Promised myself I would not let exercise be the first thing to go by the wayside when I got busy with Girls Season 5 and here is why: it has helped with my anxiety in ways I never dreamed possible. To those struggling with anxiety, OCD, depression: I know it’s mad annoying when people tell you to exercise, and it took me about 16 medicated years to listen. I’m glad I did. It ain’t about the ass, it’s about the brain. Thank you @tracyandersonmethod for showing me the light (and @bandierfit is where I bought my Florida mom inspired workout look.) #notsponsored #stillmedicated

A photo posted by Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) on Apr 11, 2015 at 4:47pm PDT

Lena Dunham and Taylor Swift have been “BFFs” for more than a year now. Basically, Taylor Swift moved to New York and developed a super-close group of girlfriends, and Lena is “geeky smart girl” in a group that consists mainly of models, dancers and pop stars. How to put this delicately? Lena doesn’t look like the rest of Swifty’s friends. I doubt Lena really cares that much about it in general. Except she has started to care more about her appearance lately, and she’s been posting Instagrams (like the one above) about her workouts, and she’s been talking about how she’s trying to change her body. This is where Star Magazine developed a theory – what if Taylor Swift was the one nudging Lena to make that kind of change in her life?

Every woman has that one friend who loves to complain about her life – but won’t do anything about it. And for Taylor Swift, that ranting bestie is Lena Dunham, who has become self-conscious of her full-figure.

“Lena has really confided in Taylor about her insecurities,” says an unnamed pal. “And Taylor was sympathetic at first but finally got tired of Lena’s constant pity party and told her that if she was so unhappy with her weight, she needed to get a trainer and do something to make a change!”

Sure enough, Taylor’s straight talk worked, and Lena has admitted recently to being on “a physical fitness kick.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

I think this is the kind of thing that could be true. I like that Swifty isn’t positioned as some kind of Gwyneth Paltrow-esque figure, telling peasants that they’re “fat” as soon as she sees them. I imagine if any of us had to listen to Lena Dunham complain about her life/body/career/whatever for hours on end, we would snap and tell Lena to get off her ass and do something about it. Incidentally, I don’t think Lena is “selling out” by getting a trainer or suddenly wanting to change her body/appearance after years of pushing a body-positive, love-who-you-are message. Then again, I don’t think much of Lena’s ethics – I think she will do, say or write anything for attention, so there’s nothing really to “sell out.”

Oh, and Lena has a feature in May issue of Seventeen – go here to read. I was going to write this up separately, but quite honestly… Lena just grates on my last nerve these days. I used to be able to take her in small doses, but I can’t anymore. The piece is all about how it’s cool to be “weird” and you should never feel the need to “fit in” or “dress like the cool kids” or whatever. Which is an okay message for teenagers, I suppose, except that Lena is a rich, privileged woman who went to private schools and now hangs out with Taylor Swift and Lorde and she works out at Tracy Anderson’s studio. Some of the kids she’s trying to talk to have real problems, you know? Problems that go beyond “wanting to wear ugly clothes and still wanting to be accepted by the cool kids.”

Photos courtesy of Instagram, Fame/Flynet.