Joan Rivers, American comedian and body-shamer extraordinaire, has lashed out at Girls creator and star Lena Dunham for being comfortable with her weight.
During a visit to the Howard Stern Show on Tuesday, the 80-year-old Fashion Police host accused normal-sized comedic genius (and one of our imaginary best friends) Dunham, 27, of sending a dangerous message to viewers.
Rivers kicked the whole nasty tirade off by saying of Dunham’s fashion sense, “How could she wear dresses above the knee?”
But when Stern pointed out that Lena specifically shows off her curves to promote a positive message of body acceptance, Rivers took her cattiness to a new level.
“But that’s wrong!” she said.
“You’re sending a message out to people saying, ‘It’s OK! Stay fat! Get diabetes. Everybody die. Lose your fingers.’”
VogueShe added that Dunham didn’t deserve to appear on the cover based on her physical appearance.
Ouch.
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised, though. Rivers is no stranger to making catty remarks at our favourite on-screen stars.
In December, she told Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence to “grow up” (in the least mature way possible, we might add.)
She’s also previously called singer and actress Jessica Simpson fat and Modern Family favourite Sofia Vergara stupid.
As a Hollywood veteran who overcame barriers against women in comedy early in her career, Rivers could’ve chosen to be a role model or mentor to all of these young women. But instead, she’s chosen to diminish and shame them.
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Just by chance I picked up my copy of American Vogue for February today and thought how lovely and natural and 'normal' (meaning 'normal' like those of us out here in the real world, not the world of Anna Wintour) Lena looked, compared to the stick figures for which Vogue seems to have a penchant. Then I see that the April Vogue has Kim Kardashian on the cover, another young lady who rejoices in a lovely, curvy figure and I begin to think there may be hope for us all after all.
I dont agree with body shaming anybody - whether tall short, fat or thin. Shaming should just not happen. However I do have to say that when we are looking at extremes - whether on the super skinny level or the overweight level - it is not good for anyone to hold this up as a role model to anyone. Joan is right in some respects which is if everyone is loud and proud about carrying extra weight that can cause diabetes and other serious weight related illnesses what is the difference between that and super skinny women that inspire other women to starve themselves? However that said I would not put Lena in the overweight category. She looks like a normal girl to me! Perhaps its time we just stop passing comment on womens bodies all together!