Halsey says pregnancy has 'leveled' her perception of gender instead of making her feel more like a woman
- Halsey opened up about her "strange" and "liberating" pregnancy with an Instagram post on Thursday.
- "I thought pregnancy would give me very strong, binary feelings about 'womanhood,'" she wrote.
- "But truly it has leveled my perception of gender entirely."
Halsey says pregnancy has affected her in different ways than she expected.
The 26-year-old singer-songwriter, who recently announced she's expecting her first child, opened up about the "strange" experience with an Instagram post on Thursday.
"I've been thinking lots about my body," she wrote. "it's strange to watch yourself change so quickly. I thought pregnancy would give me very strong, binary feelings about 'womanhood' but truly it has leveled my perception of gender entirely."
"My sensitivity to my body has made me hyper aware of my humanness and that's all. Doing a remarkable thing. And it's grand. I hope the feeling lasts."
The "Manic" singer added that she's been spending her time cooking, sleeping, and reading "lotssss of books."
"I thought there would be a lot of expectation or pressure on me to wake up everyday feeling like some 'girly-girly fertility goddess,'" she continued in a comment.
"But instead I wake up and eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired, and focus on growing a human. And that is all I expect myself to do. Liberating!"
Halsey, who is bisexual, previously told The Advocate that her "gender identity has always been super, super fluid."
"I've always really identified with being an androgynous performer," she told the magazine in January 2020.
"I don't identify as nonbinary or gender-fluid. I don't personally feel like I'm at the point in my life where I'm prepared to identify that way," she said. "Will that change? Possibly. I don't know. But I've never felt any reason to change the way that I refer to my gender identity."
Halsey has also been very open about her desire to have children, having described pregnancy last year as "the one thing I'm biologically put on this earth to do."