Lena Dunham's husband didn't know who she was
Lena Dunham's now-husband, Luis Felber, thought she was famous for being a curve model.
Lena Dunham's husband had no idea who she was when they started dating.
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.
Speaking at a Q+A in Los Angeles on her Famesick book tour, People magazine reports she said: "The thing that was so amazing about meeting him, he'd never seen Girls."
Lena explained Luis had received a message on Instagram which read: "Do you think, do you think you could bear to eat dinner with this person?"
She added: "He said, 'I thought you might be a curve model.' I went, 'That is the loveliest thing I've ever heard.' "
Friend and interviewer Rita Wilson said she felt it could be true and urged Lena to call plus-sized model Ashley Graham.
Her pal quipped: "Well, I'm going to call her after this and see what she thinks I've got to do."
Lena found Luis' lack of knowledge of her public profile refreshing.
She said: "He didn't seem to come with a lot of preconceived ideas about who I was. He was present and interested but not too interested...
"I love to talk about him because he fills me with joy."
Meanwhile, Lena - who married Luis just a few months after they met - recently discussed how she is "really excited" at finding a way to have a family of her own, having previously undergone a hysterectomy after years of struggling with endometriosis.
Speaking on Today with Jenna and Sheinelle, she said: "A lot of dreams came to an end.
"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.
"Some people don'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.
"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."
Lena was with her mother on the day she asked doctors for a hysterectomy and having her "full support" made things "so much clearer" for her.
She said: "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's like, 'You can't take it anymore.'
"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't go on like this.
"It's interesting because the framing is that you make a choice to do this, but if you're in pain 24 hours a day, it isn't really a choice because no one can live like that.
"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."
