{"id":293588,"date":"2026-02-12T04:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293588\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T04:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:48:13","slug":"zayn-malik-reveals-which-career-path-daughter-khai-5-may-want-to-pursue-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293588\/","title":{"rendered":"Zayn Malik Reveals Which Career Path Daughter Khai, 5, May Want to Pursue in the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zayn Malik&#8217;s daughter may be following in his footsteps<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The &#8220;Die For Me&#8221; singer sat down with Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper to talk about his career and life as a dad, where he shared the career his daughter Khai, 4, is currently interested in pursuing<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Malik welcomed his daughter in September 2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/zayn-malik\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Zayn Malik;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Zayn Malik<\/a>&#8216;s daughter may have a future in the industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the Wednesday, Feb. 11 episode of Call Her Daddy, the &#8220;Die For Me&#8221; singer, 33, opened up to host <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/all-about-alex-cooper\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alex Cooper;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alex Cooper<\/a> about the career path his daughter Khai, 4, may want to pursue. Malik, who became a dad in September 2020, shared that his little girl is really into K-Pop and currently hopes to become a K-Pop star in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;She definitely wants to be a K-Pop star,&#8221; he told Cooper, 31. &#8220;She&#8217;s big into K-Pop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Asked how he feels about the possibility of his daughter following in his footsteps, the doting dad said that he&#8217;d rather &#8220;keep her away&#8221; from the industry, but will &#8220;support her&#8221; if it makes her happy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m just gonna have to support her,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But me personally, yeah, I would like to keep her away from some of the headache that this job entails, you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Back in July, the former One Direction member shared a rare snap of himself with his daughter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/parents\/all-about-gigi-hadid-zayn-malik-daughter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Khai;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Khai<\/a>\u00a0via his Instagram Stories, as the father-daughter pair enjoyed K-Pop group BLACKPINK in concert. The picture showed Khai, whom the musician shares with his ex-girlfriend <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/gigi-hadid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gigi Hadid,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Gigi Hadid,<\/a> and Malik facing the crowd with their hands in the air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;@Blackpinkofficial thank you \ud83d\ude42 Me &amp; Khai loved it \u2764\ufe0f,&#8221; he wrote in text over the photo.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Zayn Noam Galai\/Getty\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cb3991a0680358d6af66c0347e4deb93.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE&#039;s free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Elsewhere in the podcast, the singer revealed that he gave his daughter a large sum of money when she lost her first tooth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s everything. Even to the degree that like, you know, I&#8217;m raising her in an environment that isn&#8217;t the same as everybody&#8217;s,&#8221; he told Cooper. &#8220;Her dad is a pop star. Her mom is a model, and certain things that she does in life might not always reflect what other people&#8217;s understanding of reality is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;So I think I gave her a bit too much money from the Tooth Fairy,&#8221; he added with a smile. When Cooper asked how much he gave, Malik responded, &#8220;$500.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/zayn-malik-reveals-which-career-daughter-khai-4-may-want-to-pursue-11904577\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Zayn Malik&#8217;s daughter may be following in his footsteps The &#8220;Die For Me&#8221; singer sat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[53642,93,61,60,278,28841],"class_list":{"0":"post-293588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-alex-cooper","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-zayn-malik"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}