Lena Dunham Covers Bazaar’s Daring Issue—& Not Because She’s Naked All the Time
That she likes to take off her clothes might seem like the obvious reason Lena Dunham was chosen to cover Harper’s Bazaar’s “Daring Issue” — but it’s the wrong one.
“Daring to me is women who make strong choices in the face of adversity,” the Girls star revealed. “I’m inspired by women who redefine the idea of who she can be and say no when they’re faced with bulls***.” The Lenny Letter co-founder cites her mother, artist Laurie Simmons, and sister, Grace Dunham, a radical queer woman, as individuals who have inspired her to take chances.
Lena Dunham on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar’s November issue. Photography by Nathaniel Goldberg
But as she noted in a personal essay for the magazine, it’s also the woman who picks her kids up from school every day despite a breast cancer diagnosis; a female politician saying, “Yes, I do believe I can run this country,” regardless of institutional sexism; and the transgender teenagers who are so committed to showing their true selves that they’d rather sleep in a homeless shelter than remain in the care of an un-accepting family.
“I hope you will allow yourself those moments of daring every day, whether they take the form of a skirt you never dreamed you could pull off or a dream you never thought you could share,” Dunham writes. “This way lies freedom.”
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