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Lena Dunham is now a mom!
Years before she married her husband, the Girls star underwent a hysterectomy.
That has not stopped them from growing their family via a gestational surrogate.
Dunham has opened up about the experience in her own, heartfelt words.
Lena Dunham & Luis Felber have welcomed their first child!
On Wednesday, September 16, Lena Dunham revealed that she and husband Luis Felber are now parents.
The two welcomed a child via gestational carrier, she detailed in a Vogue op-ed, zeroing in on her bond with the surrogate.
“The feelings I thought would be there somehow weren’t: namely jealousy, that this woman could do for a child — for my child — what I could not,” she confessed.
“Carry her safely in her body, use her form to feed and house her, regulate the baby’s ever-evolving nervous system with steadiness, heart, and breath,” Dunham explained.
“Instead,” Dunham shared, “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.”
Dunham revealed that the gestation carrier informed her that she was pregnant — that implantation had been successful — by texting a photo of a pregnancy test.
“If I hadn’t already been lying down, I would have hit the floor, felled by a proprietary blend of shock and gratitude,” she recalled.
Dunham continued: “So now, all there was to do was wait.”
In fact, she waited longer than she had expected. Like many great people, Dunham’s daughter was born nearly two weeks past her due date.
“13 days late, in the face of a solar eclipse and a meteor shower, she announced herself,” Dunham described.
‘Hello. I’m your mama’
“I sat on a hospital bed, between the legs of a woman I hadn’t known a year ago,” Lena Dunham described.
She recalled “waiting for a glimpse of this person who I had been waiting for with something related to patience, but also none at all.”
Continuing, Dunham wrote: “I saw her face, gasping just as she did. Her eyes, wide and unfocused, taking in the light and shadow, blinking rapidly.”
She recited her first words to her baby: “Hello. I’m your mama. 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.”
Though babies have no actual say in the matter, this is a common and very positive sentiment.
Dunham and Felber married in September of 2021.
Now, half a decade into their marriage, they have successfully expanded their family by one.
The two (and their newborn) are reportedly in the US at present.
However, they are expected to return to North London soon. That is Felber’s point of origin.
Some people have nightmare surrogates or other complications. It sounds like Dunham and Felber had much better luck.
Congratulations to them both!
Lena Dunham & Luis Felber Welcome Baby #1 Via Surrogate! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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It’s another tumultuous week in the life of Jenelle Evans.
And once again, it’s all playing out in public.
We’ll start with the fact that Jenelle posted a nude photo of herself on Facebook.
We’d share it here, but this is a PG-13, family-friendly site, you heathens!
That said, we know and love our audience, so you can check out Jenelle’s post here.
Many of the comments were highly critical of Jenelle, with quite a few wondering how she managed to sidestep Facebook’s rules about racy content.
But that’s not even Ms. Evans’ biggest controversy of the week!
As we previously reported, Jenelle and David Eason split again in August after briefly rekindling their relationship. Now, audio from a 911 call made by Jenelle on the day she kicked David out of her Florida home has surfaced — and it provides a pretty chaotic look at what happened behind closed doors.
According to The Ashley’s Reality Roundup, Jenelle called 911 on the morning of August 18 and asked for a “police escort” because David was refusing to leave.
“I have my ex-boyfriend here and he was here ‘coparenting’ with me,” Jenelle told the operator. She explained that the two had gotten into an argument and that she had told David he needed to leave because her name was on the lease.
Jenelle claimed David was attempting to take her belongings, despite the fact that their divorce had already been finalized.
“He’s trying to say, ‘Oh, this is mine, this is mine,’” she said.
The situation escalated as the two argued over a set of car keys. At one point, David could be heard shouting in the background while Jenelle accused him of going through her purse and taking her keys.
Jenelle also told the operator that there was an active no-contact order between the former couple. According to the incident report obtained by The Ashley, police later confirmed that the order was still active after having difficulty locating it in their system.
The reality star became increasingly emotional during the call.
“I’m crying my eyes out over here and nobody cares!” Jenelle told the operator.
She also alleged that David had insulted their daughter, Ensley, during an earlier argument, including calling the nine-year-old a “drug addict.” Jenelle said both Ensley and her son Kaiser were at the house during the confrontation but remained in their rooms.
Eventually, Jenelle told the dispatcher that she believed David had left the property.
According to the police report, officers found David walking down the street near Jenelle’s home. He reportedly acknowledged that a no-contact order existed but told police that he and Jenelle had been living together for approximately a year while attempting to co-parent.
Jenelle confirmed to officers that the argument had remained verbal and had not turned physical.
David was not arrested. Officers advised him not to return to Jenelle’s home and advised Jenelle to transfer her existing protection order to Florida.
We’d like to think that that will be the end of the drama between these two — but we know better.
Jenelle Evans Posts Nude Pic on Facebook as 911 Call About Ex-Husband Goes Public was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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By: James Brooks, Alaska Beacon
If you use Alaska’s public cabins, get ready for a change.
On Oct. 1, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources will begin limiting how far in advance reservations can be made to three months, down from six months.
The only exceptions to the three-month reservation window will include the Wood-Tikchik Region and cabins on Afognak and Shuyak Islands in the Kodiak region, which will continue to allow reservations up to six months in advance.
