Lena Dunham is a mom. The Girls creator, actress, and author, 40, and her husband, musician Luis Felber, 40, have welcomed their first child together, a baby girl, via surrogate. Dunham shared the news Wednesday in a deeply personal op-ed published in Vogue, reflecting on the years of fertility struggles that led to this moment.
The Lena Dunham first baby news marks a long-awaited chapter for the writer, who underwent a hysterectomy in 2018 at age 31 due to severe endometriosis pain. In her essay, Dunham described meeting the surrogate in a Brooklyn café, the anxiety of waiting for the pregnancy test, and the surreal moment of watching her daughter’s birth. She recalled her first words to the baby: “Hello. I’m your mama. You… you don’t look at all how I imagined, but exactly right. We’ve been waiting for you, you know? It was so kind of you to come”.
Dunham and Felber married in September 2021 after a whirlwind romance. In her Vogue essay, Dunham also wrote candidly about the months leading up to the birth, including her habit of shopping for baby clothes to feel closer to the child she couldn’t carry herself, and her horror at discovering the state of modern baby fashion.
