Halsey’s bundle of joy has arrived earthside!
Halsey — whorevealed that they were expecting their first childin late January — has long been open about their journey to pregnancy, including back in 2016, when they revealed toRolling Stonethat they’d become pregnant the year prior, just before their career launched, but soon suffered a miscarriage directly ahead of a show. The star still went ahead with the performance.
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“It’s the angriest performance that I’ve ever done in my life,” Halsey recalled at the time. “That was the moment of my life where I thought to myself, ‘I don’t feel like a f—ing human being anymore.’ This thing, this music, Halsey, whatever it is that I’m doing, took precedence and priority over every decision that I made regarding this entire situation from the moment I found out until the moment it went wrong. I walked offstage and went into the parking lot and just started throwing up.”
At the time, they added that they “beat myself up” over the miscarriage, explaining that they wanted “to be a mom more than I want to be a pop star, more than Iwant to be anything in the world.”
The artist has also shared with fans their battle withendometriosis, includingmultiple “terrifying” surgeries they underwent.
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In anotherRolling Stoneprofile in 2019, Halsey shared that they were considering freezing their eggs that summer, worrying endometriosis could plague their chances of conceiving. Surgeries, however, proved to be a positive step in the right direction.
Weeks after telling fans about the happy pregnancy news, they clarified that “mypregnancy was 100% planned, and I tried very hard for this bb.” They added, however, “But I would be just as happy even if it were another way.”
The announcement came after the performer explained in February thatbecoming pregnant had “leveled my perceptionof gender entirely.”
“I’ve been thinking lots about my body. it’s strange to watch yourself change so quickly. I thought pregnancy would give me very strong, binary feelings about ‘womanhood’ but truly it has leveled my perception of gender entirely,” they wrote at the time.
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Within thealbum notes for their second studio albumManic, Halsey explained how the emotional song “More” relates to their fertility struggles.
“I’ve been really open about my struggles with reproductive health, about wanting to freeze my eggs and having endometriosis and things like that,” they wrote. “For a long time, I didn’t think that having a family was something I was going to be able to do, and it’s very, very important to me.”
“Then one day my OB-GYN tells me it’s looking like I maybe can, and I was so moved. It felt like this ascension into a different kind of womanhood,” added Halsey. “All of a sudden, everything is different. I’m not going to go tour myself to death because I have nothing else to do and I’m overcompensating for not being able to have this other thing that I really want. Now, I have a choice. I’ve never had a choice before.”
Halsey then toldThe Guardianin February 2020 that becoming a mom was “looking like something that’s gonna happen for me,” calling that nothing short of “a miracle.”
source: people.com
