Gigi Hadid Says She & Zayn Malik ‘Have Each Other’s Backs’ While Co-Parenting Daughter Khai

Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik may not be a couple anymore, but they’ll always be on the same team thanks to their daughter, Khai.

In a Vogue cover story published Tuesday (March 11), the model got candid about her co-parenting relationship with the former One Direction star. She and Malik dated for about six years — and welcomed Khai in September 2020 — before calling it quits in 2021 following a dispute between the singer and Gigi’s mother, Yolanda Hadid.

“Zayn and I do our custody schedules months in advance,” the Victoria’s Secret Angel told the publication, noting that she and her ex plan everything around the weeks they respectively have their daughter. “That doesn’t mean that it doesn’t change here and there, but we help each other out and have each other’s backs.”

Gigi went on to say that she and Malik both approach their co-parenting relationship with “love and a feeling of camaraderie,” though it’s sometimes difficult knowing that parts of their history will forever be public knowledge. Though she didn’t mention it specifically, one of the most talked-about moments in the former couple’s relationship — and subsequent breakup — is definitely the 2021 incident in which Malik was accused of grabbing and shoving Yolanda. The “Pillowtalk” singer later pleaded no contest to four counts of harassment and agreed to serve 360 days of probation as well as complete anger management and domestic violence programs.

“There is the hard part of the world knowing this much, and thinking they know everything,” Gigi told Vogue. “At the end of the day, we’re not interested in giving everyone our whole story. What we are interested in is raising our daughter together, with so much respect for each other, and not just as co-parents, but what we’ve been through together.”

Gigi is now dating actor Bradley Cooper, whom she met at a birthday party for a mutual friend’s child. Calling their relationship “very romantic and happy,” the model said, “I think just getting to the point where knowing what you want and deserve in a relationship is essential.”

“Then to find someone that is in a place in their life where they know what they want and deserve … and you both do work separately to come together and be the best partner that you can be,” she added. “I just feel really lucky. Yeah, lucky’s the word.”

See Gigi on the cover of Vogue below.