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Halseyis opening up about their experience being pregnant while in the spotlight.
“I’m 26, and I tried very hard for this pregnancy and it was like, I’m financially independent, I’m pretty far along in my career, it feels like the right time for me to do it,” they told Lowe.
Despite Halsey’s pregnancy being planned, the artist said others questioned their decision to expand their family amid a bustling career.
“I got treated like a teen mom a lot of the times, you know what I mean? Where people were like, ‘Oh my God, you’re so young, and you have so much to do in your career, and you’re not married and you’re this,'” Halsey said, noting that the criticism triggered “feelings of shame.”
“So f— ‘em and I just was like, I’m going to do what I want to do. You know what I mean? I was like, this is important to me,” they added.
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Halsey explained that there’s also a constant “weight” placed on female artists where they’re taught that time is the “enemy.” The singer said they quickly noticed a difference in treatment, telling Lowe that they missed out on multiple opportunities to promote the album with magazines due to their pregnancy.
“We were going out and trying to set up magazine covers based around the album release, and they were like, ‘Yeah, but is she going to be pregnant? Because we don’t want to do a maternity cover.’ And I was like, it’s not a maternity cover. It’s about my album, I just happen to be pregnant. And they’re like, ‘No, it’s a pregnant cover.’ And I was like, so I can’t go talk about my album?” they explained during the interview.
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“I can’t think of anything that could possibly make this moment in my life better.”
Days before giving birth last month, the “Eastside” singer sharedphotos of the cover for their albumand theatrical film,If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power— which they described as “a concept album about the joys and horrors of pregnancy and childbirth.”
“This image is my means of reclaiming my autonomy and establishing my pride and strength as a life force for my human being,” they wrote on Instagram at the time.
Halsey continued, “This cover image celebrates pregnant and postpartum bodies as something beautiful, to be admired. We have a long way to go with eradicating the social stigma around bodies & breastfeeding. I hope this can be a step in the right direction!”
source: people.com
