Lena Dunham is launching a newsletter for young women

The Girls writer and actress will advise millennial women on feminism, health, style, politics and friendship
Lena Dunham's witticisms will soon be landing in your inbox (Picture: Getty)
Liz Connor15 July 2015

Not content with writing and starring in HBO’s critically acclaimed series Girls, penning a best selling book and being Taylor Swift’s best pal, Lena Dunham is set to expand her brand once again this year, aiming her creative harpoon this time at the digital publishing industry.

Along with Girls showrunner Jenni Konner, Dunham will launch Lenny in September, a weekly email newsletter that will offer advice and essays to young women.

The newsletter will publish a collection of voices on everything from politics to feminism to style, aimed at women ages 18 to 34 and, according to its website, the project will be ‘an email newsletter where there’s no such thing as too much information.’

According to Buzzfeed, Dunham and Konner are funding the newsletter themselves, but are hoping to expand the brand to include an e-commerce platform that will sell hand picked works from female artists and designers.

"We want people who have totally diverse interests," said the Girls star. "People who want to talk about radical politics but also want to talk about fashion and also want to talk about Rihanna, and also understand that all of those things can be happening at the same time."

So how do the pair feel about being compared with Gwyneth Paltrow, who arguably kick-started the celebrity newsletter?

"We love Goop," Lena said, talking about Gwyneth Paltrow's website. "Jenni and I have always been obsessed with Goop. We feel strongly that even if some of it is aspirational, it's aspirations like 'I want to know how to take care of my body and soufflé something.'"

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