Lena Dunham: I’m Not Trying to Be a Role Model!

She’s no stranger to controversy and Lena Dunham has made quite a name for herself by pushing the envelope with her hit HBO show.

The “Girls” starlet told “Makers: Women in Hollywood,” "On Girls, I didn't know if I was necessarily going to get away with casting myself as this lead character. I didn't know if I would get away with some of the just, like, sexual content. I didn't know what was allowed. I just kind of went in thinking everything was allowed, and then it mostly was."

"My work must, on some level, be a reaction to the way sexuality has been fed to me and people of my age, but I'm not coming at it from that perspective. I'm also not coming at it from a perspective of wanting to, like, elicit any shocked reactions. I just want to express honestly what I've seen and felt."

Furthermore, Lena is tired of being targeted differently than her male counterparts- "When someone asks, 'Are the girls on Girls good role models?' I'm like, 'Are the guys on Entourage good role models? Is Larry David a good role model? Is Woody Allen a good role model?’ And I resent being forced into a position of having to represent all of female sexuality."