‘The Girls’ actress, Lena Dunham took to Instagram expressing her chronic condition and her craving for love and support from people. She shared with a caption “what life is like when I’m struggling most with chronic illness”.
“I could choose to be embarrassed by these paparazzi pics – I mean, that’s probably the point of someone publishing them in the first place – but I’m really not,” she wrote. “I could lie and say it was an early Halloween look (Don’t you get it? I’m going as a con woman leaving a Florida Keys jail after being acquitted of murdering her husband, and now she’s trying to get disability license plates).
“But the truth is just: This is what life is like when I’m struggling most with chronic illness.”
EDS is a group of rare inherited conditions that affect connective tissue, with symptoms including an increased range of joint movement and fragile skin that breaks or bruises easily.
According to the writer, a flare of the condition means she needs support from “more than just my friends… so thank you, sweet cane!”.
“But it’s so much less weird to actually be able to participate than to stay in bed all day,” she wrote. “And yes, you’d better believe I’m wearing my nightgown.”
“That’s the two-fold life of a woman with chronic illness; we still rock our dreams and goals and passions (and fashions) and we live many lives in one day,” Dunham concluded.
“You inspire me,” one person wrote, while another said: “There’s more to life than what we look like. Keep finding your way to health!!”
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