In a post shared on Instagram, Halsey announced that she has given birth to her first child with boyfriend Alev Aydin.
“Gratitude. For the most ‘rare’ and euphoric birth. Powered by love,” she wrote alongside a photo of her holding her newborn baby boy with Aydin nearby. “Ender Ridley Aydin. 7/14/2021.” The singer first revealed her pregnancy earlier this year with a Sam Dameshek-photographed maternity shoot.
Her announcement comes ahead of the release of her highly-anticipated new album and IMAX film of the same name, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. She previously released the cover art for the project, which features her on a throne with a child on her lap.
In a cover story for Allure earlier this month, Halsey spoke at length of her experiences with pregnancy. "When this pregnancy started, I was like, ‘You’re going to do yoga and eat flaxseed. You’re going to use essential oils and hypnobirth and meditate and fucking journal every single day,’” she said. “I have done none of those things. Zero. None. I eat cookies and had a bagel every single day for the first five months of my pregnancy.”
Halsey also briefly touched upon her relationship with Alex Aydin, whom she was good friends with for four years prior to becoming romantically involved. “Nobody knew I was dating someone,” she shared. “As if people were entitled to an update, like, ‘I’ve met someone, we’re going on dates, it’s getting serious, they’ve moved in, we’re planning a child, we are having a baby, we had a baby, this is the gender….’ I signed up to give my whole life away; my loved ones didn’t.”
Halsey’s new album is produced by Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, the Academy Award-winning duo behind The Social Network score. The hour-long film and record are set to drop Aug. 27 via Capitol Records.
