Dunham also hinted that she and Felber, who have been married since 2021, were looking into different ways of having children, as she told the Times in July 2025 that she and her husband were “in the process of expanding our family in new ways”.
In the Vogue op-ed, Dunham revealed that her daughter – whose name has yet to be revealed – made her big entrance into the world two weeks late.
She wrote: “13 days late, in the face of a solar eclipse and a meteor shower, she announced herself. I sat on a hospital bed, between the legs of a woman I hadn’t known a year ago, waiting for a glimpse of this person who I had been waiting for with something related to patience, but also none at all.”
The Girls creator added that while she had expected to feel jealous of her surrogate, she instead went through some very different emotions.
She mused: “The feelings I thought would be there somehow weren’t: namely jealousy, that this woman could do for a child – for my child – what I could not. Carry her safely in her body, use her form to feed and house her, regulate the baby’s ever-evolving nervous system with steadiness, heart, and breath.
“Instead, I felt a different kind of jealousy – towards said baby, for the chance to be tucked into someone who radiated such safety. I could just tell she knew how to steer an SUV in the snow.”
– BANG Showbiz