Halsey Discusses Romantic Relationship and Being In the Public Eye

26-year-old singer-songwriter Halsey recently opened up to Allure about the publicity of her relationship with her partner Alev Aydin and of her pregnancy, as well as her gender identity.

Halsey’s real name is Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, and she discussed how the world only sees her as her stage name. “I’m the tattooed rock star named Halsey, but growing up, I was a girl from New Jersey named Ashley.” The singer remembers having a common name that she shared with other girls and living in a boring place. She wanted to feel more remarkable. “I graduated high school when I was 17 and we moved to New York, and that’s when I was like, I don’t want to be one of seven Ashleys in my class.”

In her Allure shoot, the singer showed off her baby bump. She believes that she will get “Slaughtered on the Internet” for saying she is horrible at taking her prenatals. “I took them the first two months, and then the vomiting got really bad, and I had to make a choice between taking my prenatals and throwing up or maintaining the nutrients I did manage to eat that day. I was on so many medications — Diclegis and Zofran and all these anti-nausea, anti-vomiting medications.” She went to the doctor crying and worrying if her baby was okay because she hadn’t taken her prenatals in six weeks. She remembers feeling like “Such a failure.”

Halsey also reflected on the difficulty of trying to do everything perfectly while pregnant. “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 journal every single day. 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 says that her source of happiness is Alev Aydin, her partner and the father of her child. She reflects on the public’s opinion and how people initially weren’t very supportive of their relationship. “The judginess started from the beginning. Alev and I have been really good friends for four years. And when the stars aligned, our relationship became romantic and it was pretty evident that he and I were both like, ‘Oh, my gosh! You’re the person I’m supposed to start a family with.’ A lot of people had opinions about that.”

The star disliked the feeling of having to give up her privacy. She says, “Nobody knew I was dating someone. 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….’” She declares that when she became a high-profile celebrity, “I signed up to give my whole life away; my loved ones didn’t.”

Halsey reflected on the hardship of being a celebrity and dating someone because she didn’t want to drag her partner into any stressful situations. She says, “Part of the reason it took Alev and I so long to start dating was because I liked him so much. He was writing a movie about my life, a biopic, so we spent a lot of time together. One night we went somewhere really public together. As we were leaving, I got swallowed by a mob of paparazzi and fans and people wanting me to sign vinyls and whatever else. It was all very dramatic, like a movie scene.”

She remembers doubting if the relationship would work. “I looked over my shoulder and he’s being pushed away from the mob and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, I didn’t even say goodbye!’ I remember sitting in the car and being like, ‘I can never see him again. I like him too much to ruin his life and drag him into all this craziness.'” Although Halsey felt bad, Alev assured her that it wasn’t a big deal.

Fans showed their adoration for Halsey’s interview and her relationship on Twitter.

halsey talking about alev in that interview is so soft i’m so happy they found someone so special to start a family with

— lynn⁷ ⚔️🩸 (@theyshroom) July 13, 2021

regardless of whether halsey has given birth or not, i genuinely hope they don’t feel pressured to share their little one w the world right away. i also hope that fans are respectful of the fact her & alev might wanna cherish them privately for a while 💛

— jessicamariah 🥀 (@_Y0ungG0d_) July 13, 2021

Good god that allure Halsey interview made me softer than soft. 🥺

— marisa🌈⚔️🩸 (@comingdownmanic) July 13, 2021

HALSEY FOR ALLURE STOP THEY LOOK SO DAMN CUTE

— L⚔️⁷ (@daeguinterlude) July 13, 2021

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