Halle Bailey and her boyfriend, rapper DDG, are having fun with being new dad and mom after they welcomed their child boy, Halo, late final 12 months. And whereas talking on the 2024 ESSENCE Black Ladies in Hollywood Awards Ceremony on Thursday (March 7), the 23-year-old emotionally detailed why she hid her being pregnant and didn’t go public along with her child bump.
Forward of Friday’s (March 8) Worldwide Ladies’s Day, Bailey defined that the choice to cover her being pregnant got here from a “place of safety,” and the “state of the world” additionally performed a task.
“There was no approach in hell I used to be going to share the most important pleasure of my world with anybody. Halo was my present. He’s the best blessing, and I had no obligation to show him, me, or my household to that,” Bailey declared. “With the state of the world and the place it’s in with males attempting to drive their will on our our bodies, nobody on social media, and for d–n certain, nobody on the planet was going to inform me what to do with my physique or what to share with the world.”
The Little Mermaid star was on the verge of tears whereas thanking the ladies who got here earlier than her and set what she believed to be the precise instance.
“Do y’all keep in mind when Prince Z David Marley, who got here from a queen named Lauryn Hill, entered the world? Do you keep in mind how personal Beyoncé was about her being pregnant? We’ve got that proper. Each lady on the earth has that proper to decide on what to do with their our bodies and what to share with anybody or everybody,” she continued. “So thanks. Thanks to a few of the sturdy girls in my life, like my lovely sisters standing right here on the stage with me, for setting examples in resilience, confidence, and independence.”
Bailey and DDG revealed the delivery of their son in January with a submit on social media about bringing Halo into the world and turning into new dad and mom.
Whereas tending to mother duties, Bailey can be again within the studio engaged on new music, and he or she’s readying a single titled “In Your Arms” for subsequent Friday (March 15).
“Everytime you’re down and sufferin’, I promise that I’ll be your solely pal/ ‘Trigger I do know that the demons comin’ once more, and we are going to by no means, ever let ’em in,” Bailey croons earlier than bellowing the hook. “In your palms, in your palms, the world is yours!”
“You guys have requested for it, so i’ll gladly give it to you,” she added on X.
Watch the clip of Bailey explaining her choice to cover her being pregnant beneath:
