'I had an instinct that taking some time away was going to be necessary to survive.'
Lena ended up becoming a bit of a recluse in the aftermath of the controversy,Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images
“That was not a job I wanted and is a job that I respectfully resigned from," she explained, in response to being called"a controversy creator."Lena continued,"Though my voice is loud, I’m actually a person who feels most comfortable alone in the world of thoughts and books. I had an instinct that taking some time away was going to be necessary to survive — there was a little while there when I wasn’t hearing my own voice.
"I wasn't hit with the signal that I was not ‘correctly formed’ until the public really let me know," she continued, noting that she'd had confidence after growing up in a"feminist household.""All of that feedback contributed to the formation of self. And I stopped being a person that I liked," Lena added.C-WordRodin Eckenroth / Getty Images
“And the funny thing is, now I’m much ‘curvier,' ‘bigger,' whatever, than I was in my 20s, it’s wild to me that THAT was the body everybody critiqued: the body of an anxious, emaciated, aching person," she added, referencing her then-struggles with endometriosis."I look at her and can’t believe that little hurting girl was subjected to this.
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