Last night, Lena Dunham posted her latest magazine cover for Tentaciones magazine. "I am genuinely honored to be on your cover and so happy you licensed a pic by @ruvenafanador, who always makes me feel gorgeous," she wrote on her Instagram. "BUT this is NOT what my body has ever looked like or will ever look like—the magazine has done more than the average Photoshop."
The magazine sent her an uncropped version and posted an open letter, saying it did not retouch the photo. Tentaciones obtained it from a photo agency; the portrait was from an Entertainment Weekly shoot she did in 2013 (that, presumably, was retouched then). She posted their image, apologized to the outlet, then went on to say Photoshopped covers of her need to end, period.
"Maybe it's turning 30. Maybe it's seeing my candidate of choice get bashed as much for having a normal woman's body as she is for her policies. Maybe it's getting sick and realizing ALL that matters is that this body work, not that it be milky, white, and slim," Lena wrote. "But I want something different now…time to get to the bottom of this in a bigger way. Time to walk the talk."
