Lena Dunham removed the shirt off her back to help a cause dear to her heart...and apparently forgot to bring a change of clothes.
On Thursday, the 29-year-old Girls star and creator attended the Planned Parenthood Politics, Sex and Cocktails fundraiser in Los Angeles. The organization is currently in danger of losing its some $500 million in federal funding after an anti-abortion group released edited videos they say shows officials discussing illegal sales of aborted fetal tissue. Planned Parenthood has denied any wrongdoing.
At the event, Dunham, who runs a feminist newsletter, auctioned off a sweater she wore, a maroon one with a picture of a woman's reproductive system. She had paired it with a short skirt, as seen in a photo she posted on Instagram.
"The @plannedparenthood event in LA tonight was so crazy inspiring," she wrote alongside another pic, showing her from the neck down, sporting a cleavage-baring black bra. "I also spontaneously auctioned the ovary patterned sweater off my body for a nice 4k to benefit PP... Had to walk home in my skivvies and a men's coat #worthit #onbrand #standwithPP."
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Dunham, who often appears naked on Girls, occasionally posts scantily clad pics on social media.
Dunham is also often the target of body shamers. She said in a recent interview on the Re/code podcast that she no longer runs her own Twitter account due to abuse.
"I don't want them seeing a picture of me in my boyfriend's boxers and then be told I'm obese and anyone who looks like me is repulsive and I deserve to be dragged around and smacked," she said.
Dunham and fun. guitarist Jack Antonoff, 31, have been together for more than three years. She recently talked about their relationship in an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that aired this week.
"So, it was funny, the day that gay marriage became legal across this country, we were thrilled, we were celebrating and then, suddenly, the texts just started coming from our friends, from our mothers, from our exercise instructors, being like, 'Finally, it's your time!'" she said. "And we kind of looked at each other and we were like, 'Oh God, what have we done?'"
Dunham had said she and Antonoff wouldn't tie the knot until same-sex marriage was made legal in all 50 states. The Supreme Court legalized it in June. In a New Yorker op-ed published weeks later, the actress revealed the two decided not to talk about marriage for a while.
"I'm excited to marry him at some point but it felt like a lot of pressure to just go for it that day," Dunham told Ellen DeGeneres. "And then I did start to ask, I was like, 'Are there a lot of heterosexuals using this as an excuse to avoid commitment?' And I think the answer is 'yes.' Because, you know, we own a dog together, we own a home together, but the marriage thing is a big deal."
She is, however, still thinking about her future wedding.
"And I also have to say, like, I feel intimidated because I don't want to you know, espouse any stereotypes, but gay people are kind of killing it at weddings right now. They're kind of winning at weddings. So, I don't want to go in and just pale in comparison." "I have a lot of big ideas, which I'm sharing with Jack as he's falling asleep, and he goes, 'Maybe you can talk about it tomorrow or in five or six years.'"