Lena Dunham Reveals How She ''Failed'' at Halloween as a Kid With Amazing Throwback Pictures

"I have never been cooed at, kissed, or celebrated for my wit and style on Halloween. In fact, each Halloween has been more demoralizing than the last"

By Bruna Nessif Oct 28, 2015 11:09 PMTags
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Lena Dunham's journey through Halloween's past is pretty wonderful to see.

The Girls creator's latest Lenny Newsletter was a festive one, and it took us all on a journey of her childhood costumes to illustrate that "Halloween Is for Amateurs."

After describing what would seem like the perfect costume, Dunham reassures us that, "I am telling you this because I have spent 29 years failing at Halloween. I have never been cooed at, kissed, or celebrated for my wit and style on Halloween. In fact, each Halloween has been more demoralizing than the last."

And what better way to strengthen that statement than with visual evidence? Exactly.

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So, granted it's not yet Thursday, but Dunham graced us with an early gift of a variety of throwback pictures.

"My mom went to the hobby store and bought me a bunch of plastic snakes that she super-glued to my leotard. As they started to fall off, so did my spirit," she captioned one photo, while writing on another, "My dad sewed this mer-tail all by himself, which is incredibly sweet, but the fact that the tail emerged from my butt rather than wrapping around my legs left a lot of people confused."

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Lena also admitted that one year, she "sold out" and dressed up as a leopard. "I was normal, and no one gave a s--t. I skipped the party in the school gym and the next day walked around my living room dressed as a fortune teller for an audience of no one."

After admiring more of her childhood costumes, we got to the actress' teenage years, and another run at being a mermaid. "I was pretty sure this look would lead to the loss of my virginity, but mermaids don't have vaginas, and painting my face blue was perhaps a bridge too far." LOL!

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The last time Lena dressed up was in 2011 for an industry party where she went as Louis C.K. Her plan didn't work out.

After running to an acquaintance for comfort, Dunham had to say show she was and his response was: "Oh, Jesus, I thought you were a very short computer programmer from the Valley."

She continued, "It only got worse from there, when a drunken starlet dressed as, you guessed it, a cat asked me what I was meant to be. 'I am Louis CK.' 'Who's that?'"

So with all of these failed attempts, the 29-year-old isn't going to dress up this year, right? Wrong! She's taking another crack at it and feels pretty confident about her decision: "I'm going as something newsy, sexy, and cool: a Planned Parenthood doctor."

Sorry, no sexy cat this year (or ever).

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If you wanted to go as Lena Dunham for Halloween, you could've gotten an authentic sweater!