"Part of the reason I wanted to do it was I was losing my breath when I walked up (a) stair," the Girls star, 28, said on "Late Show With David Letterman".
"And also, both my parents, who are 65... They're both really exercise fiends. They look really hot, and I was just starting to feel like I was really dragging behind, and I was like, "You're more than twice my age and I look like a bag of trash next to you.'"