In September of 2016, Lena Dunham ruffled feathers after she critically detailed her encounter with Odell Beckham Jr. at the Met Gala. She said, “I was sitting next to Odell Beckham Jr., and it was so amazing because it was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards. He was like, 'That's a marshmallow. That's a child. That's a dog.' It wasn't mean — he just seemed confused.”

She added, “The vibe was very much like, 'Do I want to f--k it? Is it wearing a ... yep, it's wearing a tuxedo. I'm going to go back to my cell phone.' It was like we were forced to be together, and he literally was scrolling Instagram rather than have to look at a woman in a bow tie. I was like, 'This should be called the Metropolitan Museum of Getting Rejected by Athletes.'” 

Users on social media seemed unimpressed with her account of the interaction and ultimately deemed her comments self-indulgent and entitled.