Speaking on a panel called "Women. Meditation. Stress." hosted by the David Lynch Foundation, Lena Dunham recalled her OCD diagnosis at age 9, and how meditation helps her stay calm and focused.
"I've actually been meditating since I was nine. I've been practicing TM [Transcendental Meditation] since I was nine," she shared on stage. "My mother meditates, my grandmother meditates and my great-grandmother meditated. That might make you think I'm part of like a grand hippie tradition, but these are actually all just neurotic Jewish women who need TM more than anyone," Dunham joked. "I have to tell you, it's pretty charming to see a very well-dressed anxious Jewish woman take a moment at her country club because she needs to meditate."
"When I was around nine, I was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder," the actress and writer explained. "I feel forever grateful that instead of assaulting me with a barrage of medications my mother decided it was time for me to learn to meditate . . . Although when you're nine you have trouble articulating the sort of internal shifts you feel, I know that it made an incredible difference. It made it possible for me to understand what I was going through, and to process what I was going through and to calm down."
That's lovely. (Although I'd like to add a shout-out to the total lifesavingness of medication for a lot of people.) Also, foll0w-up question: CAN LENA DUNHAM FLY. [Us]
Robin Thicke would like you to know that he's the real victim of Miley Cyrus's addiction to twerkahol.
“You didn’t think of it as sexual?” asks Oprah of the V.M.A. performance.
“Well, I was onstage. I didn’t see it,” Thicke, a mere bystander(!), says. “To me, I’m walking out towards Miley, I’m not thinking fun. . . . But you have to remember, I’m singing my butt off. I’m looking up at the sky singing. I’m not really paying attention to all of that. That’s on her. [Uncomfortable laughter.] People ask me, ‘Do you twerk?’ I go, ‘I’m the twerkee. I’m twerked upon.”
(Wait, I thought they planned it all together to "make history"? Right? But emkay.) [VF]
According to "a spy," Madonna wouldn't stop texting during the New York Film Fest premiere of 12 Years a Slave.
...as the movie began, “a blonde in black lace gloves wouldn’t stop texting,” seated in a row with Jason Ritter, J. Alexander and Michael K. Williams.
Finally, an audience member asked the blonde to stop, and the gloved one shot back: “It’s for business . . . enslaver!” During a roaring standing ovation, the blonde ducked out, and, “Sure enough, in black lace gloves, was Madonna!”
But it seems that the Material Girl was a fan of the film. Another spy said that as the credits rolled and she tried to swiftly make a dash from the theater, Madonna heard director McQueen’s voice as he began a Q&A. She was overheard saying, “‘I want to hear Steve speak,’ then rushed back in for the Q&A,” the source said.
"ENSLAVER." [PageSix]
- Here's Graham Norton flaunting his bikini body. [DailyMail]
- I would wear all of these Kanye shirts and Kanye is not "crazy" and the thing he did on Jimmy Kimmel last night was not a "rant." [MTV]
- Paris Hilton called a radio host a "fucking asshole" live on the air. [TMZ]
- I literally yelled "OH MY GOD" out loud when I saw this picture of CaCee Cobb and Donald Faison's baby ROCCO. [Us]
- Craig Robinson (Darryl from The Office) was arrested in the Bahamas for trying to leave the country with weed and Ecstasy. He said he didn't know they were illegal and was fined $1,000. [TMZ]
- Rita Ora is a "mini Gwen Stefani," which makes no sense unless Gwen Stefani is a giantess and everyone just covers it up using forced perspective. [JanetCharlton]
- Cory Monteith's estranged father says he "never said goodbye," which is totally heartbreaking. (Then he says a kind of blamey thing about how Monteith "should have known" not to use heroin, which is heartbreaking in a different way.) [People]
- Miley Cyrus dumped Liam Hemsworth's clothes at Out of the Closet. [DailyMail]