I wasn’t really surprised by the fact that Gigi Hadid got pregnant by Zayn Malik. What did surprise me was that she seemingly got pregnant within weeks of getting back with Zayn? That’s unusual, especially given Gigi’s 2019 vibe, which was – for most of the year – all about how she was having a good time as a single girl, she was dating and having fun and spending time with friends. And then BOOM, she gets back with Zayn and gets pregnant. My concern at the moment is not that Gigi is utterly unprepared – I think she’ll be a good mom, actually – but about the state of her relationship with Zayn, who has always seemed, I don’t know, rather moody about settling down in such a bougie, happy-family existence. But People Magazine’s sources insist that Zayn and Gigi are both “thrilled.”
Gigi Hadid’s pregnancy may not have been planned, but it was a happy surprise for the supermodel and her singer beau Zayn Malik. Hadid — who’s due in September — confirmed last week to Jimmy Fallon that she and Malik are expecting their first child together. Sources close to the couple tell PEOPLE exclusively the stars are “thrilled” about the baby and their next chapter together.
“They’ve been through their ups and downs, but neither stopped caring about the other,” says a fashion world source. “They’ve jumped on the timing of having a baby and are preparing for their new lives.”
Both Hadid, 25, and Malik, 27, come from large families, and a Hadid insider says the model has always dreamed of having multiple children.
“Gigi is young but always said she wants several kids,” says the insider. “She’s sensitive and nurturing and will be a great mom.”
The couple have been social distancing with her family at mom Yolanda Hadid’s Pennsylvania farm amid the coronavirus pandemic, and the slower pace of life has been an unexpected bonus for Hadid.
I am sure that Gigi always thought that she would have a lot of kids. Maybe that’s her goal. But is it Zayn’s? I don’t know. I get the same feeling from them that I get from Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom: that babies don’t fix everything, and I’m glad those women are independently wealthy with big support systems. There are also Zayn stans who believe that his new tattoo – a Khalil Gibran poem about marriage – is some kind of signal that he has proposed or will propose to Gigi. I mean, I think he probably already proposed to her, don’t you think? Many men do when their girlfriends are pregnant.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid & Avalon Red.
Khalil Gibran is my favorite. Awesome
Poor Bella. If she did not already have a huge case of Jan Brady syndrome she probably does now. Especially since she is broken up with her superstar boyfriend while her sister is pregnant by her superstar boyfriend and her brother is isolating with his superstar girlfriend. Bella is actually my favorite Hadid but she has terrible luck in her personal life
I mean is Zayn a superstar? I really enjoyed his first album but because he didn’t promote or tour it, it kinda fell off the tracks prematurely. He’s really only known for 1D. It doesn’t seem like he plans on fixing that anytime soon either. I think both Zayn and Gigi will be washed up stars reliant on their previous fame in the upcoming years.
Zayn doesn’t seem to be interested in anything anymore, so yeah I’ll be curious how long he is “thrilled” over a child.
Bella is fine.
@michael of course a man would think being single means having little luck in life. You do realize that women exist outside of their romantic relationships with men???
Just because men have no personal life outside of their romantic relationship doesn’t mean it’s the same for women.
How is Gigi from a big family? There are 3 kids in her family.
Plus two older sisters from Mohamad’s first marriage. They are also very close
Why do people focus on her age so much? 25 is not that young to be a mom. She has been working for years, she’s financially independent, this isn’t scandalous. When you pass 30 people go “Ohh better hurry up” but 25 is young. So when are we actually supposed to have kids?
She’ll be fine, I hope they stay together.
I agree. She’s a grown-ass adult. This isn’t a teen pregnancy.
Lol let’s criticize every woman who doesn’t have her first child at 27 1/2!
Good point
Zayn is kinda sexy. I’m getting young Colin Farrel vibes from these photos.
I wish Gigi all the best
Colin Farrell yes!!!!
That boy just seems like a lot of work. The kind of guy who’s a moody jerk, but you put up with it because he’s genius and he’s just intense.
A decade later that just reads selfish, shallow jerk.
And that’s the vibe I get from him.
I cannot take him seriously, he looks like a kid to me,
and his face is somewhat “whiney” if you know what i mean, as if he’s in constant pain.
I think it’s kind of a bummer for them to permanently be described as “ on and off again” or “ up and down”
I think Zayn went thru some addiction issues and Gigi stepped away til he could get clean.
By the statements they made after they’re break up it was clear they still adored eachother. I’m rooting for them & you know they’ll have gorgeous babies
I think this narrative that she’s a “young” mom is kinda weird. As another poster said upthread, once people turn 30 it’s all about babies, so she’s not too far off. She’s a grown woman with a career. I’m 27 and personally am not ready to have kids, but not because I feel I’m too young or lack life experience.
A lot of women are waiting longer to have kids these days because they go to college, sometimes graduate school, and want to focus on their careers for a while before marriage and babies. Gigi’s life has been quite different from that, so it makes sense that she’s ready to settle down a little sooner.
That child is going to be gorgeous.
Personally, all the people I know who got married or had kids before 30 are either divorced and on marriage #2 or 3 or are miserable, so generally speaking, I would not advise anyone to get married or have kids too early. But this is from my own experiences with average Americans/Canadians.
I also had an interesting conversation with my Irish friend and separately with a Dutch couple. They both stated the same thing: Americans and Canadians seem to, in their view, get married and have children too young. The couple waited until 10+ years after grad school for both of them and settling into their careers to get married and then have a baby, well into their 30’s. My Irish friend has been with her bf 10 years and no engagement or baby on the horizon and she is 33.
I am 39 and just feel mature enough now to get married—had I married in my early 20’s to either of my long term bfs, I can assure you it would have ended in divorce. I was far too young and immature to make such a life long commitment.
I think it really depends on who you are, as a person.
My hubby and I have been going strong for 24 years, now, and we had our first child when I was 24. It can work.
But good for you in recognizing that you, yourself, weren’t ready until now.