Lena Dunham Shares Her 'Sensual' Photo Post-Ovary Removal Surgery
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The former 'Girls' star jokes that she looked 'sensually moody' in the image which was taken hours after she had her left ovary removed.

AceShowbiz - Lena Dunham has given her fans an update on her latest battle with health issues. The 32-year-old actress/writer had a surgery to remove her left ovary on Tuesday night, October 16, months after she had a total hysterectomy to manage her endometriosis.

Sharing her post-surgery photo, the former "Girls" star wrote, "Yesterday I had a two hour surgery to remove my left ovary, which was encased in scar tissue & fibrosis, attached to my bowel and pressing on nerves that made it kinda hard to walk/pee/vamp. Over the last month it got worse and worse until I was simply a burrito posing as a human."

She showed her bandaged scars on the stomach area by lifting up her hospital garb and still managed to pull a joke about her "sensual" look in the image. "My mother took this picture after I spent 9 hours in the post op recovery area with v low blood pressure that the nurses were diligently monitoring," she added. "I was so out of it that I thought I looked sensually moody a la Charlotte Rampling (turns out it was more of a constipation vibe.)"

Lena Dunham's Post Ovary Removal Surgery Photo

Lena Dunham jokes about her 'sensual' look in post-surgery photo.

Addressing people's criticism that she's too lazy to promote her new show, Lena shared, "But a big lesson I've learned in all of this is that health, like most stuff, 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, however, still managed to see the brighter side of it, writing, "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 of my plan."

Lena also claimed that her experience with health issues has motivated her 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 s**t scars and mesh 'panties' are the f***ing jam."

Lena has been open about her health problems. In February, she wrote an essay for Vogue in which she explained that she decided to have a hysterectomy after "years of complex surgeries measuring in the double digits" and several attempts to manage her endometriosis through various forms of therapy rendered unsuccessful.

During the surgery, doctors found her other medical issues. "In addition to endometrial disease, an odd hump-like protrusion and a septum running down the middle, I have retrograde bleeding, a.k.a. my period running in reverse so that my stomach is full of blood," she revealed. "My ovary was settled in on the muscles around the sacral nerves in my back that allow us to walk. Let's please not even talk about my uterine lining. The only beautiful details is that the organ - which is meant to be shaped like a light bulb - was shaped like a heart."

Lena is now unable to carry a child of her own after undergoing hysterectomy. Sharing her options to have children, she wrote, "Soon I'll start exploring whether my ovaries, which remain someplace inside me in that vast cavern of organs and scar tissue, have eggs. Adoption is a thrilling truth I'll pursue with all my might."

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