Lena Dunham Reveals Her Battle With Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome in an Honest Instagram Post

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The actress got personal after a paparazzi photo of her using a cane surfaced.

"I could choose to be embarrassed by these paparazzi pics — I mean, that's probably the point of someone publishing them in the first place — but I'm really not. I could lie and say it was an early Halloween look . . . But the truth is just: this is what life is like when I'm struggling most with chronic illness," she wrote.

In Lena's Instagram caption, the 33-year-old went on to address her use of a cane."An Ehler-Danlos syndrome flare means that I need support from more than just my friends . . . so thank you, sweet cane," she wrote."For years, I resisted doing anything that would make my physical situation easier, insisting that a cane would 'make things weird.' But it's so much less weird to actually be able to participate than to stay in bed all day.

This is just one of many occasions on which Lena has shared a few details about her health. Last year, the actress penned an essay in the March issue of

 

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