Halle Bailey Admits Pregnancy Cravings Led to Breaking Her Vegan Diet | Food

Halle Bailey is opening up a couple of main change she made to her eating regimen whereas pregnant.

In an Instagram Live captured by The Shade Room, the Little Mermaid actress, 24, revealed how she began craving meat whereas pregnant along with her son Halo — whom she shares with boyfriend DDG — and broke away from veganism.

In the clip, Bailey is consuming and her 8-month-old might be heard within the background. She tells the digicam that after she had been displaying off her cooking expertise, followers started asking her if she was nonetheless vegan.

“And the answer is: not anymore,” she stated. “And the reason being is, I think I told some of you guys that when I was pregnant, I had just, like, started craving meat.”

The singer stated that she had been vegan for 13 years and when she began craving meat, “I was just like, well, I'm gonna give my body what it wants right now because I'm doing a really hard job of growing a human, and I also wanted to make sure Halo was getting the proper nutrients and things he needed.”

She famous that she nonetheless loves and eats vegan meals more often than not. “If I have an inkling or craving for chicken or something, I'll eat it,” she defined. “But I don't eat a lot of meat. But it's like if I want it, I'm gonna have it and then that's it.”

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Bailey additionally stated that she discovered that it is not abnormal for vegan people to break away from their diet while pregnant.

“I was looking it up and I see so many women like me who were vegan for years and years. Once they got pregnant, it was, like, out the window,” she defined.

Bailey, who welcomed Halo in 2023, has been candid about her well being since giving beginning. She spoke about her postpartum journey in April, telling followers in an Instagram video that she felt “triggered” by seeing feedback on social media about her household.

“Before I had a child and I would hear people talk about postpartum, it would kind of just go in one ear and out the other. I didn't realize how serious of a thing it actually was,” Bailey stated on the time.

“Now going through it, it almost feels like you're swimming in this ocean that's like the biggest waves you've ever felt and you're trying not to drown. And you're trying to come up for air,” she continued.

Bailey concluded her replace by reminding followers that issues aren't at all times what they appear on-line.

“Even though you may look up to certain people and you think that they are celebrities, and they appear it have it all together, you never know what somebody else is going through, especially someone who just had a baby literally,” she stated.