Oh Mama!

Model and muso Cheyenne Tozzi gives her first and definitely last interview before becoming a mother — her way.

- Tracey Withers

WELL, THIS IS A SITUATION. As I talk to Cheyenne Tozzi tonight, the shoot to get the photograph you’re supposed to be seeing with this interview is in three weeks and our gloriously “super pregnant” subject is due to push in four. Mathematically, we’re going to make it. “But Baby’s pretty low and big, dude,” Tozzi says, laughing, characteristic chill apparently unshakeable. “It might happen on set!” More LOLs (Her. Less me. I’m feeling a little edgy about this, to be honest). In any case, by the time you’re picking up on this conversation in print, pictures or no pictures [editor’s note: we just made it!], Baby will be here.

So, yes, surprise — Australian model/singer/fashion identity Cheyenne Tozzi is having a baby! Don’t feel looped out if you had no idea. A well-reported nomad who sometimes lives in Paris, other times in New York or Barcelona, she’s been throwing us all off the scent with an Instagram grid of new swimsuit covers on international magazines, LA jam sessions with her guitarist, casual hangs with Virgil Abloh. Meanwhile, she’s actually been peacefully nesting at her waterfront home in Cronulla, on Sydney’s southern beaches, for months.

The radio silence hasn’t just been about privacy. “This pregnancy has been scary … uncertain,” Tozzi tells. “I have rhesus negative blood type … The body might treat the pregnancy as a virus and cause some real problems.” A series of injections of anti-D immunoglobulin and close monitoring has things under control. “But I’ve been terrified,” she says. “I didn’t want anything out there until I knew the baby was going to be healthy. I feel for all women who have any complications or uncertainties during pregnancy, no matter how severe.”