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