The “Without Me” singer reportedly gave birth to her first child, Ender Ridley Aydin, on July 14. Today, she posted heartwarming black-and-white photos of her holding Ender in her arms as her screenwriter boyfriend Alev Aydin looks on, along with a breastfeeding photo.
“Gratitude. For the most ‘rare’ and euphoric birth. Powered by love,” Halsey captioned.
SingerHalsey is expecting her first child after a series of miscarriages and a history of fertility struggles.
Surprise!” the “Without Me” recording artist captioned an Instagram photo on Wednesday, January 26, debuting her baby bump while wearing a crocheted rainbow top to reflect the fact that she is having a “Rainbow” baby, a child conceived after pregnancy loss.
A few years ago, the New Jersey shared openly that she had frozen her eggs following a lifetime of struggilng with endometriosis.
When she shared a tweet version of the photo, she captioned the photo,” my rainbow”.
“Doing ovarian reserve is important for me, because I’m fortunate enough to have that as an option, and I need to be aggressive about protecting my fertility [and] about protecting myself,” Halsey said in April 2018 during an appearance on the TV show The Doctors.“Reproductive illness is so frustrating because it can really make you feel like less of a woman.”
She added: “You don’t feel sexy, you don’t feel proud, and you don’t feel like there’s much hope, so taking these measures to make sure that I get to have a hopefully bright future and achieve the things that I want to achieve by doing the ovarian reserve is really important.”
Before then, she was forced to choose between a loss and work.
Right before a 2015 perfomance, she told Rolling Stone that she lost a baby.
“I’m like, ‘I have to cancel this show!” the “Bad at Love” singer said in the July 2016 interview. “And everyone’s kind of like, ‘Well, it’s Vevo LIFT, and it’s three-million impressions, so … no one knew what do to. It’s the angriest performance that I’ve ever done in my life. That was the moment of my life where I thought to myself, ‘I don’t feel like a f–king human being anymore.’ This thing, this music, Halsey, whatever it is that I’m doing, took precedence and priority over every decision that I made regarding this entire situation from the moment I found out until the moment it went wrong. I walked offstage and went into the parking lot and just start throwing up.”
And she was hardest on herself over the loss.
“I wasn’t drinking. I wasn’t doing drugs. I was f–king overworked — in the hospital every couple of weeks because I was dehydrated, needing bags of IVs brought to my greenroom. I was anemic, I was fainting,” she revealed. “My body just broke the f–k down.”
It is the first child with her boyfriend, Alev Aydin.
“Heart so full, I love you, sweetness,” Aydin posted in the comment section of her post to which Halsey replied, “I love you!!!!! And I love this mini human already!”
It’s been a long time coming.
Halsey told The Guardian in February 2020 that becoming a mom was “looking like something that’s gonna happen for me. That’s a miracle.”
In her Manicalbum notes for Apple Music, Halsey shared that her song “More” is about her struggles with reproductive health.
“I’ve been really open about my struggles with reproductive health, about wanting to freeze my eggs and having endometriosis and things like that,” she wrote. “For a long time, I didn’t think that having a family was something I was going to be able to do, and it’s very, very important to me.”
“Then one day my OB-GYN tells me it’s looking like I maybe can, and I was so moved. It felt like this ascension into a different kind of womanhood,” added Halsey. “All of a sudden, everything is different. I’m not going to go tour myself to death because I have nothing else to do and I’m overcompensating for not being able to have this other thing that I really want. Now, I have a choice. I’ve never had a choice before.”
The songwriter was spotted out and about with Aydin in October 2020. Prior to her with Aydin, she was romantically linked to singer Yungblud and actor Evan Peters and dated G-Eazy on and off from 2017 to 2018.
As is the case in many Halloween seasons past, famous people loved to dress as other celebrities and this year was no different. The TODAYshow and Good Morning America morning shows and Live with Kelly and Ryanhad themes and dressed as multiple people. TODAY’s on air personalities did dance numbers and Good Morning America’s theme was. Kelly and Ryan did pop culture viral moments like Baby Shark and Old Town Road.
Here is a run down (updating as I bump into more)
Singer Normani channeled a 1979 Cher and a 1991 Naomi Campbell shoot and killed both looks!
Ryan Secrest and Kelly Ripa dressed as Katy Perry and Taylor Swift’s food costumes from Swift’s “Calm Down” video.
Kourtney Kardashian dressed as Ariana Grande.
Her sister Kylie Jenner dressed as Marilyn Monroe and the Little Mermaid
TODAY show host Sheinelle Jones dressed as Janet Jackson from her “Rhythm Nation” Video
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills‘ Lisa Rinna dressed as J.Lo in her infamous dress.
Comedian Kevin Hart channeled Duane “The Rock” Johnson’s iconic 1990s photo.
Kylie Jenner dressed her daughter Stormi Webster as her look from this year’s Met Ball.
Singer Halsey dressed as rocker Marilyn Manson.
Nina Dobrev dressed as Billie Eilish as a lot of people did this year.
First-time mom-to-be Model Ashley Graham got into the Halloween spirit early this year dressing as Jessica Rabbit for a costume party her and hubby, director Justin Ervin, attended.
He was dressed as wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage.
Other celeb moms took to Instagram to show off their Halloween costumes including:
Actress Gabrielle Union who donned her costume from her breakout role in the pop cult classic movie Bring It On and dressed her daughter Kaavia James in a miniature version of the same.