Halsey is always an open book — in the most refreshing way!
For the upcoming music issue of Playboy, the 22-year-old got real about her miscarriage, Planned Parenthood, and what it was like growing up biracial but “passing” for white.
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When asked about being half black, the songstress said:
“I’m half black. My dad managed a car dealership, wore a suit to work, had a nice watch, was always clean-shaven, handsome, played golf on the weekends. And people would come up to him like, ‘Yo, brotha! What’s up!’ And my dad would be like, ‘Hi.├óΓé¼┬ª'”
But for her personally, the Colors singer found it tricky to navigate at times:
“I’m white-passing. I’ve accepted that about myself and have never tried to control anything about black culture that’s not mine. I’m proud to be in a biracial family, I’m proud of who I am, and I’m proud of my hair. One of my big jokes a long time ago was ‘I look white, but I still have white boys in my life asking me why my nipples are brown.’ Every now and then I experience these racial blips. I look like a white girl, but I don’t feel like one. I’m a black woman. So it’s been weird navigating that. When I was growing up I didn’t know if I was supposed to love TLC or Britney.”
As for the reaction she gets when people learn she’s not 100% white, Halsey explained:
“White guilt is funny, but this is a really hard time for white allies. People don’t want to do too much but want to do enough, and in my bubble of Los Angeles I’m surrounded by a lot of good people with a lot of good intentions. But as I learned in this past election, my bubble is just a small fraction of how this country operates. That is ultimately my greatest frustration with the public perception of any sort of activism: the mentality of ‘Well, it’s not affecting me.’ Open your fucking eyes.”
Ch-ch-check out everything else she had to say during the interview HERE!
[Image via Playboy.]
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