‘Girls’ star Lena Dunham welcomes baby girl after fertility battle

Lena Dunham and her husband, Luis Felber, are now a family of three.

The couple, who have been married since 2021, welcomed a baby girl via surrogate, the actress and writer revealed in a Vogue op-ed published Wednesday, Sept. 16.

The "Girls" creator and star recounted the emotional surrogacy journey and the anticipation in the months leading up to the birth, which came after over a decade of fertility issues.

Dunham recalled meeting her surrogate less than a year before the woman gave birth, accompanying her to an embryo transfer procedure and getting the positive pregnancy test results days later.

"Now, all there was to do was wait. Track milestones, continue calculating, try not to allow ourselves to become too attached to this person who was really just an idea," she wrote. "My husband was better at the waiting, but he hadn't spent the last 12 years circling the fertility drain, and he offered as many hopeful assurances as he could without making false promises."

As the surrogacy progressed, the "Famesick" author examined feelings of envy.

"In the months before the embryo transfer date, as I got to know our surrogate and to trust her, the feelings I thought would…

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