Lena Dunham is "in the process" of "expanding" her family

She told The Sunday Times' Style magazine: "It was a grief but it was also a relief. I thought I would have the opportunity to experience my fertility and my cycle waning and it never was. Instead it was a very quick, sharp cut-off...

"I will say we're in the process of expanding our family in new ways.

"I want to safely meet our children and then figure out how to talk about it."

Lena and Luis married after just seven months together and the 39-year-old actress-and-writer admitted she is relieved she didn't meet him earlier in her life.

She said: "Whenever I look at old photos of Lou, I just think he would have ruined my life in my twenties.

"We would have spent an afternoon together and it would have been the best time of my life and I never would have heard from him again. And then he would have popped up six months later being like, 'I'm back from tour.' "

When they first met, Lena thought Luis was the weirdest person she'd ever met but they quickly fell hard for one another.

She said: "It wasn't possible to resist it. It just felt like: this is what's happening. This is what it is."

The couple are very happy together but argue over Lena's obsession with reality TV shows.

She said: "Lou thinks it's an expression of the apocalypse, and I'm like, 'It is a medium for women and queer people to express themselves and allows previously unseen people and communities to show their talent.'

"If I came up with some of that as a comedy writer, I would retire. I love it all."

The pair share their "ropey house" in north London with two dogs and five cats.

Lena said: "There are so many animals in the bed. I can't believe I've found someone who is as with it as I am."

The Too Much creator rose to fame when she created and starred in Girls, and looking back at the show, she thinks it is a clear reflection of her own life at the time.

She said: "That was clearly a reflection of how I saw my twenties.

"It's interesting - when I am reminded of the seasons [of Girls], I can see what I was thinking, what place I was in, when I was falling in love, when I was in pain. It's all in there.

"I also felt in my twenties there was something embarrassing about writing things that were saccharine or sincere or happy. I was much more interested in irony and satire and harshness and surprising and sometimes scandalising people.

" I felt like I needed to reflect the toughest aspects of life back to people so that they would feel less alone. And now I think maybe you can reflect the sweeter parts of life to people so they can feel hopeful."