Lena Dunham has had a difficult journey. On Monday, the “Girls” creator and star appeared on Global’s “The Drew Barrymore Show” and opened up about her health struggles in recent years, including having a hysterectomy at 31.
RELATED: Lena Dunham Recalls The Time Glenn Close Cut Her Out Of A Corset In A Bathroom “Something from the beginning of my health struggle was the idea that I was not going to keep a secret because we are in a culture that sees illness as weakness,” she said of being public about her struggles. “We are in a culture that sees sick women as hysterical women and we are in a business that doesn’t look kindly at illness because people are working at such a pace with so much money involved that for people to be in any way
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