Women On TV Step Off The Scale

Women On TV Step Off The Scale
Actress Melissa McCarthy arrives at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 21st Annual Hall of Fame Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif., Thursday, March 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
Actress Melissa McCarthy arrives at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 21st Annual Hall of Fame Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif., Thursday, March 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

ON her new show, “The Mindy Project,” Mindy Kaling plays a single doctor who is irked but not undone by a male colleague telling her she should lose 15 pounds.

Neither is Hannah, the character Lena Dunham plays on her HBO comedy, “Girls.” When a boyfriend asked her about her tummy flab, Hannah replied: “No, I have not tried a lot to lose weight. Because I decided I was going to have some other concerns in my life.”

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