Nicole Williams English Says She’s Ready to Put Daughter India, 10 Months, Into Modeling (Exclusive)

“I have a feeling she’s going to see my journey and want to kind of do something similar,” the ‘Sports Illustrated Swimsuit’ model and ‘WAGS LA’ star told PEOPLE this week

She got it from her mama!

Nicole Williams English’s daughter India Moon isn’t even a year old, but modeling might just be in her future. After all, it’s a family trait.

“Everybody’s like. Have you got her signed yet? She’s so cute. I am going to put her in modeling,” the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model, 40, tells PEOPLE exclusively at the Club SI party in Las Vegas for the F1 race on Friday.

“She has such an amazing personality. She’s so funny. So hopefully she can be a little actress or something, but I’m going to let her choose her path,” Williams English says.

Still, the writing might already be on the wall for India, who was born in January 2023 and who the model shares with NFL player husband Larry English, 36,

“I have a feeling she’s going to see my journey and want to kind of do something similar,” the the WAGS LA star admits.

After India’s birth on January 13, the model told PEOPLE that she was “over the moon” at the arrival of her baby girl.

“Our sweet baby girl is here and we are over the moon in love!!!” she said in a statement. “We went in for our routine fetal monitoring appointment, and it turned out that I was developing preeclampsia. My doctor said, ‘we are having this baby like, TODAY.’ ”

Ahead of that, Williams English was the only pregnant model to appear in the iconic Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue earlier this year.

And in May, she told PEOPLE that shooting the iconic issue was “surreal.”

“Shooting on the beaches of Dominica while 8 months pregnant felt surreal,” Williams English exclusively told PEOPLE at the time.

“I’ve wanted to be a Sports Illustrated Rookie my entire career, so when I received the call that I was the first Rookie of 2023 and they also wanted to shoot me pregnant was the ultimate dream come true,” she added at the time. “I cried a lot!”

Williams English was actually eight months along at the time of her photo shoot in Dominica. Though she says she thinks previous models may have been pregnant, but not as pregnant.

“I think I was the first very pregnant model,” she laughs while chatting to PEOPLE in Las Vegas on Friday.

Williams English’s daughter might have been the youngest person to technically ever appear in the swimsuit issue while her mom was pregnant, but she was also shot for the magazine at the tender age of six weeks old.

“I have been manifesting this for over 20 years. My whole career has stemmed off of me wanting to be a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit rookie, so I waited a really long time and I never ever thought in my wildest dreams it would be when I’m pregnant, 39 and married,” the model and reality star says, before reflecting on her path to where she is now.

“I’m 40 now, which is wild. I worked really, really hard to be here and I’m just so proud of the journey,” she reveals, adding, “I wouldn’t have had it any other way because being pregnant and being able to show my daughter this is what dreams are made of.”

“She was in mommy’s belly when all her dreams came true.”

source: people.com