When Sofia Richie Grainge got married in April of 2023 and announced her pregnancy this past January, the world took note. The obsession began with her final wedding dress fitting at Chanel and only grew from there. Her memorable walk down the aisle on the arm of her father Lionel Richie at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in the south of France coincided with the launch of her TikTok account just days prior, and in the months following the wedding, it felt like the model and influencer was the moment—there was a David Yurman campaign, a Prada Beauty partnership, and more than a few magazine covers—and now, Sofia Richie Grainge is officially a new mom.
With her husband, record executive Elliot Grainge, by her side, Sofia gave birth to their first child on May 20—a daughter, Eloise Samantha Grainge.
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“I found out very, very early,” Richie Grainge told Vogue exclusively in January of her journey to motherhood. “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.”
When she got back to Los Angeles, she was initially planning on going to the Ed Sheeran concert with her husband and friends the next day. “I kind of knew it was going to be a boozy night, and I was a few days late on my period, and I wanted to be generally safe, so I took a test,” she remembers. “Elliot was already used to me taking tests randomly.” The two had been casually trying ever since they got married in April. “So he didn’t really flinch when I said I was checking. I was taking one of those really crappy at-home tests, and there was the faintest of lines. I was so used to seeing negatives that I knew when something looked even kind of different.”
She promptly told Elliot to get in his car and go to CVS to pick up three more of the best pregnancy tests he could find. “He was so excited,” Richie Grainge recalls. “We spoke the whole way on the phone. And when he came home, he’s such a sweet guy he always wants to protect my emotions and expectations, so he kind of sat me down and said, ‘If these are negative, don’t be upset. Our moment will come.’ When we turned over all three tests at the same time they were all positive. He was so excited, and we both cried. It was crazy and overwhelming and so hard not to scream it from the rooftops. But knowing I was so early, I was so protective—even with my friends.”