Chloë Bailey Is Over the Comparisons to Her Sister Halle
Chlöe x Halle may have entered the limelight as a duo, but lately the Bailey sisters, now 23 and 21, have been carving out their own independence. While Chlöe dropped her first single, "Have Mercy," last year, Halle is set to star as Ariel in Disney's 2023 live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. They're both doing fine. Yet, Chlöe says, people have still tried pitting the two against one another.
In a new interview with In the Know for their January 2022 cover story, Chlöe opened up about the trajectory of her career with Halle, as well as the ways in which entering the biz alongside her sister exacerbated the scrutiny they've endured. "I hate when people online constantly try to compare my sister and I," she said. "It is the most shallow, most disturbing thing."
The "Have Mercy" singer pointed out the underlying role of race and gender behind these comparisons—adding that as Black women, she and Halle are not alone in the experience. "It was very off-putting to know how people would try to put two young Black sisters who love their craft so much and love each other so much, how they try to pit them against each other just because they're different in some ways," she said. "It's any Black, beautiful woman. Any woman, period. It's something all of us go through in our life in any field. It's just more multiplied because of the platform that I'm given on social media."
She continued. "No matter what women do, no matter how talented we are, no matter how screwed on our head is, someone will always have a problem because we choose to celebrate our body and the skin that we're in."
For Chlöe, it's important not to let all the scrutiny stifle to her radiance. "We shouldn't form ourselves and do certain things just because of what we think the world will say," she said. "It's not fair to ourselves to do that because it's more work thinking that way. It's easier to just be yourself and have fun and be free. It's more stifling and more suffocating when you're calculating what you can and can't do."
She strives to remain present in each moment as her authentic self, wasting no further energy calculating or questioning her natural behavior. "I've never sat down and been like, 'Okay. This is what I'm going to be. This is what I'm gonna do in public. This is what I'm gonna keep private.' I've never done that," she said. "I was just like, 'Fuck it. I'm gonna be myself. If people like it, they do. If they don't, they don't.' But I will say, when I am on stage, that person people see, that's the version of me that is completely unfiltered, completely confident, completely fearless."
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