Malik took the baby. “It didn’t even click that she was out,” says Gigi, looking forward to Dallas’ watchful ears as we walked through the upper fields of Harmony Hollow, the farm owned by Yolanda’s boyfriend, Joseph Jingoli, CEO of a construction company. “I was so exhausted, I looked up and he was holding it. It was so cute. “
She is wearing a cut North Face blowfish, Zara stretch jeans and worn black riding boots, and looks neither like a hurried mother of a 10-week-old son nor a supermodel who dodges paparazzi. With her hair in a straight bun, naked face and small gold hoop earrings, she looks mostly like her teenager, an equestrienne who jumped competitively while growing up in her hometown, Santa Barbara, California.
“What I really wanted from my experience was to feel like, Okay, this is a natural thing for women to do.” She planned to give birth in a New York City hospital, but then the reality of COVID hit – particularly kidnapping here, 90 minutes from Manhattan, and the number limits in the delivery room, which would have prevented Yolanda and Bella from be present. So she and Malik watched the 2008 documentary The Business of Being Born, which criticizes medical interventions and describes a successful home birth. “We both look at each other and think, I think that’s the decision,” says Gigi.
They put an inflatable tub in their room and sent their three cats and border collies away when the midwife expressed concern that the sphynx and Maine Coon cats could pierce the tub with their claws. Malik asked Gigi what song she wanted to hear, and she surprised him by requesting audio for a favorite children’s novel, The Indian in the closet. He downloaded the movie because it was one of his favorites too, and they spent the first few hours of labor watching it together. “This is something we had never talked about, but at that moment we discovered that we both love it,” Gigi says timidly. She then told me that Malik, the former One Direction star who became a solo artist, who is notoriously shy with the press (Gigi’s aide refused on his behalf to an interview), compared her own experience of her birth to a documentary. about a lion he saw in which a male lion nervously walks out of the cave while the lioness delivers her young. “Z was like, ‘That’s how I felt! You feel so powerless to see the person you love in pain. ‘”
Full spectrum
“In high school, I used to take pictures of Steven Meisel and paint them with pencils. When asked to do a cover story for Vogue’s creativity problem, I thought of that first creative result. It was a way to play with the idea of fantasy in fashion, ”says Ethan James Green about his inspiration for this digital cover.
Gigi Doula Zoom, classmate from Malibu High, Carson Meyer, prepared her for the moment when her mother feels she can no longer live without drugs. “I had to dig deep,” says Gigi. “I knew it was going to be the craziest pain of my life, but you have to surrender to it and be like, ‘That’s what it is.’ I loved it. ”Yolanda and the midwife trained Gigi during the pain. “There was definitely a point where I was like, I wonder what it would be like with an epidural, how it would be different,” says Gigi frankly. “My midwife looked at me and said, ‘You are doing this. No one can help YOU. You have already passed the epidural point, so you would be pushing in exactly the same way on a hospital bed. ‘”So she kept pushing.