{"id":18574,"date":"2026-05-23T19:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/lena-dunham-reveals-her-now-husband-thought-she-was-a-model-before-blind-date-hello-magazine\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:22:14","slug":"lena-dunham-reveals-her-now-husband-thought-she-was-a-model-before-blind-date-hello-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/lena-dunham-reveals-her-now-husband-thought-she-was-a-model-before-blind-date-hello-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Dunham reveals her now-husband thought she was a model before blind date &#8211; HELLO! Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"fr-deletable gd-content-undefined\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-type=\"mention\/taxonomy\"><a class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/tags\/lena-dunham\/\">Lena Dunham<\/a><\/span> tied the knot in 2021 with Luis Felber, only months after the pair were set up on a blind date. But despite Lena being one of the most famous and divisive millennial celebrities, it turns out Luis, a musician from London, had no idea who Lena was or what she did.<br \/>Lena, whose new memoir <em>Famesick\u00a0<\/em>has been a huge success, was speaking on Wednesday, May 20, during a Q&amp;A in Los Angeles with <span class=\"fr-deletable gd-content-undefined\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-type=\"mention\/taxonomy\"><a class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/tags\/rita-wilson\/\">Rita Wilson<\/a><\/span>, when she revealed that on their first date, he told her that he believed her to be a &quot;curve model,&quot; something she called &quot;lovely&#x27;.<br \/>&quot;The thing that was so amazing about meeting him, he&#x27;d never seen <em>Girls<\/em>,&quot; said Lena, sharing that a mutual friend had messaged Luis to ask him if he wanted to go to dinner with &quot;this person,&quot; sending him a picture of Lena.<br \/>On their first date, he told her: &quot;&#x27;I thought you might be a curve model,&#x27; and I went, &quot;That is the loveliest thing I&#x27;ve ever heard.&#x27;&quot;<br \/>Lena then joked she would call <span class=\"fr-deletable gd-content-undefined\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-type=\"mention\/taxonomy\"><a class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/tags\/ashley-graham\/\">Ashley Graham<\/a><\/span>, one of the most famous plus-size models in the industry, to &quot;see what she thinks I&#x27;ve got to do&quot;.<br \/>The 40-year-old found fame in the early 2010s in the <span class=\"fr-deletable gd-content-undefined\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-type=\"mention\/taxonomy\"><a class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/tags\/hbo\/\">HBO<\/a><\/span> series <em>Girls<\/em>, which she created, wrote, and starred in. Her character, Hannah, claimed she could be the &quot;voice of a generation,&quot; and the label was then attached to Lena as well.\u00a0<br \/>Although she is an eight-time Emmy nominee and one of the most successful female showrunners of the last decade, attention has <a class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/film\/844444\/lena-dunham-cancelled-what-we-know-about-the-too-much-creator\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"article-body-link\">often shifted in negative ways about her life,\u00a0<\/a>appearance, and relationships.<br \/>Lena dated Jack Antonoff for years and was the subject of several of <span class=\"fr-deletable gd-content-undefined\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-type=\"mention\/taxonomy\"><a class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/tags\/taylor-swift\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a><\/span>&#x27;s songs, including &quot;You Are In Love,&quot; as the three were incredibly close.<br \/>Jack and Lena ended their romance in 2018, but Taylor remained close with both, acting as a bridesmaid for Lena and Luis at their London wedding.<br \/>The photos, published by <em>Vogue<\/em>, revealed Lena turned heads in three incredible bridal dresses: a mini A-line dress, a long, satin gown with split sleeves and jewel detailing, and an A-line white silk dress complete with a portrait painting from their wedding invitation, all by Christopher Kane.<br \/>The bridesmaids also wore custom metallic silver dresses in various styles by Christopher Kane for the ceremony, as well as beautiful frocks by The Vampire&#x27;s Wife for the pre-wedding.<br \/>In recent years, Lena began writing books and created the 2025 <span class=\"fr-deletable gd-content-undefined\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-type=\"mention\/taxonomy\"><a class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/tags\/netflix\/\">Netflix<\/a><\/span> series <em>Too Much<\/em>, loosely based on her own life, and admitting that the merciless dissection of her body was part of her reasoning for stepping behind the camera.<br \/>She has also been open about her fluctuating body size due to personal health conditions; Lena had been diagnosed with <a class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/healthandbeauty\/health-and-fitness\/856465\/6-celebrities-living-with-endometriosis-and-how-the-symptoms-affect-their-lives\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"article-body-link\">endometriosis<\/a>, undergoing a total hysterectomy at the age of 31 after decades of pain, as well as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiogFBVV95cUxOZnh1Yi1ReHdyclIxOW5fbnh4dElsTmNOZjNoRDdLcVI3Ry1wSFBsb25Pb3JZa2NvTWdDeEVuUmc5UEg0NXhhYkFSSkdlNmswczJHWlJGbnFoYnB4Ty1UamZWVGdnSHV5ZHZwV2tmOHdoMm1PbTBJcklvRmVBQlJnZ3RpNmhmeE80bUVpTm9XZ29RNTZRaXNYc1JRVlBSMzhnREE?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lena Dunham tied the knot in 2021 with Luis Felber, only months after the pair were set up on a blind date. But despite Lena being one of the most famous and divisive millennial celebrities, it turns out Luis, a musician from London, had no idea who Lena was or what she did.Lena, whose new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}