Gigi Hadid explains how having baby Khai changed the course of her career: 'You can't model forever'
Becoming a mother has made Gigi Hadid reimagine her career.
During an October interview with Vogue, the model discussed her new cashmere label Guest in Residence, and shared how her pregnancy with her daughter Khai helped her realize that her career needed to switch course.
The 27-year-old told the magazine, “You can’t model forever. I was creative and that is where I saw my life going. I already had been thinking about cashmere, but I think it [pregnancy] just made me think about how much more settled I would feel to have an office space job. I can take my daughter there with me.”
This is not the first time the new mom has voiced wanting to settle down. In a 2021 interview with Vogue, Hadid, who shares her two-year-old daughter with former One Direction star Zayn Malik, explained that post-birth she was “veering toward things that feel more stable than being in a different country every week,” and that she wants to raise Khai on the farm she owns in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, rather than Los Angeles or New York.
“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," she told the outlet. “I think that just giving your child the opportunity to explore different interests is such a beautiful thing.”
In a May 2021 Instagram post, she shared a rare series of photos of her child in honor of Mother’s Day.
“The rumors are true: my best friend, purpose, muse, greatest pride & joy! I feel so lucky and inspired being your mama, my Khai,” she wrote at the time. “An old soul full of sunshine, you light up everyone’s days!”
Hadid recently gushed about her now two-year-old daughter during a September episode of Sunday Today with Willie Geist. Hadid said, “I think she's a genius. That's what everyone says about their kid. It's so much fun. The more that she talks and understands and remembers it just gets more and more fun and she's a blessing.”
She shared that Khai is very “mobile” at the moment, which adds an additional complication to parenting the toddler.
"Jumping off things. Very brave, which is great, but you know,” she explained. “We're practicing doing dangerous things carefully. That’s what I’m going to go for.”
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