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Lena Dunhamis hoping to become a mom soon.
TheGirlswriter and creator, 35, recently spoke toThe Hollywood Reporterfor their latest cover story, opening up about her desire to adopt a child — an idea that she’s thought about more sinceshe married musician Luis Felberin September.
“I’ll be 36 this year,” she told the outlet. “I don’t feel like turning 38 without a child.”
Dunham has been open about wanting to be a mother and her experience with infertility after having her cervix, uterus and one ovary removed at the age of 31due to chronic endometriosis.
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In an emotional essay forHarper’s Magazine’s December 2020 cover issue, she spoke about her journey with in vitro fertilization — and the difficult emotions surrounding the fact that it didn’t pan out.
Unfortunately, the process didn’t go the way theOnce Upon a Time in Hollywoodactress had hoped, learning that none of her eggs were viable.
“This journey has forced me to rethink what motherhood will look like,” Dunham later told PEOPLE of the experience. “IVF destroyed my body — as a woman who tends towards rampant endometriosis, filling my body with estrogen … and because of what my body has been through, subjecting it to such excruciating pain, only to come to the endand learn those eggs were not viableafter working so hard through illness and discomfort and going through anxiety anddepression, it is just clearly not something I can ever repeat.”
“I think women often have a keen instinct about what is happening with their own bodies — and I had an instinct that it probably wouldn’t work,” she continued. “I had hopes it would, but to be honest, I’d already made my peace about becoming an adoptive mother. But then when everyone got so excited about there being this possibility that my one ovary could produce eggs,and with IVF and surrogacy, I could maybestill have a biological child, it pulled me away from what I think I already instinctively knew.”
“When I’m lucky enoughto be able to have a child in my arms, I will not take for granted how many stops, twists and turns it has taken for that child to be in my arms, and to be in my life,” she said. “I hope that whatever I do is a testament to the fact that the modern journey to motherhood looks different for every single woman, and I hope that every woman who sees me on my journey recognizes that there are moments of joy even before a child enters your life.”
source: people.com
