By . Misty White Sidell . PUBLISHED: . 11:29 EST, 21 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 14:28 EST, 21 February 2014 . Lena Dunham has finally opened up about her unretouched Vogue photos, which were leaked by Jezebel last month after the site placed a $10,000 bounty on the original images. The 27-year-old creator of Girls told Grantland editor Bill Simmons in a podcast released on Thursday that she was ‘kind of scared’ to see the images, but after noticing how they were minimally retouched she ‘felt completely respected by Vogue.’ ‘They smoothed a line here and shaved off part of my neck,’ Miss Dunham said of the changes the magazine made to her cover shoot. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Speaking out: Lena Dunham has finally opened up about Jezebel seeking her unretouched Vogue images for a $10,000 prize, saying that it 'felt gross' She . elaborated, saying: ‘I felt like, “Thank you for removing the one line . from my face because I’m 27 years old and shouldn’t have that there and I . appreciate this.”’ Rather . than unearth a great discrepancy between reality and distortion, as was . Jezebel’s intention, the release of Vogue’s unretouched images actually . drew a large backlash. Readers . and media outlets alike questioned the site’s famously feminist morals, . as well as its motives for seeking out, and later releasing, the . photos. Miss Dunham herself called the stunt ‘messed up.’ ‘I . think Jezebel can be really smart and funny… I think it’s just like, . once you’ve been attacked in that way, it’s hard to enjoy, once you feel . like they’ve made such a monumental error in their approach to . feminism. I just can’t be half-in… It felt gross,’ she explained. At . the time, Styleite labelled Jezebel as ‘vindictive’ for ‘handing over a . $10,000 reward to whichever underpaid assistant in Vogue's photo . department risks their job to cough up the photos’. Writers . at Crushable felt similarly, saying that the site’s move was ‘so far . from okay (delete extra unneeded sentence) ... there’s nothing wrong . with wanting to look better than your best when you’re doing a Vogue . photo shoot. In the same way there’s nothing wrong with Lena Dunham . getting decked out at award shows.’ Proud of her form: Miss Dunham has never been one to shy away from displaying her body, and often appears in various states of undress on her HBO TV show . Website SheKnows also wrote a story with the headline, ‘Lena Dunham's Vogue cover: Was the photo editing that bad?’ An . outpouring of Twitter response even saw Jezebel users attest that they . were boycotting the site in protest of its hunt for Miss Dunham’s . photos. Miss Dunham, . herself, does not feel all that dissimilar: ‘Instead of going, “Hey we . kind of f***** up, these photos are not that retouched. Lena go enjoy . the Vogue spread that you’ve been excited about since you were eight . years old,” they were like, “She is not retouched, but she could have . been.”’ The young actress . and director says that she felt the site’s handing of the photos ‘was . this weird political maneuvering that I had a lot of trouble . respecting.’ The photos in . question were featured in Vogue’s February issue – one which is already . being switched out at newsstands for the magazine’s March issue staring . Rihanna.
The 27-year-old creator of Girls also noted that Jezebel's $10,000 bounty on the images was a 'monumental error of feminism’ and 'felt gross'
By . Misty White Sidell . PUBLISHED: . 11:29 EST, 21 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 14:28 EST, 21 February 2014 . Lena Dunham has finally opened up about her unretouched Vogue photos, which were leaked by Jezebel last month after the site placed a $10,000 bounty on the original images. The 27-year-old creator of Girls told Grantland editor Bill Simmons in a podcast released on Thursday that she was ‘kind of scared’ to see the images, but after noticing how they were minimally retouched she ‘felt completely respected by Vogue.’ ‘They smoothed a line here and shaved off part of my neck,’ Miss Dunham said of the changes the magazine made to her cover shoot. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Speaking out: Lena Dunham has finally opened up about Jezebel seeking her unretouched Vogue images for a $10,000 prize, saying that it 'felt gross' She . elaborated, saying: ‘I felt like, “Thank you for removing the one line . from my face because I’m 27 years old and shouldn’t have that there and I . appreciate this.”’ Rather . than unearth a great discrepancy between reality and distortion, as was . Jezebel’s intention, the release of Vogue’s unretouched images actually . drew a large backlash. Readers . and media outlets alike questioned the site’s famously feminist morals, . as well as its motives for seeking out, and later releasing, the . photos. Miss Dunham herself called the stunt ‘messed up.’ ‘I . think Jezebel can be really smart and funny… I think it’s just like, . once you’ve been attacked in that way, it’s hard to enjoy, once you feel . like they’ve made such a monumental error in their approach to . feminism. I just can’t be half-in… It felt gross,’ she explained. At . the time, Styleite labelled Jezebel as ‘vindictive’ for ‘handing over a . $10,000 reward to whichever underpaid assistant in Vogue's photo . department risks their job to cough up the photos’. Writers . at Crushable felt similarly, saying that the site’s move was ‘so far . from okay (delete extra unneeded sentence) ... there’s nothing wrong . with wanting to look better than your best when you’re doing a Vogue . photo shoot. In the same way there’s nothing wrong with Lena Dunham . getting decked out at award shows.’ Proud of her form: Miss Dunham has never been one to shy away from displaying her body, and often appears in various states of undress on her HBO TV show . Website SheKnows also wrote a story with the headline, ‘Lena Dunham's Vogue cover: Was the photo editing that bad?’ An . outpouring of Twitter response even saw Jezebel users attest that they . were boycotting the site in protest of its hunt for Miss Dunham’s . photos. Miss Dunham, . herself, does not feel all that dissimilar: ‘Instead of going, “Hey we . kind of f***** up, these photos are not that retouched. Lena go enjoy . the Vogue spread that you’ve been excited about since you were eight . years old,” they were like, “She is not retouched, but she could have . been.”’ The young actress . and director says that she felt the site’s handing of the photos ‘was . this weird political maneuvering that I had a lot of trouble . respecting.’ The photos in . question were featured in Vogue’s February issue – one which is already . being switched out at newsstands for the magazine’s March issue staring . Rihanna.
placed a $10,000 bounty on the original images. The 27-year-old creator of Girls told Grantland $10,000 prize, saying that it 'felt gross' She .