Gigi Hadid's daughter Khai looks so precious with short hair as she holds hands with dad Zayn Malik

Zayn Malik shared a rare photo of his five-year-old daughter Khai, whom he shares with his ex-girlfriend, Gigi Hadid.

Taking to his Instagram account on Thursday, the former One Direction star, 33, could be seen holding his little girl's hand as they walked towards an IMAX cinema. 

Khai, who was facing away from the camera in the candid snap, looked incredibly sweet, her long brunette hair falling just past her shoulders. Meanwhile, she rocked cool patterned trousers and a pair of Jordans.

Meanwhile, Zayn wore an oversized Balenciaga T-shirt and a backwards cap.

"Omg she’s so big now, time really does fly," one fan said of Khai. A second added a similar message noting how big Khai is now alongside an emoji on the brink of tears.

The singer welcomed his little girl in 2020 with his former model flame, before they parted ways the following year.

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Zayn's photo with Khai comes amid rumours that Gigi has 'secretly' married her Hollywood actor beau Bradley Cooper. 

The couple, who were first romantically linked in 2023, stepped out in Paris together earlier this month while sporting gold bands on their ring fingers. 

Inside Zayn and Gigi's co-parenting journey

The former couple dated for five years before their sudden split in 2021, following an altercation between Zayn and Gigi's mother, Yolanda. The father of one was charged with four counts of harassment after the incident, and Gigi and Zayn went their separate ways. 

The supermodel opened up about her relationship with the British singer in an interview with Vogue, sharing that they had mastered the art of co-parenting their young child.

"Zayn and I do our custody schedules months in advance," Gigi revealed. "That doesn't mean that it doesn't change here and there, but we help each other out and have each other's backs." 

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She added that the pair had reached a new stage of friendship full of "love and a feeling of camaraderie." 

The 31-year-old called out the intense media scrutiny of their relationship following the incident in 2021. "There is the hard part of the world knowing this much, and thinking they know everything," she said. 

"And at the end of the day, we're not interested in giving everyone our whole story. What we are interested in is raising our daughter together, with so much respect for each other, and not just as co-­parents, but what we've been through together."

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While Zayn has largely kept quiet on the assault, he did break his silence in 2023 on the Call Her Daddy podcast with a simple response. 

"I don't get involved when people talk online. My most valuable thing for me is time and I don't want to be justifying myself," he said on the show. 

"I knew what the situation was and I knew what happened and the people involved know what happened and that's all that matters."

"I didn't want to bring attention, and I didn't want to get a negative back and forth with [Gigi or] any sort of narrative for my daughter to eventually read," he added. "They're family issues I'd rather keep in the family. I'm very hands-on with my child; if I could have 60 per cent, I would take it."