All The Times Babies Have Stolen The Show In British Vogue
“We really planned it,” a beaming Suki Waterhouse tells Olivia Marks in the August 2024 issue of British Vogue, of starting a family with her partner of six years, Robert Pattinson. The London It-girl turned actor and LA mum – who appears on the August cover with her baby daughter wrapped inside her Bottega Veneta coat – fell pregnant just as her efforts to pivot her career to music were really taking shape. “One day we looked at each other and said, ‘Well, this is as ready as we’re going to be’,” she notes of what some might consider less than ideal timing. But then, Waterhouse loves to keep things interesting: “I was like, ‘What can make more chaos?’” she says, laughing.
Suki’s baby daughter is not the only bundle of joy to grace the pages of British Vogue. Here, we reveal all the times they’ve stolen the limelight, and also, our hearts.
Colin Dodgson1/6Suki Waterhouse and her baby daughter, 2024
“Now I have this anchor,” Suki Waterhouse says in the August 2024 issue of British Vogue, describing her joy at starting a family with Robert Pattinson. “And I’m so happy all the time to go home and see her little gummy smile.”
Inez & Vinoodh2/6Rihanna and her baby son, 2023
“Essentially, from one person I became two. You walk into the hospital as a couple and leave as a family of three,” Rihanna said of her experience of becoming a mother. For British Vogue’s March 2023 issue, the baddest girl in music was photographed for the first time alongside her partner A$AP Rocky and her nine-month year old, by Inez & Vinoodh.
Venetia Scott3/6Liv Tyler and her son Sailor, 2015
Back in 2015, Kate Moss styled her long-time friend Liv Tyler for a British Vogue photoshoot shot by Venetia Scott that also starred her young baby son Sailor. “I hadn’t been pregnant for ten years; so to feel that again was amazing…” Tyler enthused at the time. Amongst country house vignettes and elegant autumnal fashion, Tyler stood protectively embracing Sailor sporting a delicate floral-print Vilshenko dress, a look of which her tiny son thoroughly approved.
Steven Meisel4/6Naomi Campbell and her daughter, 2022
“I can count on one hand the number of people who knew that I was having her,” Campbell told British Vogue deputy editor and fashion features director Sarah Harris back in February 2022, when she was shot with her daughter by Steven Meisel for the magazine’s March 2022 cover. “But she is the biggest blessing I could ever imagine. It’s the best thing I’ve ever done,” Campbell added of the joy of bringing up her now one year old. “I always knew that one day I would be a mother, but it’s the biggest joy I could ever imagine. I’m lucky to have her and I know that.”
Zoe Ghertner5/6Priyanka Chopra Jonas and her daughter Malti Marie, 2023
“Now I feel I have a centre, a sense of calm, because every decision ends up being about her,” revealed Priyanka Chopra Jonas in the February 2023 issue of British Vogue, on the experience of welcoming her now one-year-old daughter Malti via surrogate, with her husband Nick Jonas. Photographer Zoe Ghertner lensed a heart-warming interaction between the cover star and her daughter, both wearing rosy shades of red.
Will Davidson6/6Miranda Kerr and her son Flynn, 2012
“Now I’m excited about going home and seeing my son and getting a big kiss,” Kerr smiled after her July 2012 British Vogue interview in its Ageless Style issue, delighted to end the day in a domestic setting with her toddler son Flynn and her then-husband Orlando Bloom. Flynn also made a star appearance within the magazine’s pages, held by Kerr as the Australian native enjoyed the view of Point Piper in Sydney, wearing a romantic Emilio Pucci ensemble.