Here we have more pictures from last night’s MET Gala. The theme was Punk, although not that many celebrities went with the theme. One who certainly did was Sarah Jessica Parker, who showed up in a faux-hawk headdress. I love it – I think if anyone can rock it, it’s her.

The headdress is by famed milliner Philip Treacy, with Christian Louboutin boots and a Giles Deacon dress.

Madonna’s ensemble was by Givenchy. She definitely looked punk!

Rooney Mara went bridal in this white lace gown by Givenchy.

Gisele Bundchen wore this black and metal dress, I’m not sure who it’s by. Her husband, Tom Brady, stands behind her.

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Here are some more photos from last night’s Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People Gala in NYC. Claire Danes was on hand to honor recipient Lena Dunham. Apparently Claire wrote the article on Lena for the magazine.

Claire wore this UGLY dress by Lanvin. She is so gorgeous (even though in every picture she looks like she’s being electrocuted), why would she pick such an awful dress? Speaking of awful, so is Lena Dunham’s Saint Laurent dress. I mean that looks just plain awful on her.

Olivia Munn wore a mustard Michael Kors dress, which looks great.

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Lena Dunham, the 26-year-old actress who created and stars in ‘Girls,’ is perfectly happy with the way she looks. Despite once being called a “little fat girl” by Howard Stern, the actress insists she wouldn’t want a body like a Victoria’s Secret model.

In a new interview with Playboy Magazine, the actress reveals “There would be all kinds of weird challenges to deal with. I don’t think I’d like it very much.”

Here are some more bits from Lena’s interview with Playboy:

On the gender divide: “I never chalk up anything to the gender divide and say, “Well, that’s just a male thing.” I hate the conventional wisdom that men are supposedly complete pieces of s–t and it’s our job as women to put up with them. Men are just as sensitive and easily victimized as women are, but there’s not as much of an infrastructure for expressing it. That drives me nuts. We’re all humans and doing human stuff. We’d have a better world if everyone had someone they could pay for talk therapy.”

Writing male roles: “Just as careful as when writing female roles. Saying that women have been written as sassy best friends or slutty girlfriends since the beginning of time so now guys deserve whatever comes to them is not an acceptable excuse—even though it’s amazing to me that Hollywood persists in writing these two-dimensional female characters who don’t really exist. No wonder it’s hard for actresses to find parts that are meaty enough to connect with. It’s important to me to create fully formed characters who don’t feel just like good guys, villains, creeps or sluts. I want it to feel real. I want my male friends to feel just as much of a connection to my work as my female friends do.”

The feminism of Girls: “On Girls I like being a mouthpiece for the issues I think young females face today. It’s always shocking when people question whether it’s a feminist show. How could a show about women exploring women not be? Feminism isn’t a dirty word. It’s not like we’re a deranged group who think women should take over the planet, raise our young on our own and eliminate men from the picture. Feminism is about women having all the rights that men have.”

What if she woke up and had the body of a Victoria’s Secret model: “I’d be really disoriented and wonder what had happened in the night. Which enemy had dragged me to the doctor? I don’t think I’d like it very much. There would be all kinds of weird challenges to deal with that I don’t have to deal with now. I don’t want to go through life wondering if people are talking to me because I have a big rack. Not being the babest person in the world creates a nice barrier. The people who talk to you are the people who are interested in you. It must be a big burden in some ways to look that way and be in public. That said, I probably would want to see if I could get free food at restaurants. Then I’d call a doctor and see if she could return me to my former situation.”

She’s a romantic: “When I was younger I liked men who gave me some guff. I liked badasses with hearts of gold, though they often ended up not having a heart of gold. They were a little like the Adam character on Girls. Now I’m much more into someone who is interesting and open with his emotions, has a really good sense of humor and a passion for what he does, wants to hang out with my parents and doesn’t want to stay out too late. If I can get excited imagining funny things he did as a kid, there’s a pretty good chance I’m in love with him. It’s a sad day when you stop believing in the idea of having a soul mate or having someone who understands you deeply and loves you eternally. I’m a pretty unorthodox girl, but I guess people might be surprised to learn that despite what some of the characters on the show are doing, I remain an eternal romantic with a desire to hear all the things girls like to hear said to them.”

