Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo Open Up on Raw Parenthood Documentary Series

When Sophie Habboo told reporters she "really didn't want the birth to be filmed," she meant it. What she could not have anticipated was that her anaesthetist would pick up her phone mid-emergency C-section at the Lindo Wing and capture the entire delivery. That unscripted moment, a baby's arm presenting through the cervix in a procedure Habboo described as "really scary" and not the birth she had planned, became the most talked-about scene in Raising Chelsea, the three-part documentary that premiered April 2 on Disney+ in the UK and Ireland and on Hulu in the US.

For Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo, former stars of Made in Chelsea, the E4 reality series that first aired in 2011 following affluent young Londoners across Belgravia, Chelsea, Fulham, and Knightsbridge, the line between public and private has always been porous. They met on the show in 2019, became engaged in 2021, and married in 2023 with a civil ceremony at Chelsea Town Hall before a destination wedding abroad. They have since built a parallel media operation through their podcasts NearlyWeds and NearlyParents, documenting relationship milestones in real time for a large and loyal audience. From their £12 million London home, they have now extended that franchise to streaming.

Also billed as Jamie and Sophie: Raising Chelsea, the series is a Hulu Original produced for the UK market. Filming began before Habboo was even pregnant and wrapped eight weeks after their son, Ziggy, was born in December 2025. The pregnancy was announced in June 2025. The series covers conception, pregnancy scans, home renovations, family opinions, and the chaos of early parenthood in what Habboo called a "raw and vulnerable" register, distinctly different from the lighter, self-deprecating tone of their podcasts. "The Disney show is really raw and vulnerable," she said, while the podcast is largely them "taking the piss out of each other."

The birth footage crystallises the central tension of the no-filter influencer economy: what actually gets left in. Habboo initially insisted the delivery had to remain a private moment. But after the footage existed, she and Laing watched it back and chose to include it. "With the birth scene, we really didn't expect to go in there. I didn't actually want to film that, but it's there and it's real and that is the story and that is what happened. I've just gone for it," she said. Laing was clear that the decision was hers alone.

The documentary format, with its production infrastructure and Disney+ distribution deal, available in the UK from £5.99 per month, carries different weight than a podcast episode. Habboo acknowledged the emotional cost, noting her first pregnancy left her "very anxious" and introduced an "unexpected vulnerability." Laing described having cameras present during such intimate moments as "nerve-wracking."

The couple attended the UK premiere in London ahead of the April 2 streaming debut. Baby Ziggy, just months old and unable to consent to his life being documented from conception through his eighth week, remains the series' most candid subject of all.