Inside Lena Dunhams London Home Base and Connecticut Forever Home as Girls creator welcomes first child
Writer and director Lena Dunham has welcomed her first child with husband Luis Felber—five years after leaving Los Angeles behind for a new life in London.The “Girls” creator, 40, revealed in an op-ed for Vogue that she and Felber had welcomed a daughter via surrogate, sharing intimate details about the moment she became a mother.Despite having traded the palm trees of Los Angeles for the bustle of London, Dunham revealed that she and Felber temporarily relocated to New York City ahead of the birth, staying in an Airbnb close to their surrogate.“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,” Dunham penned of her daughter’s arrival.She added, “I saw her face, gasping just as she did.
Her eyes, wide and unfocused, taking in the light and shadow, blinking rapidly.”Dunham described her first moments with her daughter as leaving her “bashful and dizzy with joy.”“’Hello,’ I said, ‘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,’” she recalled.But the joyous milestone wasn’t without some logistical difficulties—particularly when it came to the couple’s temporary living situation.Dunham admitted that she and Felber had failed to extend their Airbnb reservation because they hadn’t anticipated their daughter arriving nearly two weeks after her due date.“It had occurred to me she might come early, but it had never occurred to me she would come late.Our Airbnb in a state not our own, just down the road from where our surrogate lives, ran out, and we hadn’t bothered to check if it was booked for the next two weeks (it was, by frat boys on vacation).
As we passed her due date, the days...