Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik welcome their 1st child together
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Claudia Willen
Sep 24, 2020, 08:21 IST
Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid have been dating for several years.Mike Coppola / Getty Images
Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid welcomed their first child together, the singer announced via Twitter on Wednesday night.
"Our baby girl is here, healthy & beautiful," he wrote, alongside a photo of his daughter's hand wrapped around his finger.
The announcement comes one week after Gigi's father Mohamed Hadid shared a sweet poem for the newborn in an Instagram post.
"Hello little grandchild, it is me, my heart as happy as can be," he wrote in the letter.
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Zayn Malik, 27, and Gigi Hadid, 25, welcomed their first child together, the singer announced on Wednesday night.
"Our baby girl is here, healthy & beautiful," he tweeted. "to try put into words how i am feeling right now would be an impossible task. The love i feel for this tiny human is beyond my understanding.Grateful to know her, proud to call her mine, & thankful for the life we will have together x."
The announcement was accompanied by a photo of the baby's hand wrapped around her father's finger.
The announcement comes one week after the supermodel's father, Mohamed Hadid, shared a handwritten note for his granddaughter on Instagram.
"Hello little grandchild, it is me, my heart as happy as can be. I wish for you the sun & moon, I wish for you a happy time," the real estate developer wrote.
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He continued, "Know that Grandpa's always near, I'll do anything, anything for you my dear. When I heard you were on the way, I smiled and wiped a tear away. I cried the tear because I knew, my heart would always belong to you."
Malik and Hadid met at the 2015 Victoria's Secret after-party, where the former One Direction recognized the model "from her picture," he told the Evening Standard. He asked her to have dinner with him at a New York City restaurant called Gemma.
"She's a very intelligent woman. She knows how to carry herself. She's quite classy and that. She's not, like, arrogant in any way, she's confident. She carries it well. She's cool," he told the outlet.
While many moments have convinced fans the supermodel and musician are destined to end up together — like Hadid's intimate appearance in Malik's video "Pillow Talk," the singer's chest tattoo of her eyes, and numerous joint Vogue covers — there have also been several breakups.
Hopeful fans looked forward to watching Malik and Hadid ease back into their relationship, based on their past behavior during former reconciliations, but were caught by surprise after TMZ reported that they were expecting their first child together in April 2020.
The model's mother, Yolanda Hadid, then confirmed the news to Dutch media outlet RTL Boulevard, revealing that her daughter is due in September.
"I'm excited to become an Oma in September especially after I lost my mom so recently. But this is the beauty of life: One soul leaves us and a new one comes in. We feel very blessed," she said, according to People's translation.
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Days later, the supermodel said she wished she and Malik could've "announced it on our own terms" but added that she was "very excited and happy and grateful for everyone's well-wishes and support" on an episode of "The Tonight Show."
Hadid has previously kept details about her pregnancy off social media, telling fans that she wanted to use her platform to focus on the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests during an Instagram Livestream in July.
"I think a lot of people are confused why I'm not sharing more but like, I'm pregnant through a pandemic, like obviously my pregnancy is not the most important thing going on in the world," she said.
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