As many you know, I try to look on the more positive side of life and try to be objective about the celebrities I write about here, but there’s just something about Lena Dunham that rubs me the wrong way. I think it’s her excessive need for TMI-ing everybody, and the content of that information. Or maybe it’s because her mumblecore-y projects like Tiny Furniture and Girls were SO boring. Or, maybe because her portrayal of Valerie Solanas on American Horror Story was the worst thing about the season so far (with the exception of Evan Peters’ non-blue roots. Pick a color, Kai. Sheesh). And, judging from the comments I’ve seen on other posts about Lena, I have a feeling I’m not alone in my sentiments.
But, I digress. Early Thursday morning, the 31-year-old actress took to Twitter, sharing with her followers that she thought her longtime boyfriend, fun. guitarist Jack Antonoff, was going to pop the question. However she discovered she needs to improve her eavesdropping skills, as there’s no proposal on the horizon. Lena first tweeted, “I thought jack was furtively planning a proposal to me with his sister and he just admitted I actually caught him ‘talking shit’ about me!”
I thought jack was furtively planning a proposal 💍 to me with his sister and he just admitted I actually caught him "talking shit" about me!
— 💎 Lena Dunham 💎 (@lenadunham) November 2, 2017
After that, she tweeted, “Now I literally can’t sleep cuz I’m laughing too hard and I am also keeping him awake. 5.5 years, no rock and you know what? It’s real nice.”
Now I literally can't sleep cuz I'm laughing too hard and I am also keeping him awake. 5.5 years, no rock and you know what? It's real nice.
— 💎 Lena Dunham 💎 (@lenadunham) November 2, 2017
She later explained the misunderstanding, saying that Jack and his sister “were huddled and I heard him say ‘Lena’ and ‘finger’ so obviously it seemed like an engagement ring talk.”
Also they were huddled and I heard him say "Lena" and "finger" so obviously it seemed like an engagement ring talk
— 💎 Lena Dunham 💎 (@lenadunham) November 2, 2017
And, if Jack does ever decide to make it legal, Lena has expressed her disregard for a specific piece of engagement bling, tweeting, “Anyway I want Cardi B’s ring.” Have you SEEN Cardi B’s ring? I wouldn’t be able to lift up my hand with that thing on. I’m sure Lena’s kidding.
Anyway I want Cardi B's ring
— 💎 Lena Dunham 💎 (@lenadunham) November 2, 2017
Initially, Lena vowed not to get married until marriage rights were extended to the LGBTQ community – and wrote about her position in a July 2015 New Yorker essay. Same-sex marriage was legalized that same year, but Lena’s still got a naked ring finger. Hmm. I understand that you don’t have to put a ring on it to have a successful relationship in this day and age, but Lena might be getting a little antsy about walking down the aisle – or is it just me?
Photos: WENN.com, Getty Images
try hard
Yep. Two insufferable hipsters
Exactly, Nicole. Well said.
yeah it usually seems to be if someone makes a big deal about how it’s not a big deal… It is a big deal. Plus she’s talked about Taylor song about them being her wedding song and I just get the impression that she’s waiting for him to make a move.
Dear God …..
I think she’s probably itchy but I’m not sure it has anything to do with a wedding. Don’t worry though, if the cause of the itching starts to trend online, she’ll tell you allllll about it.
Lena needs to go see her doctor about that itch. I sure hope he gives her a cortisone shot so she’ll shut up.
Why doesn’t she just ask him?
Yeah isnt she the most important feminist in the universe? (at least in her own mind)
Exactly!
I have nothing nice to say so I’ll see my way out!
Right behind you
These comments are cracking me up! 😂
Wait! Please don’t go. It’s no fun being bitchy by myself. It’s Lena after all. There’s so much good material.
Unless there is some future announcement arrangement between them this is awkward as hell. I could never put myself out there like that but this one is thirsty and seems to be missing the self-aware accessory bundle. Jack is very talented though.
I don’t like her – but I did find this kind of amusing. It’s one of the less embarrassing Lena stories, and they obviously care about each other if they’ve been together this long with very different schedules.
I love love love “Don’t Take the Money” by Bleachers. I only found out like two weeks ago that he’s Lena’s bf.
Well if he’s been with her 5.5 years, this won’t be anything new to him. I am super private so everything she shares just makes me cringe, like why the hell would you tell people that?? I wouldn’t tell my best friend a third of the stuff she happily yammers away about in public. But obviously that hasn’t been a dealbreaker for him in the past, and this is pretty mild for her really.
It’s beyond obvious though that she’d really, really like to get engaged please. Like soon, tick tock tick tock.
How messed up is Jack Antonoff that he would want to be with let alone marry Lena? Lena is crazy and needy. I’m cringing for her with these tweets
Needy is not as bad as her racism.
Awww, her liberal racism is right in line with her white lady feminism.
