When Sofia Richie Grainge got married last April, it was the wedding heard round the world. There was the debut of her TikTok just days before she walked down the aisle, her final dress fitting at Chanel, and, of course, the main event: her wedding at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc. (Was it or was it not quiet luxury?) There, she and record executive Elliot Grainge said their vows in front of friends and family that included her father Lionel Richie, sister Nicole Richie and her husband Joel Madden, as well as Benji Madden, Cameron Diaz, and Paris Hilton.
However, in the nine months since, the bride who undoubtedly launched more than a few private Pinterest boards has been busy. There’s been the David Yurman campaign, the Prada Beauty partnership, and more than a few magazine covers. But perhaps the biggest collaboration to date is the one she’s been keeping under wraps for months: Sofia Richie Grainge is expecting, and she’s over the moon about it.
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“I found out very, very early,” Richie Grainge tells Vogue exclusively. “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.”