The change is part of a shift to a new online booking system and website that also opens Oct. 1. Cabin-seeking Alaskans will be unable to change, modify or cancel their existing reservations from Sept. 28 through Sept. 30 as part of the transition.
Beginning Oct. 1, reservations for all facilities can be made for Jan. 1, 2027 and the 3-month rolling window will begin.
Wendy Sailors, community engagement manager for Alaska State Parks, said by email that the new shorter reservation window is the result of feedback from Alaskans who said “that it is difficult to plan that far out, often people forget that they had the reservation and have to cancel last minute or just don’t use it, etc. So in addition to the three-month rolling reservation window, we are incorporating a few new features like an email reminder 7 days out.”
By: James Brooks, Alaska Beacon
In August, more than 70% of participating Alaska voters supported Ballot Measure 1, voting to restrict the amount of money that individuals can contribute to campaigns for state office.
On Nov. 3, Alaskans will vote on Ballot Measure 2, and an overlooked section of that measure — intended to roll back the state’s election system to what it was in 2020 — almost certainly would repeal part of Ballot Measure 1.
“I mean, people are like, why didn’t you raise this earlier? I’m like, it’s got 91 sections, and I literally didn’t notice,” said Scott Kendall, the author of Alaska’s existing elections system and an attorney fighting Ballot Measure 2.
In 2020, Alaskans passed a different Ballot Measure 2. It installed three major changes to the state’s election system: An open primary, where all candidates run together, and the top four advance to the general election; a ranked choice general election, where voters sort those four candidates in order of preference; and a disclosure law requiring third-party groups to disclose their donors when the groups donate to political candidates and causes.
This year’s Ballot Measure 2 seeks to repeal all three parts, returning Alaska elections to what they were in 2020.
There’s also a new wrinkle because of this year’s Ballot Measure 1.
Passed by voters in August, Ballot Measure 1 limits the amount of money that someone can donate to a candidate. That includes governor and lieutenant governor candidates who run together as a single ticket.
That single-ticket system was installed in 2020’s Ballot Measure 2. Ballot Measure 1 limited donations to that single ticket, putting the limits in Alaska Statute 15.13.070(g).
Ballot Measure 2 seeks to get rid of the combined single-ticket campaign, and Section 5 states, “AS 15.13.070(g) is repealed.”
That would get rid of the combined donation limit for governor and lieutenant governor. But some state officials say another law may then come into play.
Because candidates would — if Ballot Measure 2 passes — be running separately, they may be limited by a different part of Ballot Measure 1, AS 15.13.070(b), which applies to individual candidates.
That’s the position held by Alaska Public Offices Commission director Heather Hebdon. APOC is in charge of enforcing Alaska’s campaign finance laws.
By email, Hebdon said that if Ballot Measure 2 passes, “contribution limits for gubernatorial candidates would fall under those found in AS 15.13.070(b)(c) and (f).”
She believes APOC would likely write new regulations to deal with those limits’ applicability to governor and lieutenant governor candidates.
Kendall said he isn’t sure about that.
“I will say it’s really legally tenuous. I think when you have a statute that says a thing and you explicitly repeal that thing, you get what you get,” he said.
He also observed that in 2021, when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Alaska’s prior limits on political donations, APOC attempted but failed to preserve a limit for the state’s 2022 elections.
Supporters of Ballot Measure 2 said they don’t have a position on the issue.
“Repeal Now wrote Ballot Measure 2 as a full and complete repeal of the 2020 ballot measure that brought ranked choice voting to Alaska. We are unaware of any effect on Ballot Measure 1 and thus can’t comment on that,” said Bethany Marcum, treasurer of Repeal Now, the leading group behind Ballot Measure 2.
Craig Richards, a former attorney general who represented Repeal Now in court, said he was unfamiliar with the issue.
The Alaska Department of Law also declined to make a definitive statement on the topic.
Sam Curtis, a spokesman for the department, said by email that attorneys within the Alaska Legislature would make the final determination of what happens if Ballot Measure 2 passes.
That’s because the revisor of statutes — an obscure staff official — is in charge of mediating disputes between enacted laws.
Emily Nauman, the Legislature’s chief attorney, declined to say how the Legislature might interpret any conflict.
Rep. Calvin Schrage, I-Anchorage and a sponsor of Ballot Measure 1, said earlier this month that he has requested that Nauman’s office deliver a written ruling on the issue, but as of Tuesday afternoon, that memo had not yet been completed.
The Alaska Supreme Court has dealt with similar issues before. In 2021 and in 2006, the court ruled that later laws trump earlier ones.
“In general, if two statutes conflict, then the later in time controls over the earlier, and the specific controls over the general,” the court wrote in a 2006 decision.
On Sept. 11, Schrage said he doesn’t like the idea of repealing a campaign finance limit.
“It seems to fly in the face of what Alaskan voters have time and time again reaffirmed as a priority for them,” he said.
The Alaska Supreme Court had an opportunity earlier this month to address the issue but declined to take it up.
During arguments over the proper description of Ballot Measure 2 on the November election ballot, Kendall sought to bring up the Section 5 issue.
The court rejected Kendall’s attempt, saying it hadn’t been properly briefed beforehand.
As a result, the final description on the ballot says only that Ballot Measure 2 would “remove the limits on donations to joint campaigns for governor and lieutenant governor.”
It doesn’t say whether anything will replace them.