Halle Bailey is reflecting on how her physique has modified postpartum.
“Earlier than vs. after,” Bailey, 23, wrote by way of X on Saturday, February 17, alongside an arrow coronary heart emoji and two side-by-side photographs.
Within the first picture, Bailey posed for a maternity mirror selfie as she wore pink leggings with an identical cardigan. The sweater was fixed above her stomach, exposing her child bump. She wore the identical outfit within the second pic however utterly closed the hoodie over her abdomen. Bailey held son Halo over her shoulder within the picture.
Bailey beforehand flaunted her postpartum physique at Billboard’s New Nominees dinner on January 30, the place she shocked in a red-hot minidress and matching coat. Weeks later, she rocked a sheer Gucci gown on the 2024 Grammys crimson carpet.
Movie star mothers have gotten an increasing number of open about their pregnancies — and have began sharing their postpartum our bodies on social media. “So wonderful what we [mothers] can do,” Bachelor Nation’s Bekah Martinez captioned an Instagram Story mirror selfie in February 2019 after welcoming her first child. “I’ve by no means felt a lot respect and love […]
Bailey and boyfriend DDG (actual title Darryl Dwayne Grandberry Jr.) introduced in January that they’d welcomed their first child weeks earlier. They by no means publicly confirmed the Little Mermaid star’s being pregnant.
“Halle advised associates it was to guard their child and relationship from scrutiny, however it was all very unusual to these round them,” a supply completely advised Us Weekly final month.
DDG and Halle Bailey. Amy Sussman/WireImage for Parkwood
Bailey has since denied that she deliberately hid her being pregnant from her followers and followers.
“I by no means lied and even stated something about it honey, making a joke about my nostril was the farthest I went,” she wrote by way of X on January 28, referring to a earlier clapback about having a “being pregnant nostril” symptom. “I’ll by no means perceive why you might be mad I protected my very own peace, wouldn’t you do the identical?”
Bailey added, “And I’m gonna share my pics now if I wish to as a result of my son is right here safely, if u don’t wanna see it simply preserve scrolling child lol God bless you!”
Actress Halle Bailey and rapper Darryl Dwayne “DDG” Grandberry Jr. first met by way of their respective careers. “I’ve been a fan of his for years,” the Little Mermaid star gushed to Essence in November 2022. “I grew up being on YouTube and would all the time see the younger Black creators and was always impressed by them. He […]
The actress and DDG, 26, have been relationship since 2022, however aren’t serious about welcoming child No. 2 anytime quickly.
“No, I imagine you gotta wait six weeks for that. That’s what I used to be advised,” DDG stated throughout a Snapchat Q&A session final month “[It’s] too early. I don’t wish to break up consideration too fast. Like, I wanna at the least simply wait a bit of bit — let him get the full-blown consideration proper now. Our complete world is him proper now, so I don’t wanna take that away from him. … I need him to expertise that for a number of years.”
The rapper additional concluded that it’s as much as “Lord Jesus Christ” if he and Bailey have extra children.
