Halsey reveals she's pregnant with her first child by posing topless with her baby bump
- Halsey revealed on Instagram Wednesday that she's pregnant with her first child.
- The 26-year-old singer posted three photos showing off her baby bump, captioned, "surprise!"
- Halsey, who has endometriosis, has opened up about motherhood and suffering miscarriages in the past.
Halsey revealed on Wednesday that she's pregnant with her first child.
The 26-year-old singer-songwriter, real name Ashley Frangipane, posted three photos on Instagram showing off her baby bump, photographed by Sam Dameshek.
"Surprise!" she captioned the post, adding three emojis: a baby bottle, a rainbow, and a baby face.
Halsey also tagged Alev Aydin as her stomach in the first photo, leading fans to believe he's the father.
Aydin, a writer and producer, was photographed with Halsey in October when the pair took a masked trip to Blick in Los Angeles. As of yet, neither has confirmed whether they're a couple.
Shortly after her pregnancy announcement, Halsey also tweeted, "my rainbow."
The term "rainbow baby" refers to "a baby born after a miscarriage, stillborn, or neonatal death," Jennifer Kulp-Makarov, M.D. told Parents.com.
"It is called a rainbow baby because it is like a rainbow after a storm: something beautiful after something scary and dark," Makarov said. "It is an extremely emotional and devastating experience to lose a pregnancy. To create a life or bring a baby into the world after such a loss is amazing like a miracle for these parents."
Indeed, Halsey has previously opened up about the "demoralizing" experience of having a miscarriage.
"It's the most inadequate I've ever felt," she told The Guardian almost one year ago, calling the possibility of motherhood a "miracle."
Halsey first opened up about miscarrying in a 2016 interview with Rolling Stone. She also revealed in a since-deleted tweet that she's had three miscarriages in her life.
The "3am" singer has endometriosis, an incurable reproductive disorder that can make it difficult - or, in severe cases, impossible - to get pregnant. She has called the disease "excruciatingly painful" and "discouraging."
In her song "More," the 14th track on her 2020 album "Manic," Halsey sings about her desire to have a child.
"Wooden floors and little feet / A flower bud in concrete / Feelin' so incomplete / Wonder will we ever meet?" she sings. "And when you decide it's your time to arrive / I've loved you for all of my life."
"I've been really open about struggling with reproductive health," she told Apple Music's Zane Lowe last year. "For a long time, I didn't think that that was something - that having a family was something that I was going to be able to do in an effortless manner. [Having a family is] very important to me."
Halsey said, while she was working on "Manic," her OB-GYN informed her that her treatments and steps towards a healthier lifestyle have made it possible for her to have a healthy pregnancy.
"It was a moment where I felt like I had leveled up in life. It was this like, ascension into a different kind of womanhood," she said. "I wrote the lyrics to 'More' in like, four minutes or less. It just spilled out of me."
"It kind of facades as just like, a normal love song. And it is a love song, but not to a romantic person," she explained. "It's one of the most special songs I've ever made, and by far one of the most mature."
She also said she'd likely never perform "More" live - unless she has a child of her own to dedicate it to.
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