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Lena Dunham’s Husband Thought She Was a Model

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 s...

Lena Dunham’s Husband Thought She Was a Model
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 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' when they were first introduced.

The winner, 40, spoke about meeting the British musician during a Q&A in with former castmate to promote her new memoir, Famesick.

'The thing that was so amazing about meeting him, he'd never seen Girls,' Dunham shared, per People.

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Felber was aware that there was a show on 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 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

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He 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.

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.'

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