{"id":851013,"date":"2026-09-17T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851013\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:00:12","slug":"lena-dunham-welcomes-her-first-baby-via-surrogacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851013\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham welcomes her first baby via surrogacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Actress and writer Lena Dunham<\/a> and her husband Luis Felber have welcomed a baby daughter via surrogate.\n <\/p>\n

\n Writing in an op-ed published by Vogue<\/a> on Wednesday, Dunham, 40, who is best known as the creator of hit TV series \u201cGirls,\u201d revealed that the couple\u2019s first child had arrived 13 days late, before describing the moment of her birth.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI was so focused on our surrogate \u2014 in awe at her concentration, her period of quiet followed by what sounded like a roar \u2014 I forgot to look down until I heard our baby\u2019s cry,\u201d she wrote.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI saw her face, gasping just as she did. Her eyes, wide and unfocused, taking in the light and shadow, blinking rapidly.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Dunham said she was \u201cbashful and dizzy with joy.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n In 2018, Dunham revealed that she\u2019d had a hysterectomy in an attempt to end the pain caused by endometriosis<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n Endometriosis is a common and often painful condition that happens when tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus itself. It\u2019s estimated to affect more than 11% of women<\/a> between the ages of 15 and 44 across the United States.\n <\/p>\n

\n The surgery removed her cervix and uterus, meaning that she was unable to conceive naturally.\n <\/p>\n

\n On meeting her surrogate, Dunham wrote in the Vogue piece: \u201cWhile I\u2019ve been known to make friends quickly \u2014\u200b airport terminals, veterinary offices \u2014 \u200bthis was the quickest leap from first coffee to gynecological procedure I\u2019d ever done.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Dunham said in the months before the embryo transfer date, as she \u201cgot to know our surrogate and to trust her,\u201d she thought she would feel \u201cjealousy\u201d towards her, but she did not.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cInstead, I felt a different kind of jealousy \u2014 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,\u201d Dunham added.\n <\/p>\n

\n The pregnancy came after \u201c12 years circling the fertility drain,\u201d Dunham wrote, and revealed how she dealt with the nerves of the intervening months.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cPowerless and unable to feel the physical changes that signal a growing fetus, I horrified friends and family who adhere to the Jewish superstition prohibiting anticipatory purchases, and I started shopping,\u201d said Dunham, before recounting her journey into the world of baby fashion.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI was looking for garments that allowed her personality to develop and express itself rather than announcing an identity she didn\u2019t yet have,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cShe would be a person that we helped to dress, who made an impression on the world based on our choices, until she was old enough to do it herself.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actress and writer Lena Dunham and her husband Luis Felber have welcomed a baby daughter via surrogate. Writing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-851013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}