Halle Bailey determined she had “no obligation” to share her being pregnant with the world.
The Little Mermaid star revealed in December that she had welcomed son Halo with rapper DDG — whose actual identify is Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr. — however had stored the information that she was anticipating to herself. Bailey has now admitted that there was “no method in hell” that she was ever going to share her “largest pleasure” on such a big scale.
“We’re black ladies in leisure … though we signed up for the challenges of the highlight, on this present local weather, that highlight burns brighter, hotter and uninterrupted … the scrutiny of its magnification leaves no concealment. I’ve discovered from that highlight over the previous eight years,” she mentioned on the Essence Black Ladies in Hollywood Awards on March 7.
“I’ve additionally, if I’m being sincere, been burned by it, too, as all of us have. There was no method in hell I used to be going to share the largest pleasure of my world with anybody. [H]alo was my present. He’s the best blessing, and I had no obligation to show him, me, or my household to that,” Bailey added.
The actor and singer then blamed the “state of the world” and hinted that the magnitude of social media was all behind her reasoning to maintain issues personal.
“With the state of the world and the place it’s in, with males making an attempt to drive their will on our our bodies, nobody on social media — and for rattling positive, nobody on the planet — was going to inform me what to do with my physique or what to share with the world,” she mentioned.
Bailey managed to maintain all the pieces about her new child secret, solely selecting to disclose the information to her thousands and thousands of followers just a few days into the brand new yr.
“Regardless that we’re just a few days into the brand new yr, the best factor that 2023 might have completed for me, was carry me my son … welcome to the world my Halo [love, baby and star emojis]. The world is determined to know you [wink, laughing face and heart emojis],” she mentioned in her Instagram submit.
