Lena Dunham Celebrates 24 -pound Weight Gain With Side-by-side Photos: I'm 'happy And Free'

Actress Lena Dunham poses at Elle Magazine annual Women in Television dinner in Los Angeles, California January 13, 2015.( Reuters)

Lena Dunham, a self-described “body positivity warrior, ” took to Instagram Tuesday to celebrate her figure with before-and-after photos. The “Girls” creator shared two paparazzi pictures of herself, exposing she is 24 pounds heavier than she was a year prior.

In one photo, taken in April 2017, Dunham presents off her slim figure in a short black dress and high heel ankle boots. In the other, taken more recently, Dunham is seen chuckling with her 13 -year-old dog, Bowie, in her arms.

“On the left: 138 pounds, complimented all day and propositioned by men and on the cover-up of a tabloid about diets that work, ” Dunham, 32, wrote in an Instagram caption. “On the right: 162 pounds, happy joyous& free, complimented only by people that matter for reasons that matter, subsisting on a steady flowing of fun/ healthy snacks and apps and entrees, strong from lifting puppies and spirits.”

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Dunham admitted she occasionally seems back at the photo of her thinner self “longingly, ” but the superstar told me that she then has to remind herself of the ache she was feeling at that time.

“[ I was] sick in the tissue and in the head and subsisting merely on small amounts of sugar, tons of caffeine and a purse pharmacy, ” Dunham exposed. “I remember the impossible pain that brought me there and onto my proverbial knees.”

On the left: 138 pounds, complimented all day and propositioned by men and on the encompas of a tabloid about diets that work. Also, sick in the tissue and in the head and subsisting merely on small amounts of sugar, tons of caffeine and a handbag pharmacy. On the right: 162 pounds, happy joyous& free, complimented only by people that matter for reasons that matter, subsisting on a steady flowing of fun/ healthy snacks and apps and entrees, strong from lifting puppies and spirits. Even this OG body positivity warrior sometimes looks at the left picture longingly, until I remember the impossible pain that brought me there and onto my proverbial knees. As I type I can feel my back fat rolling up under my shoulder blades. I lean in .~ ATAGEND
A post shared by Lena Dunham (@ lenadunham) on Jul 10, 2018 at 10:34 am PDT

Dunham addressed her dramatic weight loss in 2017, uncovering to Ellen DeGeneres that sometimes in Hollywood you merely “can’t win.”

“Suddenly, I had all these people being like, ‘You’re a hypocrite, I thought you were body positive. I thought you were a person who embraced bodies of all sizes, ‘ and I’m like’ I do, I merely also understand that bodies change, we live a long time, things happen, ‘” Dunham told DeGeneres on her talk show in March 2017.

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Months later, in June 2017, Dunham posted a nude photo of herself on Instagram, announcing that she was finally comfy with her “pear-shaped pot of honey, ” referring to her stomach.

Just wanted to share that one of the reasons @eatingboys has inspired me so much is because of the style she mixes her humor and sexuality. I spent so many years loving my body but guessing it wasn’t lovable by others- its sole purpose was to be fodder for jokes. I performed the insult so no one else could. I don’t regret any of it- that’s my art and that was my truth- but now, at age 31, having been through hell and back with my health and other people’s perceptions of my physicality, I feel deeply comfy with the idea that this pear-shaped pot of honey is equally good for stimulating people laugh and laying out like a Suicide Girl circa 2004. Love everything is .~ ATAGEND
A post shared by Lena Dunham (@ lenadunham) on Jun 15, 2017 at 8: 18 pm PDT

She also slammed a publication for putting her on the cover-up with a headline that read, “2 0 Slimdown Diet Tips Star Are Using.”

“I have no tips-off I give no tips-off I don’t want to be on this cover-up cuz it’s diametrically opposed to everything I’ve opposed my whole career for and it’s not a compliment to me because it’s not an achievement thanx, ” Dunham replied at the time.

The writer-actress has had several health issues in recent years, suffering chronic ache from endometriosis — a ailment where tissue grows outside a woman’s uterus.

Dunham believed she was free of endometriosis in April 2017, but detected she was not rid of the disease after being transported to a hospital during the Met Gala the following month.

In March 2018, Dunham explained in an issue of Vogue her decision to undergo a total hysterectomy.

“In addition to endometrial disease, an odd hump-like protrusion and a septum running down the middle, I have retrograde bleeding … so that my belly is full of blood. My ovary has settled in on the muscles around the sacral nerves in my back that allow us to walk. Let’s please not even talk about my uterine lining, ” Dunham wrote.

Dunham announced her split with longtime boyfriend Jack Antonoff in January. The two decided to call it quits in December after five and a half years together, though they’ve remained close friends — with Antonoff publicly voicing his support for Dunham after her procedure.

Fox News’ Kathleen Joyce contributed to this report .

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Lena Dunham celebrates 24 -pound weight gain with side-by-side photos: I’m ‘happy and free’

Lena Dunham Celebrates 24 -pound Weight Gain With Side-by-side Photos: I'm 'happy And Free'

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Lena Dunham Celebrates 24 -pound Weight Gain With Side-by-side Photos: I'm 'happy And Free'

Lena Dunham Celebrates 24 -pound Weight Gain With Side-by-side Photos: I'm 'happy And Free'

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