{"id":554,"date":"2026-09-16T18:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:20:12","slug":"lena-dunham-welcomes-first-child-via-surrogate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham welcomes first child via surrogate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-09-16\/Getty_LenaDunham_091626.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Lena Dunham attends &#8216;Storytellers: Lena Dunham with Michelle Buteau&#8217; during the 2025 Tribeca Festival at Spring Studios on June 14, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Mendez\/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Girls<\/em> creator Lena Dunham is now a girl mom.<\/p>\n<p>The writer and actress shared in an essay with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/lena-dunham-shopping-for-baby-october-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Vogue<\/em><\/a> that she has welcomed her first child with husband Luis Felber via surrogate.<\/p>\n<p>In the essay, Dunham describes how she prepared for the baby\u2019s birth by building her daughter&#8217;s wardrobe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was preparing herself, inside our surrogate\u2019s strong and healthy body, and as the clothes stacked up in the box, so did some sense that she was becoming real,\u201d Dunham, 40, writes.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Dunham confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/life-style\/celebrity\/article\/lena-dunham-interview-too-much-netflix-60mn7ls2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Times<\/em><\/a> that she and Felber, who married in 2021, were heading toward parenthood. \u201cI will say we&#8217;re in the process of expanding our family in new ways,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I want to safely meet our children and then figure out how to talk about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dunham previously revealed that she had a hysterectomy at age 31 due to endometriosis.\u00a0Endometriosis is a painful disorder where the tissue that normally lines the uterus grows outside of the organ and affects other organs, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/endometriosis\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20354656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mayo Clinic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lena Dunham attends &#8216;Storytellers: Lena Dunham with Michelle Buteau&#8217; during the 2025 Tribeca Festival at Spring Studios on June 14, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Mendez\/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival) Girls creator Lena Dunham is now a girl mom. The writer and actress shared in an essay with Vogue that she has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}