Days after British designer Alexa Chung called out the abysmally slow diagnosis stats around the relatively common, but potentially debilitating, disease endometriosis, fellow sufferer Halsey also spoke out about the subject.
Having previously revealed the illness has led her to suffer multiple miscarriages, the 25 year-old opened up to The Guardian about her difficult experiences.
'It’s the most inadequate I’ve ever felt.' The New Jersey-born music artist said of her experience of miscarriage. 'Here I am achieving this out-of-control life, and I can’t do the one thing I’m biologically put on this earth to do. Then I have to go onstage and be this sex symbol of femininity and empowerment? It is demoralising.'
The performance artist, who is currently dating 33 year-old Evan Peters, added that, despite her diagnosis it is, 'looking like [motherhood is] something that’s gonna happen for me. That’s a miracle.'
Halsey has been fairly open about her desire to become a mother, penning a song titled 'More' for her new album Manic on the topic with the moving lyrics: '...when you decide it's your time to arrive / I've loved you for all of my life', so we are happy to hear his news for the young star.
27/03/19: Halsey Reveals She Has Suffered 3 Miscarriages, 4 Surgeries And Chronic Pain Due To Endometriosis
Singer Halsey has proved time and time again she is hellbent on using her fame and platform to start difficult discussions.
The 24 year-old New Yorker bravely recited a poem titled 'Story of Mine' detailing the sexual abuse she, and people she knew, had previously suffered at the second Women's March in 2018.
And earlier this year the 'Without Me' singer called out Victoria's Secret (for whom she had just performed) and expressed her disappointment in the allegedly transphobic comments made by L Brands' chief marketing officer, Ed Razek, in November.
Now the young star has revealed, according to the Daily Mail, that she suffers from near-debilitating endometriosis, which is a condition where tissue similar to the lining of the womb starts to grow in other places such as the ovaries and fallopian tubes.
In now-deleted Tweets, the star reportedly revealed the condition has lead to three miscarriages and four surgeries. According to research, endometriosis affects 10% of women world wide.
'I have endometriosis,' she wrote, 'I’ve had 3 miscarriages, 4 surgeries, pretty much in pain every day of my life and I’ve donated/raised upwards of $300,000 (£226,837.50) in the name of research and support. I’m not trying to be quirky. Or different. I’m just trying to normalise an under-discussed illness.'
Halsey, whose real name is Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, continued to discuss chronic illness in general in these Tweets:
Despite being extremely common, endometriosis is famously difficult to diagnose.
Halsey echoed this sentiment in a 2018 interview where she detailed, 'I got misdiagnosed with chronic fatigue, with anxiety, they were telling me I was fainting because I was anxious.'
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Daisy Murray is the Digital Fashion Editor at ELLE UK, spotlighting emerging designers, sustainable shopping, and celebrity style. Since joining in 2016 as an editorial intern, Daisy has run the gamut of fashion journalism - interviewing Molly Goddard backstage at London Fashion Week, investigating the power of androgynous dressing and celebrating the joys of vintage shopping.
