'Girls' stars Lena Dunham, Jemima Kirke strip down for body-positive photo series
Your favorite Girls are getting up-close and unfiltered.
Anti-Photoshop advocate Lena Dunham and her Girls co-star Jemima Kirke — who have both sported their birthday suits on their critically acclaimed HBO dramedy series — recently posed for the Lonely Girls Project, an ongoing, untouched portrait series created by New Zealand-based lingerie brand Lonely and dedicated to capturing "candid portraits of inspiring women in their natural environments wearing Lonely, their way."
As the brand explained to DazedDigital, the Lonely Girls Project is intended to subvert the objectification of women in traditional advertising: "Instead of being objectified, the women who participate in these campaigns – in this case, Lena and Jemima – are empowered and exhibit real beauty that will hopefully help women everywhere feel a little more liberated."
That commitment to liberating women from toxic beauty ideals makes Dunham's participation in the awesome series especially notable. The actress, writer and producer only recently experienced her own liberation, declaring that she was done allowing herself to be Photoshopped back in March. "If any magazines want to guarantee they'll let my stomach roll show and my reddened cheek make an appearance, I am your girl," she wrote in Lenny Letter. "Anything that will let me be honest with you. But moreover, I want to be honest with me."