Former One Direction, Zayn Malik welcomes baby with Gigi Hadid

Former One Direction bandmate, Zayn Malik, and US model Gigi Hadid have welcomed a baby girl.

Announcing the birth on Twitter and Instagram, Malik, 27, shared a black-and-white picture of the baby girl’s tiny hand clutching his finger, much to the fans’ surprise.

He wrote alongside the image: “The love I feel for this tiny human is beyond my understanding.”

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 pic.twitter.com/nvhfOkk2fw

— zayn (@zaynmalik) September 24, 2020

The couple have been dating on and off since late 2015.