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Halle Bailey is formally a part of that mother world.
“The Little Mermaid” star welcomed her first little one with boyfriend and rapper DDG, the brand new mother and father revealed on Instagram late Saturday.
Bailey shared a photo of the baby’s hand, with a gold bracelet adorning his wrist together with his title: Halo.
“regardless that we’re a couple of days into the brand new yr, the best factor that 2023 might have completed for me, was deliver me my son.. welcome to the world my halo,” Bailey wrote in the caption, including with laughing emojis, “the world is determined to know you.”
“my largest blessing by far 👶🏽❤️ son son.. by no means been so in love,” DDG wrote in a caption of the same photo on his Instagram account.
USA TODAY has reached out to Bailey’s representatives for remark.
The information comes after months of fan hypothesis that Bailey and DDG had been anticipating, with Bailey even pushing back against scrutiny of her physical appearance on social media in November and December 2023.
“I simply additionally wanna say I am so very grateful for my actual supporters who’re respectful of girls’s our bodies and loving,” Bailey wrote on her Instagram story in December. “Being below a microscope is just not simple however for the actual ones who present unconditional love religiously, I recognize you.”
Bailey and DDG, whose actual title is Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr., went public with their relationship in March 2022 when the “I am Geekin” rapper shared a romantic tribute for Bailey’s 22nd birthday on Instagram, per People magazine. The Chloe x Halle singer revealed in an August 2022 interview with Essence that the 2 met via social media after DDG messaged her on-line.
For Halloween, the couple tapped into their playful facet and paid tribute to iconic {couples} in popular culture, corresponding to R&B icons Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown and Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur of their “Poetic Justice” roles.
“The Shade Purple” actress opened up about her relationship with the rapper and the influence it’s had on her private development in an interview with People magazine in Might.
“The most effective factor about younger love is that you just’re in a position to proceed to seek out your self via this journey of loving anyone else,” Bailey stated on the time. “I really feel like issues change when love will get extra concerned in your life. I’ve positively found extra inside myself as a girl. … It is a actually cool factor to undergo, however a transformative expertise.”
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