Lena Dunham revealed that she’s welcomed her first child ― a baby girl ― via surrogate.

The “Girls” creator wrote about her journey to parenthood alongside her husband, Luis Felber, in an op-ed for Vogue published on Wednesday.

The 40-year-old said her daughter arrived 13 days late “in the face of a solar eclipse and a meteor shower.”

“I sat on a hospital bed, between the legs of a woman I hadn’t known a year ago, waiting for a glimpse of this person who I had been waiting for with something related to patience, but also none at all,” she wrote.

“I was so focused on our surrogate—in awe at her concentration, her period of quiet followed by what sounded like a roar—I forgot to look down until I heard our baby’s cry. I saw her face, gasping just as she did,” Dunham recalled, saying her midwife instructed her to talk to her newborn.

“‘Hello’ I said. ‘I’m your mama. You…you look nothing like I thought you would, but exactly right. We’ve been waiting for you, do you know that? It was so nice of you to come,’” Dunham shared.

The “Famesick” author has been candid over the years about her reproductive health struggles, including a yearslong battle with endometriosis and undergoing a hysterectomy in 2018.

Dunham said in an essay for Vogue at the time that she removed her uterus and cervix after “years of complex surgeries measuring in the double digits.”

After the hysterectomy, the author wrote, she wanted to explore either surrogacy or adoption.

“Soon I’ll start exploring whether my ovaries, which remain someplace inside me in that vast cavern of organs and scar tissue, have eggs. Adoption is a thrilling truth I’ll pursue with all my might,” she said at the time.

Dunham hinted that she and Felber wanted to become parents soon in an interview with the U.K. Times in 2025.

“I will say we’re in the process of expanding our family in new ways,” she said. “I want to safely meet our children and then figure out how to talk about it.”

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