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    Meet Jenni Konner, The Off-Screen 'Grown-Up' Who Helped Make 'Girls'

    For six seasons, Konner has been a sort of den mother to the show's millennial actresses. Today, she and Girls creator Lena Dunham are creative partners and best friends.
    by Mandalit del Barco Mar 24, 2017 3 minutes
    Konner, pictured here in 2015, helped Lena Dunham create, write and produce her HBO series.

    Jenni Konner and Lena Dunham are creative partners and best friends. From their cozy office in Los Angeles, they oversee their hit show Girls, work on their online feminist newsletter Lenny Letter and develop other film and TV projects. (Currently in the works: an HBO animated series about Planned Parenthood.) Their office is adorned with photos of the BFF posing together for magazine covers, and provocative artworks.

    "This one is about perky boobies," Konner says, pointing to a framed needlepoint sampler.

    It's the kind of brazen humor, now in its sixth and final season on HBO. The comedy/drama follows a group of self-involved young women living in Brooklyn. They're all friends of aspiring writer Hannah Horvath, who describes herself has "witty and narcissistic."

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