How Lena Dunham’s Cats Gave Her a Reality Check
February 14, 2026 at 02:20AMLena Dunham has found a solution for loneliness: cats. Sharing her home with five of them, she delights in their different personalities and the joy their antics bring. We start at the beginning, with her first cat, Elegance—who turned Dunham into a proud cat lady—and follow the journey as one became a full-fledged pack, each new arrival adding a layer of comfort to Dunham’s life.
But like any good cat lady, I realized: We may all be human, but who says our friends have to be? Just like there’s always a backstabbing, troublemaking entity in any reality TV girl gang, a cat brings the side-eye, the discontent, the flare for the dramatic. My husband, Luis, and I were already living with two dogs, Ingrid (California Gurl) and Cornichon (Welsh). I figured I could build a friend group as dynamic in its range as any of the ones I was following, replete with the hot girl, the slattern, the upwardly mobile homosexual, the token straight guy, and the business bitch. Little did I know that just as British people do not behave like us Americans, neither do British cats.
from Longreads https://longreads.com/2026/02/13/how-lena-dunhams-cats-gave-her-a-reality-check/
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