Halle Bailey is getting honest about some feelings she’s currently working through.
The actress and singer, 25, originally posted a video on her Snapchat that was then reshared on TikTok about feeling “really insecure” about her body after welcoming her son Halo back in January 2024.
“Right now, currently I am a little bit thicker than I usually am and I feel really insecure about it, a little bit,” says Bailey. “Because all my life, I’ve been like 120 lbs, really skinny. And then I had my baby and then when I was breastfeeding, I lost a bunch of weight.”
“So I felt like my body sort of snapped back to where I thought it did, at the time, but it still was very off,” she continues. “And now that I’m 25, I just feel myself like, ‘Oh. Weight is sticking more.’ Like, ok.”
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The Little Mermaid star goes on to say that she’s currently on vacation for one of the first times in a while, and has been working a schedule that’s made it hard for her to prioritize working out.
“This is my first time I’m taking a break. I was filming every day and being a mom to Halo every day. I didn’t have time anywhere between being on set and being with Halo to workout,” she explains. “So I’m a little fluffy right now because I kind of fell off of my consistent workouts.”
Bailey continues, saying that she recorded a video with her sister Chloe Bailey and after she posted it, she realized that she felt really insecure about how she looked in the video. The actress ended up asking her sister to take the video down after seeing comments from viewers about her body.
“I was insecure about it and what people were saying about my body and I don’t know, I get in my head about stuff like that,” she says. “But then today, I’m like, ‘I’m going to feel better about myself. I’m not going to be too hard on myself, because I’ve been working a real cool f——— job that I just finished.”
The actress says that it’s a new day and today, she wants to focus herself with a message about self-love and inspiration.
“Guys, I had a really great experience in New York and now I’m on vacation with my sister and we’re celebrating and we’re with my baby, we’re having a good time,” she says. “I’m not going to be so hard on myself. So my message of today — I’m telling this to myself — is to just enjoy the moment and not be too hard on yourself and let yourself live a little and have some [fun].”
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