Key Takeaways
- Lena Dunham recently became a mother through surrogacy.
- Surrogate experience: She shared her journey in an op-ed for Vogue.
- Birth details: Her daughter was born 13 days late during a solar eclipse.
- Personal reflection: Dunham expressed deep emotions about the birth experience.
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Lena Dunham is taking a break from being the voice of a generation for a new role: mom.
The Girls alum shared that she and her husband of five years Luis Felber welcomed a baby girl with the help of a surrogate, detailing the experience in an op-ed for Vogue, published Sept. 16.
“13 days late, in the face of a solar eclipse and a meteor shower, she announced herself,” Dunham wrote of her daughter’s birth. “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.”
“I saw her face, gasping just as she did,” she added. “Her eyes, wide and unfocused, taking in the light and shadow, blinking rapidly.”
For Dunham—who has been open about undergoing a hysterectomy in 2017 amid her endometriosis journey—the moment is one she will never forget.
