Pete Davidson's Girlfriend Elsie Hewitt Details Difficult Motherhood Decision: ‘That Guilt Doesn't Disappear’

Pete Davidson’s girlfriend Elsie Hewitt is keeping it real about an increasingly taboo part of motherhood: the decision not to breastfeed.

The 29-year-old, who welcomed daughter Scottie with Davidson in Dec. 2025, wrote in a Feb. 25 essay for Elle about her thought process leading up to the choice to formula feed only and the “guilt that doesn’t disappear” even though she knows it’s a completely valid choice.

After feeling like her body “doesn’t belong to me,” the model struggled with committing to also being the sole person to feed her baby after she was born. Breastfeeding is considered “the gold standard,” according to Hewitt, but it also comes at a cost. “It also concentrates most of the physical and logistical labor of feeding onto one body—the same one that just grew a child, birthed it, and is already moving through the seismic shift that is postpartum recovery,” she said.

Formula, on the other hand, has a “quiet shame” attached to it, with many people only considering it a “safe alternative that sits beneath breastfeeding.” She vulnerably admitted, “It took some grappling with that shame, and some exploring of the moral hierarchy around breastfeeding, to affirm that what was best for me and what was best for my baby did not exist on different levels or rankings—they were one and the same.”

Hewitt goes on to reveal that her pregnancy was unplanned and came after a laparoscopic excision surgery for her stage 4 endometriosis. While pregnant, she felt “constantly sick, exhausted, and in pain.”

“When it came time to decide how I would feed my baby, I weighed my mental health, my recovery, and the kind of mother I want to be,” Hewitt wrote. “There is inherent guilt in choosing not to breastfeed. My body is biologically programmed to nourish my baby, and opting out of that can feel like going against something ancient, instinctual, and profoundly beautiful. That guilt doesn’t disappear simply because formula is safe, healthy, and nutritionally complete.”

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“I still have to remind myself—and sometimes literally ask to be told—that being mentally and emotionally okay is not separate from being a good mother,” she added.

Hewitt and Davidson announced the birth of their “perfect angel girl” on Dec. 12. She shared pictures of the little one, adding that she is “absolutely overflowing with love and gratitude and disbelief.”

Last month, the Saturday Night Live alum revealed that he and Hewitt are already planning on another baby. “We want her to have a friend, for sure,” Davidson told Us Weekly. “We love the idea of her being a big sister.”

Hewitt admitted they are “absolutely insane” for feeling this way. “I didn’t think I would already think about having another one,” Hewitt told the outlet. “The idea of that sounds absolutely insane right now. … The process of giving birth is so insane, but so empowering once it happens. Just having this little thing, I really can’t explain how incredible the whole thing is.”

“The idea of making another one and making a sibling is something I’ve already been like, ‘I want to do it again,’” she added. “They’re so tiny when they come out, and they grow so fast. It’s crazy.”

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