{"id":13204,"date":"2021-02-10T22:15:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T11:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=185677"},"modified":"2021-02-11T13:51:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T13:51:39","slug":"working-mom-gigi-hadid-gets-back-to-the-office","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/working-mom-gigi-hadid-gets-back-to-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"“Working Mom” Gigi Hadid Gets Back To The Office"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW YORK, NY – DECEMBER 19: Gigi Hadid is seen in SoHo on December 19, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Raymond Hall\/GC Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When a supermodel like Gigi Hadid returns to work after having a baby, is the juggle and struggle just as real as it is for the rest of us?<\/p>\n

Returning to work after having a baby is a bit like living in an alternate universe. Whether you\u2019re five weeks or five years postpartum, reentering the office or reconnecting your business after birthing is like taking the TARDIS back to a time when you were just you –\u00a0 not mother-you. Except now, you\u2019re from the future where everything is exhausting and you can\u2019t remember anything.<\/p>\n

While mother-you still looks like you and sounds like you, this new version can\u2019t shake the feeling it also has a giant sign pinned to it that says \u201cI HAVE A BABY.\u201d While everything around you seems to be consistent and vastly unchanged, your world spins on a brand new axis, one that gets to dash to the supermarket after work now, not the bar.<\/p>\n

Today, model and mother to Khai, <\/a>Gigi Hadid, posted a series of pictures from a beauty shoot in a Manhattan studio. She captioned it \u201cback to early NYC mornings w my Maybelline team.\u201d<\/em> The photos seem to be an outtake from the same shoot she posted selfies from back on Jan 29, which she captioned \u201cworking 9 – 5\u201d.<\/em> I don\u2019t know Gigi, but the recurrent theme of workplace OMG\u2019s probably means she\u2019s got the internal alien discourse going on too.<\/p>\n

Her father, Mohamed Hadid, commented on today\u2019s post with \u201ca working Mom. And yes that all her real hair<\/em> [sic].\u201d Not sure what the hair part had to do with, but he\u2019s clearly a proud dad.<\/p>\n

However, when you\u2019re a mother and you work, you\u2019re a \u201cworking mom.\u201d As Gigi’s father iterated. It’s commonplace for such labeling to occur, I get it all the time; however, I don’t think anyone has ever referred to my husband as a \u201cworking dad.\u201d And, I haven\u2019t checked, but it\u2019s unlikely anyone comments on Zayn\u2019s pictures with \u201cworking Dad\u201d either (we\u2019ll assume he\u2019s also wearing his own hair). Categorizing traditional parenting roles pressures both sides of the team. A pressure that reminds women they\u2019ll be forever split by home life and work life, and that men should press on as though nothing has changed.<\/p>\n

To be honest though, I don\u2019t mind the label \u201cworking mom.\u201d If you look at it as less about pigeonholing and more as a badge of honor, then it’s supportive and progressive. Most working women who are also mothers leave their day office to go home to their other office. The one where employees act like unreasonable bosses and the KPIs are designed for failure.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Gigi\u2019s return to work is a little different from the average woman\u2019s daily grind, but it\u2019s her new reality nonetheless. Mentally, physically, emotionally, there’s a lot to get your head around in those first weeks. While some women work far from home, some part time, some from the next room, and some at night in pajamas, writing until 1am (Hi!), we all check the box “working mom” and it’s hard in a multitude of ways. But mostly, we’re all just trying to do our best – Zooming while feeding, doing deals while signing kindergarten forms, reading presentations while researching different types of kids’ rashes.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re all working, we\u2019re all mothering and we\u2019re all doing it in our real hair.<\/p>\n

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