1 week ago
8
Halle Bailey Tears Up Explaining Why She Kept Her Pregnancy A Secret
Halle Bailey's postpartum struggles have come successful waves.
The Little Mermaid histrion opened up astir the intelligence health challenges she's faced arsenic a caller ma since welcoming her baby boy Halo with boyfriend DDG.
"I person severe, terrible postpartum [depression]," she said successful a Snapchat video that was reshared by a instrumentality relationship connected Instagram April 16, "and I don't cognize if immoderate caller moms tin relate, but it's to the constituent wherever it's truly bad, and it's hard for maine to beryllium separated from my babe for much than 30 minutes astatine a clip earlier I commencement to benignant of freak out."
Halle noted that her relationship to her assemblage has changed, which is wherever she said her postpartum slump stems from.
"The lone happening that's been hard for maine is feeling mean successful my ain body," she explained. "I consciousness similar a wholly antithetic idiosyncratic erstwhile I look successful the mirror. I conscionable consciousness similar I'm successful a full caller body, and I don't cognize who I am."
The 24-year-old admitted she wasn't afloat alert of the mental health issues caller moms tin experience.
"I didn't recognize however superior of a happening it really was," she said astir postpartum depression. "Now, going done it, it feels similar you're swimming successful this water that's, like, the biggest waves you've ever felt, and you're trying not to drown."
Halle Bailey/Instagram
Despite her experience, Halle made it wide that her emotion for Halo is unwavering: "It has thing to bash with my baby. It has everything to bash with maine and who I americium close now."
As for wherefore The Color Purple prima decided to stock penetration into her postpartum journey? She was triggered by societal media comments astir her family.
"It's honestly truly brainsick to maine that radical would consciousness the request to accidental specified hurtful things," Halle revealed. "Normally, I'm OK. I'll spot it—and it volition wounded my feelings—but I won't accidental anything. I conscionable suck it up, swallow my pridefulness and privation that idiosyncratic well. But today, I couldn't due to the fact that it grows thing successful maine to bring consciousness to."
That's wherefore she reminded her fans to lead with kindness.
"You ne'er cognize what idiosyncratic other is going through," she added, "especially idiosyncratic who conscionable had a baby."
Halle isn't the lone prima to get candid astir motherhood. Keep speechmaking to spot what different celebs person said astir their postpartum bodies, breastfeeding travel and more.
Keke Palmer/Instagram
Keke Palmer
"I deliberation my breastfeeding travel was besides precise empowering due to the fact that it was truthful difficult," Keke told Essence in an interrogation published Aug. 21. "And I wanted to springiness up astatine truthful galore antithetic points, but I conscionable kept pushing myself and kept trying to fig it out."
She added, "The narration I had with my lad during that process empowered maine to get backmost up and bash things for myself again."
Tia Mowry / Instagram
Tia Mowry
The Game alum, who shares son Cree, 12, and daughter Cairo, 5, with ex-husband Cory Hardrict, opened up astir her struggles with breastfeeding. "When I had Cree, I was struggling to breastfeed him," she wrote successful an Aug. 10 Instagram. I was lone capable to breastfeed for 3 months earlier having to power to formula. And during the 2nd time, I recovered that I was capable to breastfeed Cairo for 13 months."
She continued, "Nonetheless, the travel was difficult...if you are struggling with breastfeeding, I privation you to cognize that it is much than good to provender your children formula. As agelong arsenic your children are fed, loved, happy, and supported that's each that matters."
Instagram/Rumer Willis
Rumer Willis
The House Bunny histrion snapped a photograph of herself nursing daughter Louetta, who she shares with musician Derek Richard Thomas, during a household formation time successful August 2023.
Rosie Hungtington-Whiteley
In a carousel of Instagram pictures, the erstwhile Victoria's Secret exemplary shared a photograph of herself breastfeeding her and Jason Statham's babe girl, Isabella.
Ashley Graham
In May 2022, Ashley Graham shared a photograph of herself feeding her duplicate boys, Malachi Ervin and Roman Ervin, astatine the aforesaid time. She captioned the post, "double fisting (peep the whacky tan lines)."
Instagram / Elsa Hosk
Elsa Hosk
In March 2021, the Victoria's Secret exemplary shared a pic of herself connected Instagram breastfeeding her babe girl, Tuulikki Joan Daly. A mates of hours later, she shared the aforesaid photograph connected her Instagram Story, writing, "Find it absorbing the magnitude of dms I get from men who get offended erstwhile you station a photograph breastfeeding... Like, wherefore is the astir earthy happening truthful offending to you? Breasts virtually excists [sic] truthful we tin provender our children [red bosom emoji]."
Nikki Reed
The Twilight prima opened up astir breastfeeding her 20-month-old girl Bodhi Soleil Reed Somerhalder successful an Instagram station successful 2019. "To beryllium honest, I person nary thought however agelong her and I volition beryllium connected this travel together. I travel her lead, and she tells maine precisely what she needs," she wrote.
Kehlani
"little bear," Kehlani tweeted successful 2019, on with photos of her and babe Adeya.
Hilary Duff
"On a lighter note.... @acrebaja was bomb," the histrion shared connected Instagram portion kicking disconnected 2019, aft welcoming her 2nd child, girl Banks.
April Love Geary
"Feeding clip for the small munchkin," Robin Thicke's girlfriend wrote by a video of her feeding their girl Mia.
Molly Sims
The histrion breastfed son Grey, writing on Instagram in 2017, "BREASTFEEDING=JUDGEMENT FREE ZONE!"
Audrina Patridge
The Hills alum and ma of 1 told her Instagram followers successful 2016 that her sister, Casey Loza, is "always capturing maine successful moments. #momonthego."
Stacy Keibler
The histrion is each smiles as she snaps a selfie of her feeding her small one.
Karolina Kurkova
The exemplary ma of 2 encourages different moms to stock #breastfeedingselfie pics.
Kandi Burruss
The Bravo prima astutely pointed retired successful 2016 that "this #breastfeeding worldly is nary joke."
Alyssa Milano
The histrion shared this photograph successful grant of girl Elizabella's archetypal day successful 2015. "Happy Birthday, my beauteous Elizabella. You've taught maine that my bosom has nary end. You were the missing portion to my soul. Thank you for choosing me," she wrote.
