Lena Dunham Shares Candid Photo of Surgery Scars After Having an Ovary Removed

“A big lesson I’ve learned in all this is that health, like most things, isn’t linear- things improve and things falter and you start living off only cranberry juice from a sippy cup/sleeping on a glorified heating pad but you’re also happier than you’ve been in years,” she wrote. 

“I feel blessed creatively and tickled by my new and improved bellybutton and so so so lucky to have health insurance as well as money for care that is off my plan. But I’m simultaneously shocked by what my body is and isn’t doing for me and red with rage that access to medical care is a privilege and not a right in this country and that women have to work extra hard just to prove what we already know about our own bodies and what we need to be well. It’s humiliating.”

Using her own story as a call to action, she continued, “My health not being a given has paid spiritual dividends I could never have predicted and it’s opened me up in wild ways and it’s given me a mission: to advocate for those of us who live at the cross section of physical and physic pain, to remind women that our stories don’t have to look one way, our pain is our gain and oh shit scars and mesh “panties” are the fucking jam. Join me, won’t you?”

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Dunham is notoriously outspoken on social media. She was met with praise over the summer when she shared a side-by-side photo of herself at her thinnest and at her current weight, explaining that she’s much happier at 162 lbs than she was at 138 lbs.

We thank you for your honesty, Lena.

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