Lena Dunham and her husband, Luis Felber, have welcomed a child via a surrogate.
The couple, who have been married since September 2021, are now the proud parents of a baby girl, the actress revealed in a Wednesday op-ed in Vogue.
We hear the couple are currently in the States and will soon head back to their home in North London, where Felber is from.
Lena Dunham (seen here) and her husband, Luis Felber, welcomed her first child via surrogate.
The couple (pictured here) confirmed they welcomed a baby girl to Vogue on Wednesday. lenadunham/Instagram
In her piece, Dunham, 40, gave an inside look at the timeline, noting that the embryo transfer happened in November before diving into her relationship with her surrogate.
“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,” she wrote. “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,” she added, “I felt a different kind of jealousy — toward 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.”
The “Girls” actress remembered that the surrogate told her she was pregnant by texting a photo of a pregnancy test.
“If I hadn’t already been lying down, I would have hit the floor, felled by a proprietary blend of shock and gratitude,” she shared. “So now, all there was to do was wait.”
Page Six hears Dunham (seen above) and Felber are currently in the US and will soon head back to their home in North London.
Dunham (seen here) revealed in the Vogue op-ed that the embryo transfer with her surrogate happened in November. Instagram/lenadunham
Dunham confirmed her daughter arrived almost two weeks past her due date.
“13 days late, in the face of a solar eclipse and a meteor shower, she announced herself,” the proud mom wrote, seemingly referencing the rare celestial double feature that happened on Aug. 12. “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.”
Dunham continued, “I saw her face, gasping just as she did. Her eyes, wide and unfocused, taking in the light and shadow, blinking rapidly.”
Her first words to her daughter were, “Hello. I’m your mama. You look nothing like I thought you would, but exactly right. We’ve been waiting for you, do you know that? It was so nice of you to come.”
Dunham (pictured here) had a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis in 2017 when she was 31. Instagram/lenadunham
Dunham (pictured here) revealed to Vogue that her daughter was born 13 days after her due date. lenadunham/Instagram
For almost a decade, Dunham has been open about medical issues with her reproductive system. In 2017, at the age of 31, she underwent a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis, a painful condition where tissue grows outside the uterus.
Last summer, she told The Times that she and Farber were in the process of “expanding” their family.
Dunham also told the outlet that her hysterectomy “was a grief, but it was also a relief.”
“13 days late, in the face of a solar eclipse and a meteor shower, she announced herself,” Dunham wrote. Instagram/lenadunham
Dunham (seen here) said her first words to her daughter were, “Hello. I’m your mama. You look nothing like I thought you would, but exactly right. We’ve been waiting for you, do you know that? It was so nice of you to come.” Instagram/lenadunham
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“I thought I would have the opportunity to experience my fertility and my cycle waning and it never was,” she said. “Instead it was a very quick, sharp cut-off … I will say we’re in the process of expanding our family in new ways. I want to safely meet our children and then figure out how to talk about it.”
In April, Dunham talked about how she grieved the possibility of never becoming a mom after her hysterectomy.
“In the moment, my pain was so overriding that I put those other thoughts aside, and it was only in the aftermath of the surgery that I started to feel the weight of what had happened,” she said on “Today with Jenna and Sheinelle.”
The “Girls” actress (seen here) told The Times last year that she was in the process of “expanding” her family. lenadunham/Instagram
Dunham (seen here) also said at the time that her hysterectomy “was a grief but it was also a relief.” lenadunham/Instagram
She added, “Some people don’t dream about being mothers, but I had, and it was a big part of my identity that I was going to do it someday in that way.”
However, Dunham noted that since her surgery, she’s “met so many people who built their families in so many different ways,” which allowed her to “come to a place where I feel really excited” about having children her own way.
“Whatever way it happens, I will feel so grateful.”