Lena Dunham has thanked fans for their support after a stint in hospital.
The Girls creator and star was rushed to the emergency room from the Met Gala on Monday night, and shared a photo which showed her in a hospital bed with her Elizabeth Kenney gown on the windowsill behind her.
“Thank you for all the love & concern that’s been pouring in since Tuesday,” Lena wrote in the caption. “Although I’m much healthier than I was a year ago, complications arose from my most recent endometriosis surgery.”
Lena said that she is grateful to be able to afford medical help, and encouraged fans to support Planned Parenthood and LGBTQ clinics such as Callen-Lorde.
“I also want to remind all the women suffering from chronic illness that we aren’t weak- quite the opposite, actually,” she went on. “We do our jobs with skill even when we’re struggling.
“We care families even when we can hardly care for ourselves. We serve major face on a red carpet when we feel like lying face down would be more appropriate.
“I’ll always be proud of those Met Gala pics- not just because I felt beautiful, surrounded by art and magic, hugging my best friend tightly, but because they’re evidence that women contain steely multitudes.”
Lena added: “Just that morning @dianafalzone sued Fox after they took her off air for disclosing her endometriosis. But they’re the ones who lost when they fired her, because everyone who’s anyone knows that if you can battle chronic illness there’s nothing you can’t take on.”
The 30-year-old has struggled with endometriosis for years and revealed last month that she was finally “disease-free” after her fifth surgery that year.
