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DUNHAM: We’re all very curious at Lenny about what your passions outside of the political arena are. “We had a few wonderful conversations, and arguments, around the dinner table”. Whether it’s on the set of her hit HBO series or at a race for charity, the Oberlin College graduate has never shied away from an opportunity to show how comfortable she is with her body.
CLINTON: Oh my gosh! What is holding you back? “I really appreciate that anybody follows me at all, so I didn’t want to cut off my relationship to it completely, but it truly wasn’t a safe space for me”.
Is that where she hid, er, misplaced the Rose Law Firm billing records?
“It’s extremely chic. I think you should bust it back out“, Dunham said.
“I was being attacked by Justin Bieber fans, I would be upset every day if I was reading tweets from 13-year-old girls that were like ‘You’re fat, and Justin Bieber’s our angel, ‘ but I’m not”. “If somebody had said when I was 20 or 21, ‘Are you gonna marry somebody from Arkansas? Well, a feminist is by definition someone who believes in equal rights”.
Sitting down with the actress to discuss personal convictions as well as politics, Clinton was offered the chance to display to Dunham’s readers her self-proclaimed passion for young people and women’s rights.
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A few critics have described the sitdown as a misstep for Clinton, whose efforts to soften her image have even included doing the Nae Nae on The Ellen Show. They end the interview on this point, actually, with Karan’s idea that one’s shoulders always look good even while the rest of us ages. Hillary Clinton is trying to act like an everyday gal who happens to be seeking the office of the presidency of the United States while looking smug, dropping words like “inchoate” in casual conversation, and talking dresses with a starlet not popular for her fashion sense. “Beforehand, we were so nervous, they were like, ‘OK, when she gets here you can go to the stairs and walk Madame Secretary to her chair.’ And she came down and she was like, ‘What’s up, girls?’ We fully got a hug”. “I’m hardly a fashion icon”, Hillary Clinton laughed. But don’t tell that to Lena Dunham – whose own wardrobe is far worse. “It’s part of being female; we contain multitudes”.
