Posting a photo on Instagram of herself, cats in hand, Dunham wrote: “And it was then, walking to the refrigerator at 3am in her mustard-stained nightgown carrying an armload of cats, that she realized, “wow, it feels good to be a living breathing destructive cliche about single women.”

The Girls creator is now single after splitting with American singer-songwriter Jack Antonoff, who she dated for nearly six years, in December 2017.

Last year, Dunham relocated to Wales for the summer to film her new HBO series, Industry. Around that time, in a personal essay for The Guardian, she revealed that she was using that time to get over Antonoff and an “explosive and uncomfortable” relationship that followed.

Lena Dunham just showed she’s not afraid of clichés about single women