Lena Dunham attends ‘Storytellers: Lena Dunham with Michelle Buteau’ during the 2025 Tribeca Festival at Spring Studios on June 14, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Mendez/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)
Girls creator Lena Dunham is now a girl mom.
The writer and actress shared in an essay with Vogue that she has welcomed her first child with husband Luis Felber via surrogate.
In the essay, Dunham describes how she prepared for the baby’s birth by building her daughter’s wardrobe.
“She was preparing herself, inside our surrogate’s strong and healthy body, and as the clothes stacked up in the box, so did some sense that she was becoming real,” Dunham, 40, writes.
Last year, Dunham confirmed to The Times that she and Felber, who married in 2021, were heading toward parenthood. “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.”
Dunham previously revealed that she had a hysterectomy at age 31 due to endometriosis. Endometriosis is a painful disorder where the tissue that normally lines the uterus grows outside of the organ and affects other organs, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Taylor Swift arrives for the MTV Video Music Awards, Sept. 27, 2026, in Los Angeles. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Taylor Swift will perform at this year’s 2026 Academy Museum Gala.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced Thursday that the music superstar will perform at its annual star-studded fundraising event on Oct. 17.
The last time she performed was at the Grammy Museum in August, where she sang a mashup of “All Too Well,” “I Knew It, I Knew You” and “August.”
Her upcoming performance also comes weeks after she released new music and was honored at the 2026 Video Music Awards with the first-ever VMAs Artist Director Honors.
“Taylor is an extraordinary talent whose work resonates around the world,” Amy Homma, director and president of the Academy Museum and Academy Collection, said in a statement shared in a press release. “We are thrilled to welcome her to this year’s gala and look forward to her performance to close a wonderful evening of honoring three extraordinary filmmakers and supporting the Academy Museum’s mission to celebrate and preserve cinema.”
This year marks the Academy Museum’s sixth gala, which is held to help advance the museum’s mission to celebrate and preserve cinema. It will be held at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
Proceeds from the evening will go toward the museum’s exhibitions, educational opportunities, screenings and more.
Filmmaker and composer John Carpenter, two-time Oscar-nominated actor Colman Domingo and Oscar winner Charlize Theron are this year’s honorees.
Jessica Alba, Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Adrien Brody and Georgina Chapman, Jon M. Chu, Kirsten Dunst, Nicholas Galitzine, Ludwig and Serena Göransson, Regina Hall, Kate Hudson, Jessica Lange, Greta Lee, and John Legend and Chrissy Teigen are part of this year’s Academy Museum host committee.
The host committee also includes Rami Malek, Demi Moore, Olivia Munn, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Questlove, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen, Bird Runningwater and Teyana Taylor.
Robert Rodriguez, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw will serve as co-chairs.
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Rain Spencer and Ariana Greenblatt are set to collaborate on a new film. Deadline reports the actresses are going to star in the upcoming movie Little Five. This film comes from Anne Hathaway’s production company Somewhere Pictures and Pigasus Pictures. It is set against the backdrop of Indiana University in the early 1980s and is inspired by the Little 500 bicycle race …
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Audiences have been changed for good by Jon M. Chu’s Wicked films. Fans may have another opportunity to witness the story of Elphaba and Glinda, as the film’s official Instagram is teasing a live Wicked concert. “Everyone, we have an announcement,” the post is captioned. Wicked in Concert seems to be a version of the film that includes a live orchestra, and the post teases more information will be “coming soon” …
