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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Francis Louie C. Añiga

'You Look Nothing Like I Thought You Would': Lena Dunham's Emotional Words to Baby Girl After Surrogate Birth

Lena Dunham hinted that she and Felber wanted to become parents soon in an interview in 2025 (Credit: expertfitnesstips/Flickr)

Lena Dunham's daughter was born via surrogate in New York 13 days after her due date, the writer has revealed in a new first-person essay. The 'Girls' creator, 40, described the moment she finally looked down in the delivery room and spoke to her baby for the first time.

'Hello,' Dunham recalled saying. 'I'm your mama. You... you look nothing like I thought you would, but exactly right.' She described feeling 'bashful and dizzy with joy' in the first minutes of meeting her child, after years of fertility treatment and surgery.

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