BABY BLUESPete Davidson’s Girlfriend Explains Controversial Parenting ChoiceThe 29-year-old model detailed her painful pregnancy and difficult postpartum decisions.
Updated Feb 25, 2026, 11:09 PM EST
Published Feb 25, 2026, 6:03 PM EST
Model Elsie Hewitt, the girlfriend of Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson, detailed the logic behind her decision not to breastfeed the couple’s baby—a personal choice often met with judgment, scrutiny, and even contempt.
Davidson, 32, and Hewitt, 29, welcomed their daughter, Scottie Rose Hewitt Davidson, on December 12, 2025.
In an essay for Elle magazine called “My Decision Not to Breastfeed,” Hewitt revealed that the pregnancy was both unintentional and extremely difficult.
Elsie Hewitt and Pete Davidson in New York City, April, 2025.
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The English model had been dating Davidson for under a year when their baby was born, and had only made their relationship public in March 2025. Around that time, Hewitt received a life-changing diagnosis.
“I lived through years of chronic pain, dismissal, and misunderstanding that was finally diagnosed as stage 4 endometriosis,” Hewitt wrote.
Endometriosis is a chronic condition in which tissue similar to a person’s uterine lining grows outside of their uterus, often causing debilitating pain, heavy and irregular menstrual periods, and, in some cases, ovarian cysts.
The pregnancy came shortly after she underwent laparoscopic excision surgery.
“I had been looking forward to a stretch of my life where my body felt like mine again—where I wasn’t constantly managing pain or advocating to be believed,“ she wrote. “Pregnancy, in all honesty, completely derailed that. And I really struggled.”
Elsie Hewitt has modeled for brands like Guess and acted in shows like HBO's "Industry".
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“For the most part, I hated being pregnant,” Hewitt wrote, further detailing her difficult pregnancy: “I was deeply uncomfortable. I was constantly sick, exhausted, and in pain.”
Breastfeeding, she wrote, was presented to her as “the gold standard,” while formula feeding was viewed as a “safe alternative that sits beneath breastfeeding.”
“I was aware, even before pregnancy, of the quiet shame attached to formula feeding,” she recalled. “There is inherent guilt in choosing not to breastfeed... That guilt doesn’t disappear simply because formula is safe, healthy, and nutritionally complete.”