Her favorite items at the grocery store: “I cannot get out of the market without six trashy magazines and seven packs of gum. I wish I could resist those things. Oh, and sometimes a Cadbury Creme Egg, if it’s in season.”

How she learned about sex: “I think I was five. A girl at school explained it to me. I didn’t believe her because it seemed so barbaric, so I went home and asked my parents if it was true. They sat down together and explained sex to me. My parents were sensitive. They said, “Your dad and I did this so that you could get made.” They gave me the male and female perspective. That was the traumatic part. I remember thinking, I don’t want to learn this, and I definitely don’t want to learn this looking at the faces of both of you. I wish one of them had taken the job and come into my bedroom alone. But I asked. It was because Amanda DiLauro told me, so it was really her fault.

On Girls not being representative of a wider demographic: “I think that’s a valid criticism, but we can’t let that erase someone’s ability to tell a personal story. While being racist and promoting inequality are crimes that should be punished, the sin of writing two Jewish girl characters and two Waspy characters feels less egregious to me. I’ve tried to be elegant about it and receive the criticism, and I understand what’s hard about it. At the same time I’m like, Really?”

What’s in her purse: “I still keep a paper date planner, which seems pretty old-school. I always have a novel. The stray-vitamin situation is pretty out of hand. But most surprising? A spoon. I’m always dragging one around. It’s a metal spoon. A plastic spoon makes sense. A metal spoon from your house makes it look like you’re going to commit a spoon murder.”

I love Girls, and I thought this was a really interesting interview!

I’ve been really glad that this season of Girls wasn’t ALL about Lena like last season. Lena really wrote some interesting plot-lines for her other castmembers, and I appreciate that she made it – not all about her.

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Lena Dunham, the creator and star of HBO’s Girls, lands the March cover of Rolling Stone. In the new issue, Dunham tells senior writer Brian Hiatt about her lifelong struggles with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, her childhood fear of sex, her reaction to criticisms about the show’s lack of diversity – and much more. “It’s funny to me that I’m writing a show that people consider to be the voice of twentysomething people,” she says. “Because I don’t feel that connected to it all the time.”

One comment Lena feels she has to address, is the comment her character Hannah said in an episode, where she called herself “the voice of a generation.”

“I don’t think I ever imagined that it would haunt me the way it is,” Dunham said in a recent interview. “The character was on opium! I think the ‘voice of a generation’ concept was lost with beatnik literature. Because of globalization and increasing populations, my generation kind of consists of so many different voices that need so many different kinds of attention. But if my writing can show what it’s like to be young, I’m happy.”

I love ‘Girls’ but I’m getting a bit tired of Lena. I know I’ve said this before. I think her show is amazing, but I feel like she’s just EVERYWHERE lately. She is brilliant, I’ll give her that.

It’s official, Lena Dunham is HBO’s leading lady!

According to Deadline, “Girls” creator Lena Dunham is teaming with Jenni Konner to produce another New York based HBO show.

The new program will be titled “All Dressed Up And Everywhere To Go,” and it will reportedly center on the life of 85-year-old Bergdorf Goodman personal shopper Betty Halbreich.

With the frequency that Dunham and Konner tweet at each other, it’s no secret that the showrunners love working together. But a few years ago, Konner’s only knowledge of Dunham was that she was the mastermind behind the indie film “Tiny Furniture.”

“I just saw ‘Tiny Furniture’ and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I’m the distributor of it. I was making copies and giving them out,” Konner told HuffPost TV. “The first person who told me about it was ["New Girl" creator] Liz Meriwether … I was like, ‘What? This girl is incredible.’ It never even occurred to me that I would work with her.”

I love “Girls”, I really do, but I’m worried I’m going to get sick of Lena Dunham. Anyone else feel the same way? I feel like she’s so over-exposed these days. It’s just sooooooo much.

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Lena Dunham, Golden Globe winner of her TV show ‘Girls’, has a couple issues with Rihanna. The 26-year-old creator of the hit HBO show takes aim at Rihanna during a recent interview, and accused the singer of not being a better role model.

