Lena Dunham posts nude selfie to honor the anniversary of her hysterectomy

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• 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."See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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