Halle Bailey as Ariel in the 2023 live-action version of The Little Mermaid. Photo / Walt Disney Studios
Halle Bailey decided she had “no obligation” to share her pregnancy with the world.
The 23-year-old star revealed in December that she had welcomed son Halo with rapper DDG - whose real name is Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jnr - but had kept the news that she was even expecting to
herself. She has now admitted there was “no way in hell” she was ever going to share her “biggest joy” on such a large scale.
Speaking at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards, she said: “We are black women in entertainment, and although we signed up for the challenges of the spotlight, in this current climate, that spotlight burns brighter, hotter, and uninterrupted, whereas the scrutiny of its magnification leaves no concealment. I’ve learned from that spotlight over the past eight years.
”I’ve also, if I’m being honest, been burned by it, too, as we all have.
”There was no way in hell I was going to share the biggest joy of my world with anyone. Halo was my gift. He is the greatest blessing, and I had no obligation to expose him, me, or my family to that.”
