Suki Waterhouse Says Becoming a Mom Created ‘A New Relationship’ With Robert Pattinson — and Fueled Her Album ‘Loveland’

Suki Waterhouse met Variety for a conversation in the Notting Hill pub across the street from the flat where she spent most of her 20s. She was already there when the reporter arrived, ordering a Coke and fries, curled up in an armchair in a Vivienne Westwood duster jacket. The setting was deliberate — she’s been feeling nostalgic, she said, and that feeling is at the center of her new album Loveland.

The album is also, in large part, about Robert Pattinson. Waterhouse — the model, actress, and singer who starred in Daisy Jones and The Six — told Variety she used her fiancé as a muse for the record, drawing on the way their relationship was reshaped after they had their daughter together in March 2024. The couple, who got engaged in December 2023, have kept their daughter almost entirely out of the public eye. “I think it really is possible” to protect a child’s privacy, she said, and they intend to do it.

What she was willing to share was the emotional texture of those first months of parenthood, which she described as genuinely destabilizing — even as something beautiful came out the other side. “Internally, there’s been quite a lot of turmoil and just wondering if I’m doing the right thing,” she told Variety. “And especially, oh my God, the hormones right after you have a baby are so intense.”

“A New Relationship”

The effect on her relationship with Pattinson was, by her description, a kind of reset. “It’s like [I got] belief back in myself,” she said, “and then also being… I don’t want to say back in love with my partner, because it sounds like I was out of it, which I was never. But it’s also a new relationship. Your old relationship has been wiped out, and so it’s building that new one and kind of celebrating the beauty in that, like, we’ve survived this.”

That dynamic — surviving something together, finding a new version of a relationship on the other side — is the emotional core she’s channeling into Loveland. The album also draws on nostalgia, which the Notting Hill setting made palpable: she is writing about the person she was in her 20s, in that flat across the street, and about who she’s become since.

The week before the Variety interview, she had been at the Met Gala, turning up in a plunging pink Michael Kors gown designed to evoke Greek statues carved from rose marble. The Loveland era is in full swing.