Lena Dunham posts nude selfie to honor the anniversary of her hysterectomy
Redeem now - Lena Dunham shared nude photos on Instagram in honor of the nine-month anniversary of her hysterectomy.
- "My body is mostly healed and every day I find a new bruise on my heart, but today I offer myself gratitude: from the most pained place, I somehow knew to choose myself," she wrote.
- Dunham also renamed the day "Happy Giving Birth To Myself Day."
- Dunham elected to get a hysterectomy after believing she had endometriosis.
Writer and actor Lena Dunham honored the nine-month anniversary of her hysterectomy with celebratory nude photos on Instagram.
"Today is National Leathercraft Day, National Relaxation Day and National Lemon Merengue Pie Day. It's also the 9 month anniversary of my hysterectomy," Dunham wrote in the caption. "I've never celebrated the nine month anniversary of anything and I realized last night why that number feels so funny — I won't ever do it the way I planned to. My body is mostly healed and every day I find a new bruise on my heart, but today I offer myself gratitude: from the most pained place, I somehow knew to choose myself."
The series of three photos was shared on Instagram to Dunham's 3.1 million followers.
"The purest glint of who we are and know we can be is always available to us, calm and true at our center," the caption continued. "My friend Paul named my uterus Judy, and when she was being uppity we called her out, hence the tattoo on my ribs, which hurt like f--- even through the pain meds: #RIPJudy. Today I give thanks for Judy, for her graceful exit and for this body, which is stronger than I've ever given it credit for. Happy Giving Birth To Myself Day."
In February, Dunham penned an essay for Vogue explaining her choice to get a hysterectomy at age 31 after believing she had endometriosis (though Dunham said no formal diagnosis had ever been made even after 10 years of living in pain).
"I know that a hysterectomy isn’t the right choice for everyone [...] that it's not a guarantee that this pain will disappear, and that you are performing it due to your deeply held, essential and — to my mind — feminist belief that women should be able to make a choice about how they want to spend their childbearing years," Dunham wrote in Vogue.
Dunham, now 32, is the co-creator of HBO's coming comedy series "Camping," starring Jennifer Garner and David Tennant.
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