Lena Dunham seen for the first time after welcoming surprise baby with husband Luis Felber via surrogate… after hysterectomy ended chances of natural birth

Lena Dunham surfaced in New York on Saturday, marking her first public sighting since she announced she had welcomed a baby girl with her husband Luis Felber.

Dunham gave up any possibility of carrying her child after electing to undergo a total hysterectomy in 2018 because of years of endometriosis-related pain.

She surprised fans by revealing last week that she and Felber had brought a daughter into the world with the assistance of a surrogate.

The Girls creator, 40, broke cover this weekend wearing an eye-catching ensemble that included a bright pink scarf wound around a collared silver minidress.

Warding off the oncoming autumn chill with a charcoal herringbone blazer, she accessorized with a scarlet Kate Spade handbag.

Over the course of the day, she switched between a set of pristine white heels and a pair of splashier shoes with a color stream that faded from orange to crimson.

The Daily Mail has contacted Dunham's representatives for comment. 

Lena Dunham surfaced in New York on Saturday, marking her first public sighting since she announced she had welcomed a baby girl with her husband Luis Felber

Dunham gave up any possibility of carrying her child after electing to undergo a total hysterectomy in 2018 because of years of endometriosis-related pain

Two days before the sighting, Dunham and Felber both posted glowing encomia to each other to mark their fifth wedding anniversary.

Dunham wrote: 'Sometimes you get set up on a blind date with a friend’s friend’s friend and you’re like “hey, I know I’ve proven myself an unreliable narrator of love, but I think I’m gonna marry him” and everyone who has witnessed your meandering path is kinda like “okay, at it again, are we psycho?”(in a nicer way.)

'But then you do. And he turns out to be a wonderful husband, a beautiful father and an incredibly skilled curator of hair accessories. Don’t quit before the miracle.'

Felber wrote: 'In this modern panic Romance is flawed And Everything you transmit Cannot be ignored Is it smoke and magic? Or a cosmic force? How you inhabit All of my thoughts 5 years. Here’s to 500 more.'

'Mi Esposito,' Dunham wrote in the comments, adding a string of emojis with hearts over the eyes.

The posts came after she revealed the first words she uttered to her newborn daughter, in a birth announcement op-ed written for Vogue. 

'Hello. I’m your mama,' she told the baby. '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 added: 'I meant it. Like a kid who wasn’t sure if their schoolmates would arrive for the birthday party, I was bashful and dizzy with joy.' 

Earlier this year Dunham spoke about coming to terms with not being able to carry her own children, which had always been her 'dream.' 

She made the decision to have her womb, cervix and an ovary removed after enduring chronic health issues and she acknowledged that it was 'only in the aftermath of the surgery that I started to feel the weight of what had happened.'

The Girls creator, 40, broke cover this weekend wearing an eye-catching ensemble that included a bright pink scarf wound around a collared silver minidress

Warding off the oncoming autumn chill with a charcoal herringbone blazer, she accessorized with a scarlet Kate Spade handbag

Dunham gushed: 'Like a kid who wasn’t sure if their schoolmates would arrive for the birthday party, I was bashful and dizzy with joy'

Over the course of the day, she switched between a set of pristine white heels and a pair of splashier shoes with a color stream that faded from orange to crimson

Earlier this year Dunham spoke about coming to terms with not being able to carry her own children, which had always been her 'dream'

She explained on Today with Jenna and Sheinelle in April: 'Some people don't dream about being mothers, but I had, and it was a big part of my identity that I was going to do it someday in that way.

'The amazing thing is, since then, I have met so many people who built their families in so many different ways, and I have really come to a place where I feel really excited. Whatever way it happens, I will feel so grateful.' 

In Wednesday's article, Dunham reflected on her journey through surrogacy and praised her surrogate.

The Girls creator said she had not been 'jealous' of the woman who carried her child through pregnancy.

'Instead, I felt a different kind of jealousy — toward 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.'

In June last year, Dunham told The Sunday Times that her hysterectomy 'was a grief but it was also a relief.' 

And she revealed that she and British musician Felber, 40, were in the process of 'expanding' their family 'in new ways.'

In 2020, two years after the hysterectomy, Dunham shared her thoughts on the process of trying to become a mother while unable to conceive or carry her own baby.

Two days before the sighting, Dunham and Felber both posted glowing encomia to each other to mark their fifth wedding anniversary

Dunham hailed Felber as 'a wonderful husband, a beautiful father and an incredibly skilled curator of hair accessories'

In an essay for Harper's Magazine, she acknowledged how expensive the process is as well as the mental toll it takes.

'There is a lot you can correct in life—you can end a relationship, get sober, get serious, say sorry—but you can’t force the universe to give you a baby that your body has told you all along was an impossibility,' Dunham wrote.

'Weak animals die in the woods as their pack mates run ahead. Bad eggs don’t hatch. You can’t bend nature.

'The irony is that knowing I cannot have a child—my ability to accept that and move on—may be the only reason I deserve to be anyone’s parent at all. I think I finally have something to teach somebody.' 

Dunham and Felber met during the Covid-19 lockdown and for their first date they took a walk together along the River Thames at night.

Dunham first revealed she was dating Felber during an interview with The New York Times back in April 2021.

'It's been a few months. I feel really lucky,' she said, adding that Felber was, 'the greatest person I've ever met.'

She was previously in a relationship with musician Jack Antonoff from 2012 to 2017.