What’s up?
It’s Emile Ennis Jr. here with Clevver News and Gigi Hadid just gave her first in depth
interview since giving birth and she discussed being like ‘an animal woman’, intimate
details about her birth story to how she and Zayn Malik plan on raising their daughter.
Let’s get into it!
Gigi Hadid is Vogue’s March 2021 cover star and she took to Instagram to share the exciting
news.
Alongside the gorgeous cover photo, Gigi wrote quote, “Who would have thought I’d be
feeding my baby girl her morning bottle as we share my first @voguemagazine solo cover
?! I am emotional and honored to take my first professional step, in this new chapter of
womanhood, with this dream come true!”
And in her Vogue interview, Gigi dished on all things motherhood, labor and delivery,
and her child’s privacy.
You guys, she really laid it all out and I cannot say how impressed I am with Gigi’s
animal-like nature!
For her delivery, Gigi and Zayn decided to go with a home birth at their house in Pennsylvania.
Gigi revealed that she had originally planned to give birth at a New York City hospital,
but because the lockdown restrictions would've kept her mom and sister out of her delivery
room, Gigi changed her birth plan.
Z &G went with a water birth in their home with Gigi surrounded by Zayn, her mom Yolanda,
her sister Bella, her midwife, and her assistant for her 14 hours in labor.
With this decision, Gigi also opted to deliver completely naturally with no drugs or epidurals
to ease the pain.
She told Vogue, “When you see someone do that, you look at them a bit differently.
I probably looked crazy, actually.
I was an animal woman.”
Gigi dished on how she got through the intense hours of labor pains saying quote, “I had
to dig deep.
I knew it was going to be the craziest pain in my life, but you have to surrender to it
and be like, ‘This is what it is.’
I loved that.”
She said there were points during her long labor when she wondered what her birth experience
would’ve been like with an epidural, but her midwife looked at her and said “‘You’re
doing it.
No one can help you.
You’re past the point of the epidural anyway, so you’d be pushing exactly the same way
in a hospital bed.'"
Gigi said that Zayn, her mom, and her sister were all proud of her, but she said “at
certain points I saw each of them in terror.”
Zayn told Vogue, via Gigi’s assistant, he “likened his own experience of her birth
to a lion documentary he’d seen in which a male lion paces nervously outside the cave
while the lioness delivers her cubs.”
She said there were points when Zayn felt “helpless to see the person he loves in
pain” but she really wanted her experience to feel like quote “a natural thing that
women are meant to do.”
And Gigi looked back fondly on the moment that their daughter Khai finally came out
and Zayn was there to catch her, literally!
She said quote, “It didn’t even click that she was out.
I was so exhausted, and I looked up and he’s holding her.
It was so cute.”
Aside from her birth story, Gigi also shared how she and Zayn plan to raise Khai.
She revealed that they intend to raise their daughter at their home near her family’s
farm in Pennsylvania, rather than her NYC apartment.
Gigi said quote, “I think she’ll definitely be raised here.
The greenery and the farm-y lifestyle are similar to what made me feel really centered
as a kid, and I think that’s really important to Zayn and me.
I think that just giving your child the opportunity to explore different interests is such a beautiful
thing.”
She also added that this will also apply to religion.
In case you didn’t know, Zayn is Muslim, while Gigi was raised with both Christian
and Muslim traditions because of her parents' different religions.
Gigi said quote, “I think that [Zayn and I] both want our daughter to understand fully
all of her background — and also we want to prepare her.
If someone does say something to her at school, we want to give her the tools to understand
why other kids would do that and where that comes from.”
And as for her daughter’s privacy, well, if you were waiting to see a photo of Gigi
and Zayn’s daughter, I wouldn’t hold your breath.
Gigi spoke about raising her daughter privately, saying quote, “I have friends who are public
figures and that’s how they’ve gone about it, and I see their kids really blossom in
a different way.”
Gigi said she turned to Blake Lively, who she met through their mutual friend Taylor
Swift, as an example.
Blake spoke to Vogue about the advice she gave Gigi saying quote, “I told her you
have to do what works for you.
Gigi has a really special relationship with her fans, and I love how open she is on social
media.
I love seeing into her world.
I’m grateful for what she shares, but also understand whatever boundaries she chooses
to set.”
And while Gigi doesn’t feel a rush to get fully back into her busy work schedule, she
did say that she and Zayn don’t plan on having any more kids for a little while.
After her long labor and natural delivery, Gigi and Zayn are focusing on Khai for now,
with Gigi saying quote, “Afterward, Z and I looked at each other and were like, we can
have some time before we do that again.”
And we couldn’t be happier for Gigi and Zayn.
We love their adorable little family and we appreciate all the sweet moments they do decide
to share with fans.
If you want more on Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik, click right over here for another Clevver
News video.
Also, let us know down in the comments below what you think of Gigi’s birth story.
I’m your host Emile Ennis Jr., bye guys!