{"id":242106,"date":"2026-05-24T08:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/lena-dunhams-husband-didnt-know-who-she-was\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:04:28","slug":"lena-dunhams-husband-didnt-know-who-she-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/lena-dunhams-husband-didnt-know-who-she-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham&#8217;s husband didn&#8217;t know who she was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-05-24\" datetime=\"1779609868\" pubdate=\"\">24 May 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/lena-dunham\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,lena-dunham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lena Dunham<\/a>&#8216;s husband had no idea who she was when they started dating.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Lena Dunham&#8217;s husband didn&#8217;t know who she was<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old actress met Luis Felber on a blind date in 2021 and while he was aware she was well-known, the Girls star thought it was very sweet when she found out he believed she was a model.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a Q+A in Los Angeles on her Famesick book tour, People magazine reports she said: &#8220;The thing that was so amazing about meeting him, he&#8217;d never seen Girls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lena explained Luis had received a message on Instagram which read: &#8220;Do you think, do you think you could bear to eat dinner with this person?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;He said, &#8216;I thought you might be a curve model.&#8217; I went, &#8216;That is the loveliest thing I&#8217;ve ever heard.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\nFriend and interviewer Rita Wilson said she felt it could be true and urged Lena to call plus-sized model Ashley Graham.<\/p>\n<p>\nHer pal quipped: &#8220;Well, I&#8217;m going to call her after this and see what she thinks I&#8217;ve got to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nLena found Luis&#8217; lack of knowledge of her public profile refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;He didn&#8217;t seem to come with a lot of preconceived ideas about who I was. He was present and interested but not too interested&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I love to talk about him because he fills me with joy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Lena &#8211; who married Luis just a few months after they met &#8211; recently discussed how she is &#8220;really excited&#8221; at finding a way to have a family of her own, having previously undergone a hysterectomy after years of struggling with endometriosis.<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking on Today with Jenna and Sheinelle, she said: &#8220;A lot of dreams came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>\n &#8220;In the moment, my pain was so overriding that I put those other thoughts aside, and it was only in the aftermath of the surgery that I started to feel the weight of what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Some people don&#8217;t dream about being mothers, but I had, and it was a big part of my identity that I was going to do it someday in that way.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The amazing thing is, since then, I have met so many people who built their families in so many different ways, and I have really come to a place where I feel really excited. Whatever way it happens, I will feel so grateful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nLena was with her mother on the day she asked doctors for a hysterectomy and having her &#8220;full support&#8221; made things &#8220;so much clearer&#8221; for her.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;That day I was with my mother. I had just done a Q+A at the wonderful Metrograph Theater, and I looked at her, and she knows me so well, and she just looked in my eyes, and she&#8217;s like, &#8216;You can&#8217;t take it anymore.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n &#8220;And what was so beautiful was I had her with me, and I had her full support, and that made it so much clearer to me because this person who knows me and loves me went, you can&#8217;t go on like this.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s interesting because the framing is that you make a choice to do this, but if you&#8217;re in pain 24 hours a day, it isn&#8217;t really a choice because no one can live like that.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And what breaks my heart is there are so many people who are living like that because the delay to diagnosis for endometriosis averages 10 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/lena-dunhams-husband-know-who-1444904.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 May 2026 Lena Dunham&#8216;s husband had no idea who she was when they started dating. 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