Lionel Richie’s daughter, Sofia Richie-Grainge, is pregnant! The model is expecting her first child, a baby girl, with husband Elliot Grainge.
In a cover story with Vogue, Sofia shared that she discovered she was pregnant early on during a trip to Milan for fashion week.
“I found out very, very early,” Richie-Grainge told Vogue exclusively. “I was about four weeks pregnant. I was on a trip to Milan for fashion week, and I was going to the Prada show. I was doing a really quick 24-hour turnaround, and I felt terrible but didn’t think much of it. I thought it was jet lag.”
After taking several pregnancy tests, she discovered she was pregnant. Richie, who is now about six months along, explained that she kept the news private initially to “protect” her space.
“Pregnancy is really scary,” she said. “I didn’t realize there are so many milestones you have to hit and so many tests you have to take. For me, it was really important to protect our mental health and our space as a couple.”
She continued, “I’ve learned more in the past six months than I have in my entire life. And also just like what the female body is capable of. Every week brings new things, whether it’s hormonal shifts or expansion—there’s just so much our bodies go through, and it’s so interesting to experience it all.”
As for revealing the news to their families, the couple took a creative approach. “We went to Elliot’s parents, who live about five minutes away from us, and I think I had a box—I want to say it was a Hermès box or some sort of box—and I told everyone that I had bought them a gift from Milan Fashion Week. Everyone was like ‘Ooooh Hermes!’ But then they opened it and it had all three of the pregnancy tests [in it]. That’s how we told all of our parents.”
Sofia and Elliot married in the South of France on April 22, 2023.
