Dunham: Glossy sex scenes depress me
Lena Dunham gets "depressed" over "glossy" sex scenes.
The 'Girls' creator has no problem with getting intimate on screen and admits she wants to promote a more realistic portrayal of love making than is usually shown in film or on TV.
She said: "I get depressed with the sex scenes that we see, which are glossy bodies with the negligee, having unrealistic sex."
And the 28-year-old actress admits she has always been comfortable flashing her flesh as a way to deter people from poking fun at her curvy figure.
She told Grazia magazine: "When I was a teenager, I grew up in New York and it was really image focused.
"My high school was rife with eating disorders. Our idea of a fat girl, at high school, was me. That experience of suddenly entering ninth grade and putting on 35lbs... I went from being a skinny kid to a chubby teenager, so I started thinking about ways to reclaim my body.
"I remember getting in trouble in a high school play - this is so gross - for playing with my belly fat. My teacher was like, 'You really hammed it up on stage, you took attention away from Sonia's play and this shows a very strange relationship to your own body.'
"Part of me was going, 'I'd like everyone to laugh at me right now'. But also, part of it was I didn't want other people to have the first laugh."
