Zayn Malik shares rare insight into balancing fatherhood with career after welcoming daughter Khai

‘I spend a lot of time with them’: Zayn Malik shares rare insight into balancing fatherhood with his career after welcoming daughter Khai

Zayn Malik has shared rare insight into balancing fatherhood with his career after welcoming his daughter Khai with his girlfriend Gigi Hadid last September.

In a new interview, the former One Direction star, 28, revealed how he juggles his busy lifestyle, which sees him spending ‘a lot of time’ with the model, 26, and their seven-month-old in the day, and write his music at night. 

The singer said on a recent episode of the Zach Sang podcast:  ‘I’ve spent a lot of time with my little girl and my missus. When I can get the evening to myself I do a bit of writing and [Gigi] is really cool about it.’

‘I spend a lot of time with them’: Zayn Malik has shared rare insight into balancing fatherhood with his career after welcoming his daughter Khai with his girlfriend Gigi Hadid last September

Bradford native Zayn also revealed he has dedicated his third studio album, Nobody Is Listening, to his little girl.

The former X Factor star added: ‘I related my album to my baby – it’s part of you and you want to share it with your world.’

The musician echoed his comments in another discussion on iHeartRadio, sharing: ‘I didn’t expect to be quite as into it [fatherhood] to be honest with you… 

‘I just love hanging out with her [Khai]… It’s a really different pace of life, but it’s been really easy to adjust and that’s the most surprising.

Candid: The ex-1D star, 28, revealed how he juggles his busy lifestyle, which sees him spending time with the model, 26, and their seven-month-old in the day, and write his music at night

Candid: The ex-1D star, 28, revealed how he juggles his busy lifestyle, which sees him spending time with the model, 26, and their seven-month-old in the day, and write his music at night

Doting: 'When I can get the evening to myself I do a bit of writing and [Gigi] is really cool about it', the musician said

Doting: ‘When I can get the evening to myself I do a bit of writing and [Gigi] is really cool about it’, the musician said

‘Honestly, it’s amazing. A lot of people that I was speaking to obviously before she was born and stuff were like you know it’s a big adjustment and it’s going to be a massive change and stuff, but honestly she’s an amazing baby. 

‘It’s been really easy for me and Gig to kind of just ease into it. She’s made it really easy for us, she sleeps really well and she loves her milk,

‘It’s just feeding and changing diapers at the moment. It’s wicked, I’m enjoying it for sure. I didn’t expect to be quite as into it to be honest with you. 

‘I’m always into myself just doing my own thing of just writing, recording, making music, and I was just very focused on my career, I had time for my relationship too, but it was still solely about me.

‘The fact that she [Khai] has been so easy to kind of just adjust to, it’s been surprising to me because I just love spending my days with her, hanging out with her, and just doing really relaxing and chill stuff with her.’

Priorities: The artist previously revealed his love of parenthood has taken him by surprise after his little girl Khai made leaving his rockstar lifestyle behind 'easy'

Priorities: The artist previously revealed his love of parenthood has taken him by surprise after his little girl Khai made leaving his rockstar lifestyle behind ‘easy’

Zayn and catwalk queen Gigi were excited to announce the birth of their first child back in September following a 14-hour natural water birth at the Bucks County, PA farmhouse he purchased back in 2017.

The What Makes You Beautiful hitmaker wrote at the time: ‘Our baby girl is here, healthy & beautiful. 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 couple are doting parents and have not hired a nanny to help care for little Khai, whose name (meaning ‘crown’ in Arabic) is a tribute to Gigi’s late grandmother Khairiah.

Sweet: The couple are parents and have not hired a nanny to help care for little Khai, whose name (meaning 'crown' in Arabic) is a tribute to Gigi's late grandmother Khairiah

Sweet: The couple are parents and have not hired a nanny to help care for little Khai, whose name (meaning ‘crown’ in Arabic) is a tribute to Gigi’s late grandmother Khairiah