Lena Dunham wants to put New York behind her — far, far behind her.
In a sprawling interview with The Times published on Saturday, June 28, Dunham told the outlet she doesn’t believe she ever really belonged in the Big Apple.
“I was never such a good New Yorker,” she admitted. “I think being a New Yorker takes a certain amount of spunk and vigor to get through every day.”
Living in the city requires “an inbuilt toughness” that Dunham, 39, isn’t sure she has because “I’m easily destabilized, pretty nervous and with various physical health problems.” (Dunham has been public with the struggle with endometriosis and the genetic disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.)
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In 2019, Dunham moved to the UK to direct an episode of the HBO drama Industry. Shortly after, she decided to relocate across the pond full-time.
The plan is partially complicated by Dunham’s pet pigs — two of them, to be exact — who sleep in her bed and are “inside” pigs. Still, and despite the complication, she and her husband Luis Felber want to make it work.
“In the long term our big dream is to have a farm situation in the countryside,” she explained. “And children with British accents skipping off to school in little hats and uniforms. It’s too charming!”
Dunham and Felber, 39, married in September 2021. Dunham had previously confirmed the relationship to the New York Times in March of the same year, having told the outlet, “I feel really lucky. He’s the greatest person I’ve ever met.”
Dunham previously dated music producer Jack Antonoff. The pair’s relationship ended in 2018 after five years together. Two years later, Dunham said in an interview with Cosmopolitan UK that she and Antonoff, 41, were still friends.
“We fell in love when I was really young. I was 25. I look back and we had a great ride, we cared for each other, but you know what? We were both starting our careers and that was our true passion. The love you have for someone doesn’t disappear because you don’t have them; it’s just logistically it doesn’t work anymore,” she told the outlet in January 2020.
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“There are definitely moments where I was catty, rude or sassy, but he has been beautifully accepting of those and I’ve been able to be accepting of his anger too,” she also said. “What’s really nice is we don’t try to pretend that we don’t have this history together, but we’re also willing to move forward.”
