Lena Dunham recently admitted that her husband Luis Felber had no idea that she was the creator and star of Girls when they were first introduced.
Instead, she said Felber initially assumed that she was a ‘curve model’ at the time.
The Golden Globe winner, 40, spoke about meeting the British musician during a Q&A in Los Angeles with former castmate Rita Wilson to promote her new memoir, Famesick.
‘The thing that was so amazing about meeting him, he’d never seen Girls,’ Dunham shared, per People.
Felber was aware that there was a show on HBO called Girls because his mother and sister watched it when he was in his 20s, but he was busy doing other things to notice who starred in it.
Dunham – who claimed her Girls costar Adam Driver was ‘spectacularly rude’ to her on set – recalled that while they were being set up on a blind date five years ago, Felber was asked if he could date a famous woman.
Lena Dunham was actually touched that her husband Luis Felber didn’t know she was in Girls and assumed she was a ‘curve model’ when they were first introduced; pictured in September 2022 in London
The British musician was aware there was a show called Girls because his mother and sister watched it but he was busy doing other things to notice who starred in it; Dunham and Girls costar Adam Driver are pictured in a still from Girls
He was sent a message on Instagram that said, ‘Do you think, do you think you could bear to eat dinner with this person?’
‘He said, “I thought you might be a curve model.” I went, “That is the loveliest thing I’ve ever heard,”‘ she told Wilson, who played the eccentric and self-centered mother to Allison Williams’ character, Marnie, on Girls.
Wilson, who is married to Tom Hanks, replied that Dunham should call well-known plus-size model Ashley Graham.
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‘Well, I’m going to call her after this and see what she thinks I’ve got to do,’ Dunham quipped.
She added that Felber ‘didn’t seem to come with a lot of preconceived ideas about who I was. He was present and interested but not too interested.’
A few months after they hooked up in 2021, the couple moved in together and then got hitched in September of the same year.
Dunham gushed that Felber is ‘really amazing… I love to talk about him because he fills me with joy,’ adding that her husband is ‘an effervescently kind person.’
‘And so all that other stuff, like him being funny and cute and cool and creative, is like the cherry on top. Lou is able to really hold people’s complexity and still do everything in a way that’s very anchored in love.’
The Golden Globe winner said during a recent Q&A that Felber ‘didn’t seem to come with a lot of preconceived ideas about who I was. He was present and interested but not too interested’; pictured in June 2025
A few months after meeting on a blind date in 2021, the couple moved in together and then got hitched in September the same year
Dunham gushed that her husband is ‘really amazing… I love to talk about him because he fills me with joy’; pictured in June 2025 in London
The actress-writer-director-producer said she finally feels comfortable in her own skin; pictured at the Met Gala on May 4
Elsewhere in the interview, Dunham stated she finally feels comfortable in her own skin.
‘Occasionally, I’ll run into something in which somebody makes a comment about my weight or my appearance, and it does not affect me the same way that it used to because I am so aware of what my body is doing for me,’ she said.
Dunham recently revealed she was ‘really excited’ to start a family despite undergoing a hysterectomy in 2017 at age 31 after years of struggling with endometriosis.
‘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,’ she said on Today with Jenna and Sheinelle.
‘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.’
