{"id":19162,"date":"2026-05-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotnessrater.com\/articles\/?p=19162"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:48:10","slug":"halsey-a-badass-beauty-you-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotnessrater.com\/articles\/2026\/05\/16\/halsey-a-badass-beauty-you-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Halsey: A Badass Beauty You Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

This singer is just beautiful, and we really believe she deserves a spot here.\u00a0 Yup, Halsey<\/a> will give those wannabe Instagram models a run for their money.\u00a0 Because look at this woman…<\/p>\n

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She is gorgeous beyond words, and she is just oozing with sex appeal. Think G.I. Jane.\u00a0 Nope, not just because she can sport a military cut but because she looks like a toughie who can beat you up to submission.\u00a0 Like a big cat. Nope, not a cougar as she is only 30 years old.\u00a0 A snow leopard is what she is. Majestic, stunning, magical, fierce.<\/p>\n

Who is Halsey<\/h2>\n

Halsey is the kind of music artist<\/a> you recognize the moment they open their mouth\u2014thanks to that unmistakable voice and a knack for lyrics that cut straight to the heart.\u00a0 They broke out in a big way with their 2015 debut album Badlands and then leveled up to global pop dominance with \u201cCloser,\u201d their mega-hit collab with The Chainsmokers in 2016.<\/p>\n

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Since then, Halsey\u2019s been racking up the hardware: three Billboard Music Awards, an American Music Award, a Billboard Women in Music Award, plus three Grammy nods.\u00a0 Oh, and in 2020, Time magazine decided they belonged on its list of the 100 most influential people in the world\u2014no big deal.<\/p>\n

Beyond the music, Halsey\u2019s also made waves as a passionate activist, speaking out on everything from mental health to racial justice.\u00a0 Basically, they\u2019re not just on your playlist\u2014they\u2019re out there changing the conversation too.<\/p>\n

Her Early Life<\/h2>\n

Halsey entered the world as Ashley Nicolette Frangipane on September 29, 1994, in Edison, New Jersey.\u00a0 Her mom, Nicole, worked as an EMT, while her dad, Chris, managed a car dealership.\u00a0 With Italian and Hungarian roots on her mom\u2019s side and African American (plus a hint of Irish) heritage on her dad\u2019s, Halsey grew up in a richly mixed household with two younger brothers, Sevian and Dante.<\/p>\n

Music was in the picture early\u2014she learned violin, viola, and cello before switching to guitar at 14.\u00a0 Her soundtrack growing up included Alanis Morissette, Justin Bieber, and the alt-rock band Brand New.\u00a0 But stability?\u00a0 Not so much.\u00a0 Her family moved constantly, and by the time she hit her teens, she\u2019d already attended six different schools.<\/p>\n

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School wasn\u2019t exactly kind either.\u00a0 Halsey was bullied, and after a suicide attempt at 17, she spent nearly three weeks in the hospital.\u00a0 It was then she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, something she shares with her mom.\u00a0 She described herself as an \u201cunconventional child,\u201d which, in her case, also meant experimenting with drugs and growing up fast.\u00a0 Around this time, she started dating a 24-year-old who lived near Brooklyn\u2019s Halsey Street station\u2014hence, the stage name.<\/p>\n

She graduated high school in 2012, tried art school at RISD, but had to leave because of money issues. Community college didn\u2019t stick either.\u00a0 Her parents eventually kicked her out, and she found herself bouncing between a Lower Manhattan basement shared with \u201cdegenerate stoners,\u201d the occasional homeless shelter, and her grandma\u2019s house.\u00a0 At one point, she even considered sex work to get by.<\/p>\n

It was a rough start, but it\u2019s the kind of grit and chaos that shaped the Halsey the world knows today.<\/p>\n

Career Journey<\/h2>\n

Halsey started writing music at 17, but it wasn\u2019t until 2012 that she really began putting herself out there\u2014posting covers and original snippets on YouTube, Kik, and especially Tumblr, where she went by the moody username se7enteenblack.<\/p>\n

Her first taste of viral fame came from a cheeky parody of Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cI Knew You Were Trouble,\u201d poking fun at Swift\u2019s whirlwind romance with Harry Styles.\u00a0 She even followed it up with another song about their relationship in 2013, because if there\u2019s one thing the internet loves, it\u2019s celebrity drama set to music.<\/p>\n

Then, in early 2014, fate (and a house party) stepped in. Halsey met a so-called \u201cmusic guy\u201d who asked her to collaborate.\u00a0 The result was \u201cGhost\u201d, a breakup track about her ex.\u00a0 She tossed it up on SoundCloud, and within hours it blew up.\u00a0 Labels started circling, and she eventually signed with Astralwerks, saying they gave her the creative freedom others didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

From there, she hustled hard\u2014playing acoustic shows under different stage names and turning years of poetry into raw, diary-like songs.\u00a0 Writing, she said, became her therapy.\u00a0 In August 2014, she hit the road with The Kooks, and by October she\u2019d dropped her first EP, Room 93, which crept onto the Billboard 200 and snagged No. 3 on the Top Heatseekers chart. Not bad for a debut.<\/p>\n

