In October 2023, stan Twitter exploded after Glamour Magazine’s digital edition unveiled a new interview with rising star Halle Bailey, best known as one half of musical act Chloe x Halle alongside sister Chloe Bailey, as well as Ariel in the 2023 live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.
Many stan news accounts posted a screenshot from Glamour’s website, in which Bailey appeared to announce that she had secretly wed boyfriend DDG, and had welcomed a baby at some point.
“Being a mom, being newly married – there’s the positive side of it, but also the negative,” a large-text quote read on the website. The quote now seems to have been scrubbed from the article, but not before celebrity gossip outlets on social media got a hold of it, confusing many of Bailey’s fans.
Are Halle Bailey and DDG married?
If Halle Bailey and DDG are actually married, they’re keeping it a well-hidden secret. The quote attributed to Bailey is actually that of Leigh-Anne Pinnock, singer and former member of girl group Little Mix, who is also interviewed in the same issue of Glamour. The error is a misprint, either by a publication staffer or a technical error.
Leigh Anne-Pinnock has twin daughters, born in 2021. She has been married to English footballer Andre Gray since June 2023. By all accounts, this would make Pinnock, “newly married,” as stated in the quote. The quote is also featured in Pinnock’s own Glamour interview and remains that way. It seems highly unlikely that two celebrities said the exact same thing to the same publication on the same day.
In addition, Halle Bailey, a born and raised American, would probably say “mom” and not “mum.” Even in print form, Americans and British people pronounce their colloquial words for mother in very different ways, and that would be reflected even in text form.
Most importantly of all, the digital version of her interview appears to no longer contain the large quote, and Bailey does make that statement anywhere else in the article. If Bailey had actually announced this, there’s every chance she would stand by her statement and it would not be removed from an interview.
In early January 2024, Halle Bailey announced the birth of her first child with DDG, a son named Halo. “Even though we’re a few days into the new year, the greatest thing that 2023 could have done for me, was bring me my son,” Bailey wrote on Instagram. Neither Halle nor DDG gave a specific date of birth for baby Halo.
Halle’s new era of motherhood may fuel speculation that she and her long-term boyfriend are now married, especially for those who may have seen the quote attributed to Bailey in Glamour just a few weeks prior, which now seems all the more fitting. However, neither party has ever suggested they are a married couple, and given all the evidence that the quote was originally from Leigh-Anne Pinnock, the rumor is still most likely false.