The 'Girls' creator recalled the beginning stages of her relationship with Luis Felber during a 'Famesick' Q&A on May 20 in Los Angeles
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- Lena Dunham concluded her Famesick book tour on Wednesday, May 20, in Los Angeles with a Q&A with Girls castmate Rita Wilson
- During their conversation, Dunham revealed her husband, Luis Felber, initially thought she was famous for being a curve model
- She explained to the crowd that his kindness and lack of preconceived notions about her made their connection special
Lena Dunham is sharing that her husband wasn't aware of why she was a celebrity and believed she was famous for what she called the "loveliest" reason.
During the final stop of her Famesick book tour, Dunham, 40, spoke with former castmate Rita Wilson about her new memoir and the early stages of her relationship with her husband, Luis Felber. At the Wednesday, May 20, Q&A in Los Angeles, she reflected on her relationship and realized that Felber had not seen her work.
"The thing that was so amazing about meeting him, he'd never seen Girls," she said, before recalling that he was sent a message on Instagram, asking, "Do you think, do you think you could bear to eat dinner with this person?"
Dunham explained that his initial reaction upon receiving that message about dating the well-known woman was to assume it was because she was a curve model.
"He said, 'I thought you might be a curve model,' " she said. "I went, 'That is the loveliest thing I've ever heard,' " she told Wilson.
Wilson, 69, explained that it could be true, telling her to call famed plus-size model Ashley Graham. Dunham jokingly replied, "Well, I'm going to call her after this and see what she thinks I've got to do."
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She noted that Felber "didn't seem to come with a lot of preconceived ideas about who I was," adding, "He was present and interested but not too interested."
The creator of Too Much shares that Felber is "really amazing." The couple met in 2021 after they were set up on a blind date. A few months later, Dunham and Felber moved in together. By September of that same year, they married in an intimate ceremony. "I love to talk about him because he fills me with joy," she shared.
The Girls creator told PEOPLE in April 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," she continued. "Lou is able to really hold people's complexity and still do everything in a way that's very anchored in love."
Dunham also shared during the April interview that she finally feels at home 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," she said, explaining, "Because I am so aware of what my body is doing for me."
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In the years before Famesick was published, while Girls aired, Dunham had candidly discussed criticism of her appearance, no matter her size. “I have been a sample size, I have had my body change because of life, illness, aging, menopause," she told Variety in July 2025. "And it is merciless wherever you are.”
The year prior, she told The New Yorker she would not opt for onscreen roles. “I also think that I was not willing to have another experience like what I’d experienced around Girls at this point in my life," she said. “Physically, I was just not up for having my body dissected again."
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