Gigi Hadid Addresses Feeling 'Too White' & Raising Mixed-Race Daughter Khai With Zayn Malik

Gigi Hadid is opening up about motherhood.

The 26-year-old model got candid in an interview with i-D about raising daughter Khai with Zayn Malik.

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During the conversation, she opened up about getting pregnant amid the pandemic.

“There’s a bittersweetness because I know that obviously COVID has been such a tragedy for so many people and families, and lives, and jobs. But there was a silver lining in the timing, in that I got to experience pregnancy and giving birth and being with my baby, and it was a reset that I would have had to make for myself, regardless. It really gave me time to experience motherhood the way I wanted to, which was without a baby nurse and without a nanny for as long as I could before I went back to work,” she said.

She also discussed raising Khai in a mixed-race household with Zayn.

“We think about it and talk about it a lot as partners and it’s something that’s really important to us, but it’s also something that we first experienced ourselves,” she said.

“Because both of our parents are their own heritage. We are that first generation of those mixed races, and then that comes with that first generational experience of being like, ‘Oh damn, I’m the bridge!’. That’s not something that my parents experienced or that they can really help me through. It’s something I’ve always thought about my whole life.”

“In certain situations, I feel – or I’m made to feel – that I’m too white to stand up for part of my Arab heritage,” she continued. (Gigi is the daughter of Yolanda and Mohamed Hadid.)

“You go through life trying to figure out where you fit in racially. Is what I am, or what I have, enough to do what I feel is right? But then, also, is that taking advantage of the privilege of having the whiteness within me, right? Am I allowed to speak for this side of me, or is that speaking on something that I don’t experience enough to know? Do you know what I’m saying?”

“I think that Khai will grow up feeling out the way that she can or wants to be a bridge for her different ethnicities. But I think that it will be nice to be able to have those conversations, and see where she comes from [with] it, without us putting that onto her. What comes from her is what I’m most excited about, and being able to add to that or answer her questions, you know?” she went on to say.

It was recently revealed that she’s helping guide another star through being a first-time parent.