Lena Dunham Recalls How Her Body Was ‘Dissected’ During the Girl Era

Lena Dunham will not be the voice – or the protagonist – of this generation.

Indeed, the 38-year-old actress recently opened up about why her experience starring in the 2010s comedy-drama Girls will prevent her from leading her new Netflix series Too much.

“I didn’t want to have another experience like the one I had around Girls at this stage of my life,” she explained. New Yorker in an interview published July 9. “Physically, I just wasn’t ready to have my body dissected again.”

And the writer, who described in detail how she suffered both physically and mentally while working on Girlsnoted that instead she wrote her new series—a somewhat autobiographical story about a 30-year-old American woman who moves to England—for Khaki star Meg Stalter.

“It was a tough choice,” she admitted. “Not to choose Meg — because I knew I wanted Meg — but to admit it to myself. I used to think that winning meant you just kept doing it and didn’t care what anyone else thought. I forgot that winning is really just about standing up for yourself and doing what you have to do to keep going.”