Diet Tips” from celebrities.

Insisting that the article is "opposed to everything she's ever fought against", Dunham fired back with her own list of the 20 ways that she's slimmed down in a scathing Instagram post.

Having previously addressed the buzz around her recent weight loss, Dunham reiterated that her smaller waistline was due to her battle to stay on top of her endometriosis, as well as online abuse and the recent Presidential election.

Among the 'tips', she included, there’s that “quiet rage that replaces need for food with need for revenge” of course – and the time she had her “phone number leaked and violent images texted to [her] phone by randos," followed by “anxiety disorder” and “constant sweaty dreams of a dystopian future” – many of which were brought on by “an election that reveals the true depths of misogyny”.

The American actress also points out that she has a “pre-existing condition” which could bring on weight loss, referring to her endometriosis and mental health issues, conditions that, under President Trump's current proposed amendment to the American Health Care Act, would not be covered by health insurance, or have inflated premiums for.

Dunham’s full list of ‘diet tips’ reads:

1. Anxiety disorder

2. Resultant constant nausea

3. An election that reveals the true depths of American misogyny

4. Constant sweaty dreams of dystopian future

5. Abdominal adhesions pinning ovary below uterus

6. Baseless but still harrowing threats to physical safety online and through smail mail

7. Watching institutions you love from Planned Parenthood to PBS be threatened by cartoon mustache-twirling villains

8. Finally realizing superheroes aren’t real (specifically the X-Factor, really thought they’d handle this)

9. Marching your ass off

10. A quiet rage that replaces need for food with need for revenge

11. Sleeping 19 hours a day

12. Realising that even the liberal media wants dem clicks no matter whut

13. Worrying ceaselessly about the health and safety of women you know and women you don’t

14. Realising who ya real friends are

15. Having to switch from Uber to Lyft (lots of calories burned trying to understand a new app, then even more trying to understand if the conflict was resolved)

16. Bladder spasms, urinary frequency and urgency

17. Having your phone number leaked and violent images texted to your phone by randos under names like VERYFATCHUCKYBOY@creepz.com

18. Keeping your back arched against the wind

19. Um, who the f*** cares?

Lena Dunham's Girls - in pictures

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The two-time Golden Globe winner ended things by saying: “I have no tips, I give no tips, [and] I don’t want to be on this cover because it’s diametrically opposed to everything I’ve fought my whole career for and it’s not a compliment to me because it’s not an achievement. Thanks."

Lena isn't the only female celebrity to be interrogated about her weight loss, nor is this is the first magazine headline to have been written in an attempt to attract girls with the promises a 'dream bikini body in just six weeks.' Both have unhealthy consequences.

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