‘I love Celebrity gossip’: Lena Dunham opens up about her Guilty pleasures – and her favorite tattoo – in O Magazine
Lena Dunham has often been a victim to media fodder, but it appears she, too, can’t help herself when it comes to keeping up with the latest gossip.
In the October issue of O magazine, the 28-year-old Girls actress admits that Celebrity Gossip websites are her top Guilty pleasure.
‘I know that by reading them I’m supporting an industry that hurts people who are making art and putting themselves on the line,’ she said. ‘Still, all I want to know is who is breaking up with whom and who might be pregnant.’
The star poses in a short red dress and blue and white striped heels in the magazine, sitting backwards in a director’s chair that says ‘Lena’.
Her hair, which had not yet been bleached blonde at the time of the shoot, is styled in a cute brunette pixie cut, and her eyes rimmed in dark kohl eyeliner.
All I want to know is who is breaking up with whom and who might be pregnant
In the interview, Lena also reveals which of her many tattoos is her favorite, and why.
‘The word staunch on my right wrist,’ she says, explaining: ‘Little Edie of Grey Gardens calls herself a "staunch character."
‘It’s a reminder to hold my ground like a tough old lady.’
Lena, who has been dating Fun lead guitarist Jack Antonoff since 2024, says she heeds the advice of her mentors when it comes to dealing with the press.
‘She inspired me to decide that I’m never going to be the person who lets emails and voice mails sit for weeks – I’m going to be the person who responds, even if the answer is no.’‘Jane Rosenthal from Tribeca Films once told me, "Let them say whatever they want about you, but don’t let them say you didn’t answer their phone call,"’ she revealed.
Lena has had quite the busy schedule of late, from filming the fourth season of Girls to writing and publishing her memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, which will hit stores on September 30.
And luckily, when she needs a break, she has the uncanny ability to take one – pretty much anywhere.
‘I can fall asleep anytime, anyplace,’ she told O.
‘I’ve taken satisfying naps in a chair on set and on a park bench. I’m notorious in my family for having slept through a fire at our house when I was five.
‘The fire department came, and I missed it all.’
*Side eyes other board members*