Dunham has just spent the summer living in Wales to work on a new TV project.

In an unexpected and highly relatable Guardian essay about reality dating show Love Island, she talked about how watching the programme while living in the UK helped her to deal with her breakup from Jack Antonoff.

“I am asking myself the same questions they ask themselves on Love Island, really,” she wrote. “Can you love again after hurt? What does partnership mean? And what does it mean to know someone if you don’t know yourself?”

Dunham ended the essay, penning: “I hope I meet someone who is OK with an infertile, chubby, controlling fantasist who has made a lot of mistakes but can’t stop trying. I hope I can show my children what it means to love with intention, without losing oneself.

“I hope the villa is always full of smiling faces, hopeful hearts, tearful losses and ecstatic gains. I hope we can keep cracking on, into the future forever. I hope that summer never ends.”

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