Malik caught the baby. “It did not even click that she was out,” Gigi said, looking forward through Dallas’ watchful ears as we passed through the upper fields of Harmony Hollow, the farm owned by Yolanda’s boyfriend, Joseph Jingoli, a CEO, build. ‘I was so exhausted, and I looked up and he was holding her. It was so cute. ”
She’s in a cropped North Face puffer, stretching Zara jeans and worn black riding shoes, and does not look like a hurried mother of a ten-week-old or a paparazzi supermodel. With her hair in a smooth bun, bald face and small gold ring earrings, she mostly looks like her teenage self, a rider who flaunts competitively during her growing up years in Santa Barbara, California.
“What I really wanted from my experience was to feel, ‘Okay, this is a natural thing women are meant to do.’ She was planning to give birth in a New York hospital, but then came the realities of COVID – especially here, 90 minutes from Manhattan, and the restrictions on numbers in the maternity ward, which would prevent Yolanda and Bella would be present. . Then she and Malik watched the 2008 documentary The business of birth, which is critical of medical interventions and depicts a successful home birth. “We both looked at each other and were like, I think this is the call,” says Gigi.
They were putting an inflatable bath in their bedroom and sending their three cats and a border collie away when the midwife expressed concern that the sphynx and Maine cat cats might stab the bath with their claws. Malik asks Gigi what music she wants to hear, and she surprises him by asking for the sound of a favorite children’s novel, The Indian in the closet. He downloaded the movie because it was also one of his favorites, and they devoted the early hours of labor to watching it together. “It’s something we’ve never talked about before, but at that moment we discovered we both love,” Gigi said obsessively. She then tells me that Malik, the former One Direction star, has become a solo artist, who is notoriously press-shy (Gigi’s publicity refused an interview on his behalf), comparing his own experience of her birth to a lion documentary what he saw. which moves a lion male nervously outside the cave while the lioness delivers her cubs. ‘Z was like,’ This is how I felt! You feel so helpless to see the person you love in pain. ‘”
Full spectrum
In high school, I used Xerox’s Steven Meisel’s photos and colored them in pencil. When I was asked to do a cover story for Vogue’s creativity issue, I thought back to the first creative output. 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’s Zoom doula, Carson Meyer, Malibu’s high classmate, prepared her for the moment when the mother feels she can no longer go without drugs. “I had to dig deep,” Gigi said. “I knew it would be the craziest pain in my life, but you have to surrender to it and be like, ‘This is what it is.’ “I loved it. Yolanda and the midwife led Gigi through the pain. “There was definitely a point where I was, I wonder what it would be like with an epidural, how it would be different,” Gigi says honestly. My midwife looked at me and was like, ‘You do it. No one can help you. You are past the point of the epidural condition anyway, so you would be pushing exactly the same into a hospital bed. ” She keeps pushing.