Lena Dunham is “really excited” about finding a way to have a family of her own.
Lena Dunham had a hysterectomy
The Girls creator – who married musician Luis Felber in 2021 – previously revealed she had undergone a hysterectomy after years of struggling with endometriosis and she has recalled how she didn’t focus on how having her uterus removed would stop her carrying a baby until after the procedure was complete.
And after grieving what could have been, Lena found hope in other people’s stories.
Speaking on Today with Jenna and Sheinelle, she said: “A lot of dreams came to an end.
“In the moment, my pain was so overriding that I put those other thoughts aside, and it was only in the aftermath of the surgery that I started to feel the weight of what had happened.
“Some people don’t dream about being mothers, but I had, and it was a big part of my identity that I was going to do it someday in that way.
“The amazing thing is, since then, I have met so many people who built their families in so many different ways, and I have really come to a place where I feel really excited. Whatever way it happens, I will feel so grateful.”
The 39-year-old actress was with her mother on the day she asked doctors for a hysterectomy and having her “full support” made things “so much clearer” for her.
She said: “That day I was with my mother. I had just done a Q+A at the wonderful Metrograph Theater, and I looked at her, and she knows me so well, and she just looked in my eyes, and she’s like, ‘You can’t take it anymore.’
“And what was so beautiful was I had her with me, and I had her full support, and that made it so much clearer to me because this person who knows me and loves me went, you can’t go on like this.
“It’s interesting because the framing is that you make a choice to do this, but if you’re in pain 24 hours a day, it isn’t really a choice because no one can live like that.
“And what breaks my heart is there are so many people who are living like that because the delay to diagnosis for endometriosis averages 10 years.”
