Elsie Hewitt and Pete Davidson announced that they were expecting their first child in mid-July, about five months after they first started dating. Assuming that Elsie was past the 12 week mark when they announced it, that would put her in her third trimester right now. (When Elsie, Pete, and Elsie’s bump made their red carpet debut in late July, she looked like she was around four months pregnant.) As they get down the home stretch, Elsie and Pete are doing an ad campaign with the dating app Bumble. (They didn’t meet on Bumble.) As a part of the campaign, they did a series of Instagram posts and stories where they shared a lot about their love story and how it began. *Spoiler* Their first date went pretty much exactly as you’d expect it to.
Elsie Hewitt always knew Pete Davidson was the one.
The British actress, 29, and her comedian boyfriend, 32, spoke with Bumble for a new campaign, where Hewitt, who is currently pregnant with the couple’s first baby, shared she knew she’d have kids with Davidson from their first date.
“When we went on our first date, like we went out to dinner for the first time, I was like, ‘Okay, don’t think that I’m crazy, but I just know you’re going to be the father of my children,” Hewitt shared. “And he was like, ‘Yeah.'”
After announcing in July that she and Davidson, 31, are expecting their first child together, Hewitt spoke with PEOPLE in early October and shared that the two are settling into their new roles as soon-to-be parents.
“For both of us, we’re very conscious of not putting pressure on this. Like, ‘This child is going to fill a void or be this thing that I never had,’ type thing. But I do think that there is this really healing aspect of knowing that we’re going to be able to give a child the life and the support and the love and the family vibe that we don’t feel like we had,” Hewitt said.
“I think we’re going to be cool parents. I hope! I sometimes just see or feel the way that we are with one another, and I’m really glad and I’m really proud that this is how it is and this is how it’s going to be,” she added. “I could not ask for a better father for my child. I’m so happy it’s him.”
Telling someone that you’re going to have their baby while you’re on a first date is intense, but sometimes when you know, you know. It’s certainly risky to put those cards on the table from the very start, but let’s face it: Pete is the exact same way with that same intensity. Plus, he answered affirmatively when she said it! (He confirmed in an expired Instagram Story that he responded, “I know” when she said it.) It feels like he just met his match with Elsie. I do hope that he’s continuing to work on his sobriety and mental health journeys, though, because having a baby is a huge, game-changing life event.
As for their Bumble ads, the campaign is called “Love in Their Words,” and it features pictures of Pete and Elsie along with note cards containing handwritten responses to different relationship-inspired prompts, like “You’ve taught me that love is…” The pictures that have been posted so far are really adorable and their answers are very sweet. In one of the answers, Pete reveals what his pick-up line would be if they matched on Bumble nowadays: “What you doin’ the next 40 years?” Awww. I don’t know what the next 40 years hold for them, but I know how they’ll be spending the first 18.
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Maybe they knew immediately, maybe she was ovulating 😂. The last line here is perfect. I hope things do really work out for them, I have a soft spot for Pete, I hope he builds stability within himself.
Sometimes you just know, right?
I mean, I met my partner in August, we were living together by October. Ok no kids, but that was our choice. It’s been 12 years now. Hopefully it works out for them too!
“For both of us, we’re very conscious of not putting pressure on this. Like, ‘This child is going to fill a void or be this thing that I never had,’ type thing. But I do think that there is this really healing aspect of knowing that we’re going to be able to give a child the life and the support and the love and the family vibe that we don’t feel like we had,”
She totally contradicts herself and honestly that doesn’t sound super healthy. I wish Pete well but I can’t help having a bad feeling about this
I disagree. My husband had a difficult relationship with his parents (mostly his mother) because of his upbringing, and making conscious choices to raise our children with love, security, togetherness and fun has been very healing for him. I was fortunate to have pretty great parents and we’ve based our parenting on that model with some updates and changes, and it’s meant a lot to him to give our kids the kind of childhood/adolescent support he wishes he’d had. I think you can definitely make intentional choices to parent your children the way you wish you’d been parented as a way to heal and as a way to give your kids your best.
I have always had a soft spot in my heart for Pete. Like so many comedians, there is deep pain beneath the laughter. I hope to everything holy that he is happy and this holiday season with a beautiful baby is the best he’s ever had. Blessings to this couple. While nobody knows the future, let the present be joyous. And let the joy of right now carry forward to each day.
I wish them the best! As a mother of a 31YO daughter recently diagnosed with hypermobile EDS, I’ve been reading more about this genetic disease. Elsie has been posting about her EDS so I’m following her/them. I look back at my daughter’s 2 pregnancies and there were signs but we didn’t know what it was.