Lena Dunham: 'I'm more modest now I'm older'

Girls creator and star Lena Dunham is keen to get naked with "vigour" in the next series of the show, despite growing more modest with age in real life.

The 29-year-old, who plays Hannah Horvath in the hit HBO series, has left nothing to the imagination on the show's four seasons, but now she is older and wiser, Lena isn't as willing to get her kit off on screen.

"Part of getting older for me has actually been feeling more modest," she explained to Refinery29. "Unfortunately, Hannah Horvath doesn't always allow for that. I hope to reprise some of her nudity in this final season, with vigour."

Lena has received praise from her peers for her stark and honest portrayal of the female form and a woman's approach to sex and sexuality, but the star admits she hasn't always felt as confident about her figure as she does now.

"I didn't feel pretty in high school, or really, in college," she said. "When I started to become a public figure, part of me expected people would react to me the way boys did in high school and say rude things, but part of me also expected people to be better than that."

However, with the good comes the bad, and Lena has received a host of negative comments about her body on social media. She does her best not to let it bother her.

"At this point, I'm so used to it, I could see, like, 57,000 of those comments and I wouldn't feel a thing," she added. "But even the most confident woman has a day where she feels bloated and insane and she ate three cupcakes that she didn't want.

"When you top a day like that off with a little Google of yourself, let's just say it's not a pretty situation."

Season five of Girls debuts in the U.S. later this month (Feb16).