From the outside in, it may seem as if 26-year-old Jacqueline of all trades Lena Dunham has it all together. Genius scripts, hit show and a multi-million dollar book deal, but there is always another side to what we see with the naked eye.
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Lena is the cover girl for this month’s issue of Rolling Stone Magazine – a tough act to follow as Rihanna recently turned up the sex for the magazine. But Lena held her ground and played up her sexy yet messy look in a white t-shirt and black lace bra for the cover.
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In the interview, however, Lena gets a little honest about what it means to be the voice of a generation, and how she struggled with her own mental issues to get here.
On relating to the audience of her hit HBO series:
“It’s funny to me that I’m writing a show considered to be the voice of twenty-something people. Because I don’t feel that connected to it all the time.”
On her OCD and hypochondriac phase:
“AIDS, jaundice, you name it, I had it. I’d count eight times… I’d look on both sides of me eight times, I’d make sure nobody was following me down the street, I touched different parts of my bed before I went to sleep, I’d imagine a murder, and I’d imagine the same murder eight times.”
On battling her negative symptoms from various meds:
“I was exhausted all the time, nights sweats. I was pretty fat in high school if I look at it, because it just slows down your metabolism. My mom would always be like, ‘I think you’re having a lot of side effects,’ and I’d be like, ‘You’re such a b****; you just want me to be skinny!’ and my mom was like, ‘No, you’re just sleeping all the time and sweaty.'”
Her internet words of wisdom:
“Don’t ever Google a drug. Because it’s all psychos being like, ‘This blinded me, it killed my husband.’ Once I flushed all my [medication] down the toilet, because I was so scared by what I read. But if I feel I’m in the Tower of Terror, a little piece will just let me breathe.”
Be sure to head over to Rolling Stone for more from Lena.
