Lena Dunham Slams Us Weekly; Shares Her ‘20 Slimdown Diet Tips’

Lena Dunham has graced her fair share of magazine covers, but the “Girls” star didn’t like the reason she ended up on the latest cover of Us Weekly. A new issue of the magazine features Dunham next to a headline that reads, “20 Slimdown Diet Tips Stars Are Using.”

Never one to bite her tongue, the actress took to Instagram to slam the magazine and shared her own “20 slimdown diet tips,” which actually included 18. In typical Dunham fashion, the actress made sure to mock the publication with tips that included having an anxiety disorder — which she reminded fans was a “pre-existing condition” — sleeping 19 hours a day, having to switch to Lyft from Uber and keeping your back arched against the wind. Check out Dunham’s 18 tips below (“* Star indicates a pre-existing condition,” she noted.):

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 [sic] 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 a-- off
10. A quiet rage that replaces need for food with need for revenge
11. Sleeping 19 hours a day
12. Realizing 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. Realizing 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

The “Girls” star’s last two tips weren’t really tips, instead, Dunham asked who cares and ended her post by writing, “I have no tips I give no tips I don’t want to be on this cover cuz 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 thanx.”

While Dunham has recently slimmed down, she has made it her mission to not be included in the weight loss narrative. In a March Instagram post, Dunham said she doesn’t care what anyone thinks about her body.

“I’ve accepted that my body is an ever changing organism, not a fixed entity — what goes up must come down and vice versa. I smile just as wide no matter my current size because I’m proud of what this body has seen and done and represented,” she wrote. The actress ended her post by saying she refuses to celebrate before and after photos.