Halle Bailey says that being a mother has given her the “greatest love” she has ever known.
The actor revealed towards the end of 2023 that she and her partner DDG had welcomed their son earlier in the year. Bailey took to social media on May 12 — which was Mother’s Day in the U.S. — to share a brand new picture from her time in the hospital.
“My first mother’s day [heart emoji] the greatest love i’ve ever known,” she wrote on Instagram.
The Little Mermaid star kept the news that she was even expecting to herself and recently now admitted that there was “no way in hell” that she was ever going to share her “biggest joy” on such a large scale.
“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,” Bailey said at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards.
“I’ve also, if I’m being honest, been burned by it, too, as we all have,” she continued.
“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.” she stated at the event.
The Color Purple actor then blamed the “state of the world” and hinted that the magnitude of social media was all behind her reasoning to keep things private.
“With the state of the world and the place it is in with men trying to force their will on our bodies, no one on social media — and for damn sure, no one on the planet — was going to tell me what to do with my body or what to share with the world,” Bailey said.
