Lena Dunhamis putting less pressure on herself and reaping the mental health benefits.
TheGirlsstar, 32, said that she spent too much of her life worrying about what people thought of her, and she decided to let go of that need.
“I’ve spent a lot of time in this life feeling like too much. Too hungry. Too anxious. Too loud. Too needy. Too sick. Too dramatic. Too honest. Too sexy (jk lol.) I was always sent the message, in insidious ways, that I took up too much room and demanded too much from life and sometimes gave too much to people who didn’t want any at all,”she wrote on Instagram.
Dunham said she now focuses more on what she wants.
“But something has changed, and it started when I realized: I don’t have to be for everybody, and that for the right people, my too much is just enough,” she continued. “My too much also means I have room for their too much and we can take turns too muching all over each other.”
And as a result, Dunham said thather body changed.
“At 32: I weigh the most I ever have. I love the most I ever have. I read and write and laugh the most I ever have. And I’m the happiest I’ve ever been,” she said. “Not the frail, precarious happiness of ‘things are going perfectly.’ The big, generous, jiggly happiness of ‘I think I’m finally starting to get the hang of this.’ Not too much… Just enough.”
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TheCampingwriter had a tumultuous few yearsbetween major health problems thateventually led to a total hysterectomy, asplit from her longtime boyfriend, singer Jack Antonoff, and a few social media firestorms.
Dunham’s body in particular has long been a public focus, to her frustration. At the height of her endometriosis problems, she lost a significant amount of weight andsuddenly dealt with people shaming her for it.
A year later, Dunham said that she was too sick at the time to realize that she harming her body.She posted before and after photos of herselffrom April 2017 and July 2018 to show the difference in her mental health.
Dunham realized that she was“very sick but fetishizing my own body,” and that she’s now “happy, proud and healing.”
source: people.com
