Lena Dunham is opening up about the personal pain that she is dealing with behind closed doors. The Hollywood actress wrote in a new essay for the December 2020 issue of Harper’s magazine about her struggle to have biological kids.
She says that she went through a failed attempt to have a child through in vitro fertilization and surrogacy — which she turned to after having her uterus, cervix, and one of her ovaries removed because of her endometriosis and other health problems that she has been dealing with. Here’s what she has to say.
Lena wrote in her piece, “It turned out that after everything I’d been through—the chemical menopause, surgeries by the dozen, the carelessness of drug addiction—my one remaining ovary was still producing eggs. If we successfully harvested them, they might be fertilized with donor sperm and carried to term by a surrogate.”
Lena Dunham Pens Emotional Essay On Her Struggle To Have Biological Kids
Lena, who had gone to rehab to fight her addiction to opioids, says that she had a second chance to welcome her own child into this world, but was left disappointed once again.
“I learned that none of my eggs were viable on Memorial Day, in the midst of a global pandemic,” she wrote. “When [the doctor] spoke my name with that sympathetic downturn, the apologetic-doctor voice I have come to know so well, my face crumpled in apprehension.”
Lena went on to say that while she had always dreamed of becoming a mother, her body simply won’t allow it.
“When I was a little girl…I had already made every egg I was ever going to have,” she wrote. “They were inside me, destined to fail. I just didn’t know it yet. I was another cocky woman-to-be, sure that I would have what I wanted because I wanted it. Because I had always gotten it. Because the world told me it was mine to take.”
She continued, “I tried to have a child. Along the way, my body broke. My relationship did, too. In the process—because of it?—I became a functional junkie. I had lost my way, and a half-dozen eggs sitting in Midtown promised to lead me home.”
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