Lena sat down with Alec Baldwin during his podcast “Here’s the Thing” on January 21. The actress said the 24-year-old singer’s behavior isn’t something her fans should try and copy.  “[Fame is] an amazing thing and it’s a platform that you have to take seriously. Which is why sometimes, it’s like. . . I used to be really into Rihanna, that pop star, and then it’s like — again, I don’t want to ever throw stones from my glass house — but I follow her on Instagram and I just think about how many little girls beyond what I could even comprehend are obsessed with Rihanna.”

She continued, “Like, you know, she left Barbados, she’s had this amazing career, she’s won a Grammy. . . She’s talented. And then she gets back together with Chris Brown and posts a million pictures of them smoking marijuana together on a bed. And it cracks my heart in half in a way that makes me feel like I’m 95 years old.”

Lena admits that she’s “had to become more conscious about what I say and what I promote, not in a way that stifles me, but just in a way where I realize now that there are 17-year-old girls who come up to me and tell me that the show means a lot to them.”

It’s not the first time the multitalented comedy star has criticized the on-again couple, who first split in February 2009 after Brown assaulted the “Umbrella” singer just before the Grammys. When the musical duo (who have since reunited romantically in real life) released two sexually explicit songs together in February 2012, Dunham tweeted, “Rihanna and Chris Brown’s new duets make me want to go hide under Gloria Steinem’s bed for 72 hours.”

Dunham is hardly the first high-profile star to criticize the controversial couple: Miranda Lambert took aim at Brown after he won an award and performed twice at the Grammys in 2012. “I just have to speak my mind, because where I come from, beating up on a woman is never OK. So that’s why my daddy taught me early on in life how to use a shotgun,” Lambert told concertgoers in Amherst, Mass.

In a series of tweets, Lambert, 29, added: “I don’t get it. He beat on a girl. . .Not cool that we act like that didn’t happen. He needs to listen to “Gunpowder and Lead” and be put back in his place.”

I agree with Lena completely. I follow Rihanna on Instagram, and while I do believe people have the right to do or say whatever they want (for the most part), when you’re in the public eye like that you have got to be careful. People look up to you and DO try to emulate you. It’s a scary thing, and it must be a huge burden. But you’ve gotta remember that when you’re as big as Rihanna, you just have to.

Lena Dunham was the bigger person, and called into the Howard Stern show on Wednesday so that the two could clear the air over Howard’s comments about her weight.

Earlier this month, the shock jock referred to Dunham as a “little fat girl who kinda looks like Jonah Hill, and she keeps taking her clothes off, and it kind of feels like rape.”

In his conversation with Dunham, Stern apologized for his earlier remarks. “I did say those things [but] I guess I just wanna tell you that I love you and I think you’re terrific.” He said he changed his mind about Dunham and the show after watching more than a couple episodes of “Girls.”

Stern mentioned that he started to compare Dunham to Woody Allen after watching the scene in which Adam (Adam Driver) is on the phone with his sister and says, “Yo skank, where you at? Getting that p**** pounded?”

Dunham cited her earlier interview with David Letterman and said, “I was excited [about Stern's comments] and extolling the virtues of your particular brand of free speech.” She added that she enjoyed the “little fat chick” label, but insisted, “I’m not that fat, Howard.” After noting Stern’s slim wife, Dunham joked, “I’m not super thin, but I’m thin, for like, Detroit.”

Stern commended her efforts to “play up the fat angle with the jiggling of the belly and I love that.” Clarifying his comments further, he added, “You’re not obese or anything.”

Later on in the conversation, Stern questioned how much of “Girls” was ripped from Dunahm’s real life, asking, “Did some dude go to bed with you and grab your belly and start shaking it?” “I think I actually did have a belly shaker in my past,” Dunham admitted.

When the conversation came to an end, Stern said, “I actually think it’s funny that this story blew up and I like any kind of publicity; the only person I was concerned about is you … so I certainly apologize to you … and I do really find your show fantastic.”

Dunham said she was happy to talk to Stern, adding, “I feel good that we got to speak.”

It’s a good thing that Howard apologized, because he was totally out of line. I heard the whole thing live, and it just made me cringe. Who says things like that?? Good ol’ Howard! I love Lena, and I like how confident she is with herself. Who cares if she’s not a size 2!

PS: What did you guys think about the ‘Girls’ premiere on Sunday? I LOVED it!!

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