Momentum kept building. By early 2015, she was playing South by Southwest\u2014where she became the most tweeted-about performer of the night\u2014before co-headlining a tour with Young Rising Sons and opening for Imagine Dragons.<\/p>\n

Finally, on August 28, 2015, Halsey released her first studio album, Badlands\u2014a moody, cinematic project she described as a dystopian world representing her mental state at the time.\u00a0 Listeners connected in droves.\u00a0 The album went double Platinum in the U.S., cementing her place as more than just an internet success story.<\/p>\n

Even before her debut album Badlands dropped, Halsey already had her eyes set on round two.\u00a0 She spent 2016 and 2017 quietly working on her next project, teasing fans along the way.\u00a0 In January 2017, she even slipped out a sultry single, \u201cNot Afraid Anymore,\u201d for the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack\u2014because of course Halsey belongs on the steamiest soundtrack of the decade.<\/p>\n

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That summer, she released her second album, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, and soon after leveled up from Astralwerks to the big leagues at Capitol Records.\u00a0 Her first single with the label, \u201cWithout Me,\u201d dropped in October 2018 and became a monster hit.\u00a0 And she didn\u2019t stop there\u2014early 2019 was a full-on collaboration spree: a Juice WRLD remix of \u201cWithout Me,\u201d the heartbreak anthem \u201c11 Minutes\u201d with Yungblud and Travis Barker, and then \u201cBoy With Luv\u201d with BTS.\u00a0 That last one shattered YouTube records with 74.6 million views in 24 hours, because, well\u2026\u00a0 it\u2019s BTS and Halsey. Internet: conquered.<\/p>\n

But Halsey isn\u2019t just about music\u2014she\u2019s got a way with words, too.\u00a0 In June 2020, she announced her first poetry book, I Would Leave Me If I Could, which instantly became a bestseller.\u00a0 That same year, she released her first live album, Badlands (Live from Webster Hall), a nostalgic throwback for fans.<\/p>\n

Then came the boldest move yet: her 2021 album If I Can\u2019t Have Love, I Want Power, produced by none other than Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails fame.\u00a0 Dark, cinematic, and critically adored\u2014it was Halsey at her most fearless.<\/p>\n

Of course, she also knows how to keep labels on their toes.\u00a0 In 2022, when Capitol tried to hold back her single \u201cSo Good\u201d until it could be tested for TikTok virality (yes, really), Halsey clapped back with\u2014what else?\u2014a viral TikTok.\u00a0 The song was eventually released, proving once again she knows exactly how to play the game.<\/p>\n

And in 2024, she came back swinging with \u201cThe End,\u201d the lead single from her upcoming fifth album, The Great Impersonator, a deeply personal project tackling her health battles.\u00a0 Trust Halsey to turn pain into art\u2014and drop it with style.<\/p>\n

Musical Style and Influences<\/h2>\n

Growing up, Halsey had a soundtrack that swung from grunge to hip-hop without missing a beat.\u00a0 Her mom was blasting The Cure, Alanis Morissette, and Nirvana, while her dad preferred the swagger of Biggie, Slick Rick, Bone Thugs, and Tupac.\u00a0 The mash-up of angst and flow shaped her musical DNA, and when she later discovered Matty Healy\u2019s raw, offbeat lyricism, it only cemented the fearless, genre-bending style she\u2019s known for today.<\/p>\n

Halsey credits Dolores O’Riordan as her major vocal influence, saying “Dolores O’Riordan was a massive influence for me.\u00a0 I grew up listening to the Cranberries with my mother and learned so much about having an unconventional singing voice.\u00a0 Dolores taught me how to use my voice in a manner that was emotive, even if I wasn’t classically skilled…\u00a0 Her voice was beautiful to me.\u00a0 And she was a fierce badass trailblazing woman in the rock landscape…\u00a0 Always an inspiration to me…”<\/em><\/p>\n

The biggest influence on her live performances is Adam Lazzara, the frontman of Taking Back Sunday; she noted, “One of the most inspiring things I’ve ever seen is watching [Taking Back Sunday] live and watching Adam use that microphone as a prop and I thought yep, I’m gonna do that.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Halsey\u2019s voice is instantly recognizable\u2014an \u201cindie\u201d style that fans either worship or love to debate.\u00a0 She even sings with an accent that doesn\u2019t match her speaking voice, which only adds to the mystique.\u00a0 True to form, her songs are deeply personal, often spinning her life into story-driven lyrics.\u00a0 And when she writes about relationships with women, it\u2019s not just art\u2014it\u2019s her way of putting her bisexuality front and center, no footnotes needed.<\/p>\n

People love to slap the \u201cpop\u201d label on Halsey, but she\u2019s never really seen herself that way.\u00a0 She\u2019s always identified as more of an alternative artist\u2014someone who can jump on a pop collab without suddenly being boxed in as a pop star.\u00a0 In fact, she\u2019s pointed out that the only reason she gets categorized that way is because she\u2019s a woman.\u00a0 By 2019, she went full rebel, calling herself \u201cthe anti-popstar\u201d and making it clear she doesn\u2019t care what box people put her in\u2014so long as the music actually resonates.<\/p>\n

