Lena Dunham may be 28 years old, but she’s wise beyond her years. To promote her forthcoming memoir
, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned ,” the creator and star of HBO’s
Girls answered fans’ questions in a series of 12 YouTube videos. In the clips, Dunham addressed topics ranging from from feminism to how to handle unfunny friends. Asked about how she learned to love the skin she’s in, Dunham replied, “I went through all of college dressing like a lunatic, wearing neon and raving around and secretly hating myself. I know it’s a really, really complicated thing because you sort of want to project the confidence that you don’t have to sort of beat people to the punch and critique yourself before they can critique you.” “I’ve been a bunch of different weights, and being temporarily 135 lbs., I was so obsessed with food,” Dunham admitted. “I was so obsessed with, like, counting almonds that I don’t think I got laid that entire time, whereas when I was at my biggest and running around Brooklyn in a romper, it was raining men.”
