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In really exciting news, Lena Dunham, personal friend, it feels, at this time, has become a mum.

She has welcomed a child through surrogacy with her husband, Louis Felber.

The news was announced via a Vogue op-ed titled, Lena Dunham is a mother, the sweet singular story of how she prepared.

In the essay, Lena speaks of the process of meeting her surrogate and her own process of shopping and preparing for the baby's arrival.

I have seen a few call-outs online of her using surrogacy, but I feel like people who are doing that don't understand the the context and the health issues that Lena Dunham has dealt with in the past.

And that's a real conversation to be had about the rise of celebrity surrogates.

But this is so different, especially if you have read Famesick, Lena Dunham's new memoir.

She speaks a lot about her many chronic illnesses and she's had various fertility issues.

And at the age of 31, she actually had a total hysterectomy.

So she can't birth children herself.

We'll read a little bit of the piece out now.

Instead, I felt a different kind of jealousy.

Towards said baby, for the chance to be tucked into someone who radiated such safety, I could just tell she knew how to steer an SUV in the snow.

Later in the piece, she talks about how the baby arrived late, so we'll read more from the piece now.

And then, 13 days late, in the face of a solar eclipse and a meteor shower, she announced herself.

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 patients, but also none at all.

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, her eyes wide and unfocused, taking in the light and shadow blinking rapidly.

Talk to her, the midwife said.

Say hello.

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.