Activism and Philanthropy<\/h2>\n

Halsey doesn\u2019t just sing about raw, messy truths\u2014she lives them out loud.\u00a0 After surviving a suicide attempt at 17, she threw her voice behind the \u201cI\u2019m Listening\u201d campaign in 2017, a live nationwide broadcast focused on mental health and suicide prevention.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also proudly feminist and unapologetically political. After the 2017 Women\u2019s March, she pledged $1 to Planned Parenthood for every retweet\u2014Twitter came through, and she cut a check for $100,000.\u00a0 A year later, she stood before more than 200,000 protesters at the Women\u2019s March and traded a speech for a gut-punch of a poem, A Story Like Mine, where she shared her own experiences of assault and violence.<\/p>\n

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Her activism didn\u2019t stop there. She showed up at March for Our Lives to demand gun reform, dragged Ivanka Trump on Twitter for her tone-deaf posts, and even called out Victoria\u2019s Secret after performing at their fashion show, blasting the brand\u2019s lack of inclusivity for trans models.<\/p>\n

Climate change?\u00a0 She sang on the 2019 all-star charity single \u201cEarth.\u201d Racial justice?\u00a0 She was on the frontlines of the George Floyd protests in L.A. with then-boyfriend Yungblud.\u00a0 And when it came to lasting impact, she launched The Black Creators Fund in 2020, offering financial support and platforms to Black artists.<\/p>\n

In short: Halsey doesn\u2019t just make headlines for her music\u2014she makes them for standing up, speaking out, and refusing to stay quiet.<\/p>\n

Facts and Trivia<\/h2>\n

Halsey has always been open about who she is and who she loves.\u00a0 She\u2019s proudly bisexual\u2014long before fame ever came calling, she was dating women\u2014and in 2021 she let fans know she uses both she\/her and they\/them pronouns.<\/p>\n

Her dating history reads like a playlist of the music world (and a couple of Hollywood cameos).\u00a0 She was once smitten with The 1975\u2019s Matty Healy\u2014she even credits him with inspiring her early songwriting.\u00a0 Then came Norwegian producer Lido, who not only helped create Badlands but also fueled the concept behind Hopeless Fountain Kingdom.\u00a0 In 2017, she fell hard (and fast) for rapper G-Eazy; their love anthem \u201cHim & I\u201d played like a modern-day Bonnie-and-Clyde ballad, but by late 2018 the romance had fizzled\u2014and \u201cWithout Me\u201d was her mic-drop on the breakup.<\/p>\n

Afterward, she was linked to Yungblud (all the way until fall 2019) and then actor Evan Peters, who briefly stepped into her love story from late 2019 to early 2020.<\/p>\n

By 2021, her focus shifted: she welcomed her son with Turkish-American screenwriter Alev Aydin.\u00a0 Though the relationship didn\u2019t last, the two settled into co-parenting\u2014custody agreements and all\u2014with Halsey making sure her little boy could still tag along on tour.<\/p>\n

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Love, however, wasn\u2019t off the table. In 2023, sparks flew with Canadian actor Avan Jogia, and by September 2024, Halsey was happily flashing a brand-new engagement ring.
\nHalsey has never shied away from talking about her health\u2014mental or physical.\u00a0 Back in 2015, she even summed herself up as \u201cjust this fucked up stoner kid who made it,\u201d which, honestly, might be the most Halsey thing ever.<\/p>\n

At 17, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a condition her mother also lives with.\u00a0 That diagnosis came after a suicide attempt and a 17-day stay in a psychiatric hospital\u2014an incredibly heavy chapter that, not long after, gave way to her breakthrough in music.\u00a0 She\u2019s said that performing helps her cope, and she\u2019s come to see being bipolar not only as part of her story but also as something that makes her \u201creally empathetic.\u201d\u00a0 In 2021, she also revealed that she\u2019d been diagnosed with ADHD back in high school\u2014she thought she\u2019d \u201cgrown out of it,\u201d but during the pandemic, she revisited treatment and now takes medication.<\/p>\n

On top of that, Halsey has battled endometriosis.\u00a0 She went public with her diagnosis in 2016 after a miscarriage the year before, which she initially blamed on her brutal touring schedule.\u00a0 In reality, it was tied to her condition.\u00a0 In true \u201cshow must go on\u201d fashion, she once performed on stage just hours after realizing she was miscarrying\u2014terrifying, heartbreaking, and yet a window into the pressure she felt not to miss a beat in her career.<\/p>\n

Since then, she\u2019s spoken out often about endometriosis, from sitting down on The Doctors to talk about freezing her eggs, to addressing the pain publicly at the Endometriosis Foundation of America\u2019s Blossom Ball in 2018.<\/p>\n

Her Body Measurements<\/h2>\n

Halsey stands 5 feet, 4 inches and she rocks a 34-25-35 (32B bra size) figure.<\/p>\n

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Halsey Photos<\/h2>\n

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