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Gigi Hadid has revealed that her partner Zayn Malik caught their newborn daughter following a 14-hour labour at home.
The 25-year-old welcomed Khai, her first child, in September at home in Pennsylvania, with Malik, her mother Yolanda, and her sister Bella by her side.
She told Vogue magazine that due to exhaustion she had been unaware she had given birth until she looked up to see former One Direction star Malik, 28, cradling their child after catching her.
“It didn’t even click that she was out. I was so exhausted, and I looked up and he’s holding her. It was so cute,” she said. She added that she had felt like “an animal woman” during labour.
Gigi and Bella Hadid (PA)
“I know that I’m not as small as I was before, but I also am a very realistic thinker,” she said.
“I straight up was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll shoot a Vogue cover, but I’m obviously not going to be a size zero,’ nor do I, at this point, feel like I need to be back to that.
“I also think it’s a blessing of this time in fashion that anyone who says that I have to be that can suck it.”
Pop star Malik, who released the album Nobody Is Listening in January, announced he had become a father on social media in September.