
Whatever those learning-the-hard-way experiences are, you grow a certain skin,” she said. Or just feel like you revealed too much, and it was taken advantage of. Sometimes you just leave something feeling like you were taken out of context. “I’ve had early experiences where you learn how the world reacts when you share things in certain ways. She also has a better sense of what line she wants to draw between her public and private life. Hadid is in therapy, like her sister Bella Hadid, which has helped her cope with the fashion industry and life in the public eye. It’s a different experience for me, and it was the right time because I was ready for that.” I don’t have to look a certain way to show up.

“It kept coming back to just a more stabilized schedule where I’m not in a different country every week. “I got pregnant and I really started to think about what I wanted after, when the world opened back up,” she said. The coronavirus pandemic and her pregnancy greatly changed her priorities, Hadid said. Being at shows and shoots and just being in the city again being around friends becoming a mom, with everyone also coming out of COVID-I have an appreciation for both sides of it.” Having a daughter, although it shifted my life to make me really want to feel more settled, has also really made me appreciate the chaos as well. We’re up chatting in the middle of the night if she’s up we’re talking about, I don’t know, random stuff, but it’s fun. “I think that she has a really realistic kind of 24/7, around-the-clock view. “She obviously sees me in every state and way, and whether she knows it or not, I’m going through and learning through life with her,” Hadid explained later. There are a lot of snapshots and really quick moments where, again, there’s not a lot of context given.” She expressed hope that her hosting gig for Netflix's Next in Fashion would let people get to know her more deeply. She wiped away her tears and added, “Apparently, I needed to say it. It’s more that in my job, you see a lot of snapshots.”

“I think that I’m someone who you have to be in front of to experience. “What does the world not know about me? I don’t know. She teared up when asked what people wouldn't know about her from the media coverage or her Instagram posts. Hadid's relationship with Malik and rumored romance with Leonardo DiCaprio are just a small sampling of the kind of headlines she generates. She also shared how her now-two-year-old sees her and how she copes with media attention. Hadid spoke to the magazine about how her pregnancy with her and ex-boyfriend Zayn Malik's daughter, Khai, changed her priorities. Gigi Hadid is selective about the parts of her life she shares on social media, but, as she tells ELLEin her March 2023 cover story, she's ready for the world to know her as more than just the picturesque model.
