Lena Dunham: Husband Luis Felber Would Have ‘Ruined My Life’ in My 20s

Lena Dunham admits her husband Luis Felber would have ‘ruined her life’ if she had met him in her twenties.

The actress and director, 39, was first introduced to the musician, also 39, in February 2021 after relocating to London from New York and the couple got married just a few months later in August 2021 after embarking on a whirlwind romance. 

But the Girls star and showrunner told how she is pleased she didn’t cross paths with the guitarist in her younger years because she thinks he would have ghosted her. 

Speaking in an interview with The Sunday Times STYLE, Lena explained: ‘I just think he would have ruined my life in my twenties. 

‘We would have spent an afternoon together and it would have been the best time of my life and I never would have heard from him again. And then he would have popped up six months later being like,”I’m back from tour”.’ 

The filmmaker described her husband as ‘the weirdest person [she’d] ever met’ and said their connection was instant, adding: ‘It wasn’t possible to resist it. It just felt like: this is what’s happening. This is what it is.’ 

Lena Dunham admits her husband Luis Felber would have ‘ruined her life’ if she had met him in her twenties (pictured together at the London premiere of Too Much last week)

Lena explained the couple’s long-term dream is to move to the countryside to run their own farm and have ‘children with British accents skipping off to school in little hats and uniforms. It’s too charming!’

The Golden Globe winner also revealed she and Felber are looking at ‘new ways’ to expand their family after she made the difficult decision to undergo a total hysterectomy in 2018 after enduring years of endometriosis-related pain. 

Prior to her marriage to Felber, the star was in a long-term relationship with music producer and lead singer of Bleachers, Jack Antonoff, 41, for five years from 2012 to 2017.

Lena explained how upon reflection, she feels she ‘spent [her] whole twenties pretending to live’ while at the height of her fame during Girls.

The acclaimed director is back this summer with Too Much, her new Netflix series loosely based on her own life, which hits screens on July 10. 

The show follows an eccentric New Yorker who moves to London post-breakup and falls for an indie rocker.

Luis – who used to play guitar for bands and artists including Jamie T – plays a key part in the show too, credited as writer, executive producer and composer.

His role was also to oversee the male character Felix (played by Will Sharpe) and to make sure he was portrayed in the most authentic way.

The Girls star and showrunner (pictured in 2012 when she would have been 26) told how she is pleased she didn’t cross paths with the guitarist in her younger years 

The actress and director, 39, was first introduced to the musician, also 39, in February 2021 after relocating to London from New York and the couple got married just a few months later 

Prior to her marriage to Felber, the star was in a long-term relationship with music producer and lead singer of Bleachers, Jack Antonoff, 41, for five years from 2012 to 2017 (pictured in 2017)

Lena previously revealed admitted she ‘doesn’t trust herself’ in her marriage as she reflected on her tumultuous dating history in an essay for Vogue ahead of the release of her semi-autobiographical Netflix series.

She mused: ‘You really never know when you’re having your last affair.  

‘Some of us hope that every frog we kiss is our happy ending, while others stand hand in hand with their soulmate, still terrified of the vista narrowing, the buffet running out, closing time.

‘Even now, I can’t be sure. It’s not that I don’t trust my husband or our life – I do, very much. It’s that at some point along the way, wrecking myself again and again on the rocky shores of male attention, I stopped trusting myself.’