Malik grabbed the baby. “He didn’t even click to get out,” says Gigi, watching intently through Dallas’ alert ears as we walk through the upper fields of Harmony Hollow, the farm owned by Yolanda’s boyfriend Joseph Jingoli, a CEO of the construction company. “I was so exhausted and I looked up and he is holding her. It was so cute. ”
She’s in a cropped North Face buffer, stretchy Zara jeans and black riding boots, and she doesn’t look like a harassed 10-week-old mother or a paparazzi supermodel. With her hair tied in a smooth bun, her face bare and her little gold earrings, she looks mostly like her teenage self, an equestrienne who threw herself competitively while growing up in her hometown of Santa Barbara, California.
“What I really wanted from my experience was to feel that, well, this is a natural thing that women are meant to do.” He had planned to deliver to a hospital in New York, but the realities of COVID hit – especially the seizure here, 90 minutes from Manhattan and the limits of the number in the delivery room, which would have prevented Yolanda and Bella from being present. . She and Malik then watched the 2008 documentary The business of being born, which is critical for medical interventions and describes a successful home birth. “We both looked at each other and we were, I think that’s the call,” says Gigi.
They put an explosive bath in the bedroom and sent their three cats and border collie when the midwife expressed concern that the sphinx and Maine Coon cats might put the claw tub. Malik asked Gigi what music he wanted to hear and caught him asking for the sound of a favorite children’s novel, The Indian in the closet. He downloaded the film because it was also one of his favorites and they spent the first hours of work watching it together. “I never talked about it, but at that moment I discovered that we both loved each other,” says Gigi blasphemously. Then she told me that Malik, the former One Direction star, became a solo artist, who is very shy in the press (Gigi’s publicist refused an interview on her behalf), compared her own experience of her birth to a documentary about the lion in which he saw a male lion walking nervously outside the cave while the lioness delivers her cubs. “It was like, ‘That’s how I felt!’ You feel so helpless to see in pain the person you love. ‘”
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“In high school I used to take pictures of Xerox Steven Meisel and color them with pencil. When I was asked to do a cover story for Vogue’s creativity, I thought of that first creative outlet. It was a way to play with the idea of fashion fantasy “, says Ethan James Green about his inspiration for this digital cover.
Gigi’s Zoom doula, Malibu classmate Carson Meyer, had prepared her for the moment when her mother felt she could no longer walk without drugs. “I had to dig deep,” says Gigi. “I knew it would be the craziest pain of my life, but you have to surrender and say, ‘That’s right. ” I liked this. “Yolanda and the midwife trained Gigi in pain. “There was definitely a time when I was, I wonder what it would be like with an epidural, how it would be different,” says Gigi honestly. “My midwife looked at me and said, ‘You’re doing it. No one can help you. You passed the epidural anyway, so you would have been pushed in exactly the same way into a hospital bed.