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Halle Bailey is powering by a “severe” interval of postpartum miserable following the beginning of her child boy, Halo. The 24-year-old Little Mermaid star received candid in a current Snapchat video about her expertise, noting that this has “nothing to do” along with her son, whom she shares with boyfriend DDG.
“I have severe, severe postpartum [depression],” Halle stated within the clip final week, in response to an Instagram fan account that reshared her publish. “And I don’t know if any new moms can relate, but it’s to the point where it’s really bad, and it’s hard for me to be separated from my baby for more than 30 minutes at a time before I start to kind of freak out.”
The Color Purple actress then identified that “feeling normal in [her] own body” has “been hard” for her.
“I feel like a completely different person when I look in the mirror,” Halle defined. “I just feel like I’m in a whole new body, and I don’t know who I am. … I didn’t realize how serious of a thing it actually was. Now, going through it, it feels like you’re swimming in this ocean that’s, like, the biggest waves you’ve ever felt, and you’re trying not to drown.”
Despite the tough bodily and psychological expertise, Halle insisted this “has nothing to do with my baby. It has everything to do with me and who I am right now.”
Later within the clip, the “Angel” artist identified that she needed to share her story after seeing “hurtful” feedback about her on-line.
“It’s honestly really crazy to me that people would feel the need to say such hurtful things,” Halle stated. “Normally, I’m OK. I’ll see it — and it will hurt my feelings — but I won’t say anything. I just suck it up, swallow my pride and wish that person well. But today, I couldn’t because it grows something in me to bring awareness to. … You never know what somebody else is going through especially someone who just had a baby.”
In January, Halle introduced through Instagram that she had welcomed her first little one with DDG. Her social media publish confirmed what social media trolls had been speculating for months — that she was pregnant. However, the Chloe x Halle artist selected to disclose the information on her personal phrases.
Two months later, Halle delivered a robust speech at Essence‘s Black Women in Hollywood Awards in March. She took the moment to explain why she didn’t wish to “expose” her child boy to the general public eye.
“There was no way in hell I was going to share the biggest joy of my world with anyone,” she stated. “Halo was my gift, is the greatest blessing, and I had no obligation to expose him, me or my family to that unyielding spotlight.”