Why do so many celebrities tweet about everything in their personal lives? If I was feeling silly about being wrong for thinking that my bf was going to propose, I wouldn’t tweet about it.
Well… we all just read an article about it, so I think that’s your answer.
it’s not even just celebs, it’s everyone. it’s the reason why i don’t social media, i literally don’t give a crap what most people do (it’s all very boring or very ridiculous anyway).
+1 Ell et al
I love the over explanation of how it doesn’t bother her that he didn’t ask and how funny it was that he was “talking shit” about her. If you have to spend three or four tweets explaining why it doesn’t bother you, it probably bothers you.
And that IS funny.
Sigh. I’ll take a one way ticket to hell, please. First class, window seat.
There are no first class tickets to hell….or windows…the journey is the start of the hell….
She knows it’s coming. It’s why she can joke about this. I don’t even buy it. He probably was talking to her sister about it.
Of course it bothers her. I wonder if a number of her friends or relatives have gotten married recently. That always seems to spark the desire to get married oneself, or at least to be able to show off all the trappings of such on social media. Oh well, he’s used to her behavior by now and it must not bother him or he’d be long gone.
I know a lot of people love huge diamond rings, but I think rings like the one Cardi B has look like tacky costume jewelry. It’s so expensive and it just looks fake, but each to their own I guess.
Yeah. If you’re going to go with a huge rock, absolutely everything about the design, the setting etc. has to be beyond perfect. If it’s perfect, it can look beautiful. If it’s not 100% perfect, it looks like it came out of a gumball machine and is a total waste of a pretty rock.
Cardi’s ring is tacky as hell. Which, to be fair, so is she and she owns that, so it’s probably perfect.
I agree. They rarely look real to me and it takes a special kind of glamor to pull off enormous gemstone jewelry without it looking like a costume piece. Besides, it’s so impractical. You’d have to take it off all the time for pretty much everything, and it’d get in the way and caught on clothing every other minute.
Something nice: they both have really pretty eyes.
Ha, ha Yael: you sound as sweet as the lady who tries to give Edward Scissorhands a bit of a makeover!! She’s searching desperately to comment on one nice feature!! 😁
🙂 I do try
That’s funny you should say that since Lena wrote a very anti semitic article about her boyfriend and one of the things she said as a joke ehm was that people should guess if she’s talking about a dog or a jew and said something like “he has such pretty eyes” am i talking about my dog or my jewish boyfriend. It was weird and passive aggressive and the jewish community were not happy they condemned her and she had to apologize.
I am NOT giving her a pass here but isn’t she also Jewish?? And given that Jewish people were compared to dogs during Nazi Germany, yikes!!! I can understand why people were offended. But it seems as though she is offensive to all people, ugh.
Oh, I didn’t know that. I just genuinely think that they both have very nice eyes. I’m Jewish (my name probably gives that away?) and I didn’t mean to make a call-back to one of her (many) ill-thought-out comments, especially not an antisemitic one.
She does seem to be in a state of constant apology for something she’s said. Maybe she could work on why that always happens. My advice would be to definitely work on it while gazing into the mirror at her own pretty eyes or at her boyfriend’s pretty eyes. A future win-win for everyone.
She looks nice in the first picture. It’s rare to see a picture of her where she isn’t making a weird face, which I think she totally does on purpose to get negative press. I wasn’t aware she wrote an antisemitic piece but that comes as no surprise. Her writing is so ignorant and self-indulgent, like everything she does is just so adorable. Of course she thought she could make antisemitism cute. She sucks.
I’m embarrassed for her. JFC
Here’s my nice comment: at least she brought us Adam Driver.
(Am I the only one who doesn’t know what “mumblecore” means?)
Isn’t mumblecore a type of tuna:)
Lol! 🐟
In 2017 this…sounds like she is doing a “waity”, oh wow.
Maybe he is planning on proposing and is throwing her off by saying that’s not what they were talking about? Regardless…how awkward.
He’s not going to marry her. I used to be a fun. fan and he always struck me as an opportunist. He seems to glom on to whatever woman can open doors for him or introduce him to other well connected people. When he started dating Lena I didn’t understand why and thought it was cute that he was giving her a chance when he literally had hundreds of attractive women around him trying to get his attention. Then someone pointed out to me his pattern of dating women that were capable of boosting his profile or women who were connected. Once the pattern was pointed out to me it was pretty easy to see.
Ouch! Not sure why she’d put this out there? Any attention is good attention i guess?
She bothers me because she tends to criticize other women for not being feminist enough and then turns around and does something similar to what she criticised. However, when she does it, it’s being body positive. For example, her dancing around in her underwear – If a model had done that, Lena Dunham would be the first to criticize her.
You don’t turn little girls into feminists by attacking their favorite singers, actors or instagram models. You do it by standing up for eachother no matter what the “body type.” Further, there are more important issues to fight against. Taking on the men who want to destroy Planned Parenthood comes to mind.