Lena Dunham is feeling herself.
The actress shared a side-by-side shot of her body in Summer 2017 and a shot of her body during Thanksgiving 2018.
It reads “Found this pic from summer 2017 Here I am day after Thanks G 2018.”
Next the before photo it reads, “I was very sick but fetishizing my own body.”
The after photo has an upbeat message reading, “I am happy, proud & healing and so I should fetishize this body and offer her THANX.”
People loved her message and supported her in the comment section.
“Thank you for this post. Woke up in my feeling and need to shake it off,” one person wrote.
“You look so much better now. I’m sorry but you look unwell in the other picture. You have a beautiful body and your confidence is amazing, love you!” another person added.
The body positive post comes after she reflected on Nov. 14 about getting a hysterectomy for “severe endometriosis.”
“What a difference a year makes… First photo was indeed a year ago today, on the first night after my hysterectomy for severe endometriosis,” she wrote.
“I was smiling but my eyes say it all: full of anxiety and grief that I couldn’t locate through the layers of pain meds and benzos. Severe undiagnosed PTSD, feelings that my worth and purpose were being taken from me, angry and self-pitying with no sense of how I’d emerge,” she continued.
“The second pic was taken tonight, happy joyous and (substance) free. The last year hasn’t been all roses and Kenny G songs, but it’s been proof enough for me in the presence of the divine. The divine- it’s been there in the kindness of my family, friends, chronically ill folks online. It’s also been there in the moments where I cried myself to sleep, shocked by the sounds coming out of me. It’s in the light slanting on my comforter, the resilience of my best friend’s baby clonking her head then giggling, the new hairs sprouting at my temples,” she added.
“Mostly I’ve found it in my own strength, because who the fuck knew. And I don’t mean strength as in powering through. I mean strength as in vulnerability, feeling it all, taking it as it comes and dancing even with a hospital grade pad in my underwear.
I surprised myself. I bet you can surprise yourself too,” she concluded.
Lena seems to be in great spirits as of late!
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