Zayn Malik reflected on his past relationship with fashion model Gigi Hadid, with whom he has a daughter with, on the podcast “Call Her Daddy.”<\/p>\n
Host Alex Cooper brought up an old interview of Zayn saying that he doesn’t “know if I’ve ever truly been in love,” and asked if he still stands by that.<\/p>\n
The singer answered yes and explained that his understanding of love is “always developing.”<\/p>\n
“At that moment in time, I might\u2019ve thought it was love, but as I\u2019ve gotten older, I\u2019ve realized maybe it wasn\u2019t. Maybe it was lust, maybe it was this, maybe it was that. I don\u2019t feel like it was love,” he said.<\/p>\n
Zayn then brought up Gigi, and put it on record that he will always love her because “she’s the reason my child is on this Earth.”<\/p>\n
“And I have the utmost respect for her. I will always love her, but I don\u2019t know if I was ever in love with her,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I have so much respect for this woman and I do love her, a crazy amount, but no. I don\u2019t think I was in love with her at that point, otherwise I would\u2019ve been a better version of myself,” he added.<\/p>\n
Zayn and Gigi were first linked in 2015, and had an on-again, off-again relationship until finally breaking up for good in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n