{"id":869253,"date":"2025-08-30T23:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/30\/lena-dunham-and-emily-ratajkowski-are-teaming-up-for-a-tv-show-about-motherhood\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:14:20","slug":"lena-dunham-and-emily-ratajkowski-are-teaming-up-for-a-tv-show-about-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/30\/lena-dunham-and-emily-ratajkowski-are-teaming-up-for-a-tv-show-about-motherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham and Emily Ratajkowski Are Teaming up for a TV Show About Motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lena Dunham and Emily Ratajkowski are joining forces once more for an exciting new Apple TV+ project exploring \u201cfemale identity and modern motherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair\u2014who most recently worked together on Dunham\u2019s Netflix series Too Much<\/em><\/a>\u2014will team up with author Stephanie Danler, whose best-selling debut novel Sweetbitter<\/em> was also adapted for TV.<\/p>\n

Ratajkowski will star in the upcoming series, which will arguably be her biggest role yet, after supporting roles in Gone Girl<\/em>, Entourage,<\/em> and I Feel Pretty<\/em>\u2014as well as \u201ccool girl” influencer Wendy in Too Much<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Of Course Megan Stalter Is the Main Character<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re watching her viral videos or her scene-stealing character in HBO\u2019s Hacks,<\/em> it\u2019s obvious that Meg Stalter is a star. And now she has the show to prove it. Ahead of the premiere of her new Netflix series, Too Much,<\/em> written for her by Lena Dunham, the 33-year-old reflects on what got her to this moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She will also serve as an executive producer and screenwriter on the series. The as-yet-unnamed project will be her screenwriting debut, after the success of her bestselling 2021 memoir My Body<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Both women have been vocal about their experiences around fertility and motherhood, so we can expect a diverse and poignant range of voices and stories about the modern experience of being a mother. In a previous interview with Glamour<\/em><\/a>, Ratajkowski opened up about how motherhood completely overhauled her connection with her body.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt changed the surface-level relationship I had with my image and my body, where it was just this thing to be looked at and it was either doing a good job or a bad job in that regard,\u201d she said. \u201cNow I see it as this amazing vessel that actually knows a lot more than me in some ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When Glamour<\/em> asked if she\u2019s noticed a shift in the way people treat her now that she\u2019s a mother, she had some choice words.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the classic thing that once a woman becomes a mother, that should be her identity solely, if she\u2019s a good mother,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like there\u2019s this sort of confusion: if it\u2019s not just blatant sexism of [on the one hand] \u2018She shouldn\u2019t be doing that, she\u2019s a mother,\u2019 which is obvious, then there\u2019s almost [on the other hand] this, \u2018I can\u2019t believe she\u2019s a mom!\u2019 which is also equally not great. And I experience that in real life sometimes, even where people are like, \u2018That\u2019s your son?\u2019 It\u2019s obviously really flattering. I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, yes, I\u2019m a child myself.\u2019 Or if somebody doesn\u2019t know that I have a child and then I talk about it [they\u2019ll say], \u2018Oh, what are you doing here?\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018Well, it\u2019s eight o\u2019clock, so he went to bed an hour ago and I have a sitter.\u2019 There\u2019s always going to be something, right? It\u2019s like being a mom is just an example of what I\u2019ve experienced a million times in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She also explained how she navigates raising a son in a world that doesn\u2019t particularly like women.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main things we talk about now are empathy and learning empathy,\u201d she tells me. \u201cAnd then he\u2019s a very loving child, so he hugs a lot. But he started school, so kids will be like, \u2018No,\u2019 and just learning to listen to the other people.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think just very open conversations from a very young age.\u2026 I don\u2019t want him to come home and have found out about sex on the internet before we\u2019ve had the conversation, and I unfortunately know that that happens very young.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that you can start teaching the building blocks of empathy and consent as soon as your child is born.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dunham<\/a> has also been vocal over the years about her fertility journey. Back in 2020 she wrote an essay for Harper\u2019s<\/em> titled \u201cFalse Labour,\u201d with the subheading \u201cGiving up on motherhood.\u201d She outlined her experience with endometriosis, IVF, and ultimately, opting for a hysterectomy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned that none of my eggs were viable on Memorial Day, in the midst of a global pandemic,\u201d she wrote in the essay. \u201cI was in Los Angeles when I got the call from Dr. Coperman, the slight Jewish man who was my entry into (and now exit from) the world of corporate reproduction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis journey has forced me to rethink what motherhood will look like,\u201d Dunham later told People<\/em>. \u201cIVF destroyed my body\u2014as a woman who tends toward rampant endometriosis, filling my body with estrogen\u2026and because of what my body has been through, subjecting it to such excruciating pain, only to come to the end and learn those eggs were not viable after working so hard through illness and discomfort and going through anxiety and depression, it is just clearly not something I can ever repeat.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We look forward to the take these two amazing women put together on the complexities of motherhood in the modern world.<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on<\/em> Glamour UK<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Charley Ross
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