For the majority of women, it’s also a source of trauma, inadequacy, and pain, which can bring up conflicting emotions. For some, the body is a source of power, pleasure, and joy. That’s true, but I believe Halsey’s candidness about her feelings of inadequacy following her miscarriages bring something else to light: the link we reinforce between womanhood and maternity.Īs women, we often place a lot of our value on our bodies: their sizes, shapes, what they do for us, and what they can sometimes lack. It’s easy to take away from Halsey’s story that celebrities like her wield the power to bring important publicity to sensitive issues like miscarriage and reproductive disorders given their major public platforms. One of its most touching lines is “And when you decide it's your time to arrive / I've loved you for all of my life.” In her new song “More,” released this past January, she sings about her intense desire to have a child and the feelings of hopelessness and hopefulness surrounding successfully conceiving. Still, the singer continues to share her struggle with the disorder and several miscarriages, along with their impact on her dream of being a mother. Her WhatsApp account got hacked and she received multiple pictures of fetus parts. Some even came to one of her shows in Toronto and held up bloody baby dolls in the crowd.
When she first came forward about her miscarriages, people claimed she was lying and actually had an abortion instead. “I feel a lot better,” she told her interviewer.ĭespite Halsey’s willingness to share her diagnosis and use her celebrity status to educate others on endometriosis, her bravery wasn’t always met with sympathy and understanding. She followed by revealing to them that the experience pushed her to seek treatment and undergo surgery. “The sensation of looking a couple hundred teenagers in the face while you're bleeding through your clothes and still having to do the show, and realizing in that moment I never want to make that choice ever again of doing what I love or not being able to because of this disease,” she told the doctors. Two years later on a special segment of T he Doctors, Halsey shared the story of her onstage miscarriage, caused by her endometriosis, from a few years before. When the singer was finally given the news that she had endometriosis, she recalled feeling relieved, as well as dispirited by the realization she’d have to live with the condition forever. At first, medical professionals thought she was dehydrated, stressed, or dealing with chronic fatigue. This pain, which Halsey herself has called “ excruciating,” was also a source of anxiety for the singer before she was diagnosed. The condition can cause infertility, but its hallmark is sometimes debilitating, chronic pain-painful menstruation, urination, bowel movements, and sexual intercourse. Endometriosis is a disorder characterized by the growth of endometrial tissue-uterine lining-in abnormal places such as the fallopian tubes and ovaries.
The singer has endometriosis, something she publicly spoke about dealing with in 2016. Then I have to go onstage and be this sex symbol of femininity and empowerment? It is demoralising.” “Here I am achieving this out-of-control life, and I can’t do the one thing I’m biologically put on this earth to do. “It’s the most inadequate I’ve ever felt,” she said. In an interview with The Guardian published at the end of February, Halsey opened up about her miscarriages, a part of her personal journey that made her the target of online abuse. Recently, though, Halsey revealed that she wishes she’d kept the latter to herself. The singer has been famously outspoken about her bisexuality, her personal experiences with sexual assault and rape, and-a year after suffering a miscarriage onstage in 2015-even her reproductive health. Since coming onto the music scene back in 2014, Halsey has proved she’s not afraid to get personal.
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