Iggy Azalea no longer feels “comfortable” being in the public eye.
Iggy Azalea
The 31-year-old rapper recently revealed she will be taking a break from music after the release of her new album, ‘End of an Era’, and has now said her decision to step away comes as she doesn’t feel comfortable with the spotlight now that she’s a mother to her 15-month-old son, Onyx.
She said: "My decision to not make any more music is ultimately, really at this point, truly 95 percent of it is about the fact that I just don't feel that I am comfortable being that level open to the public.
“Maybe it's partially because I have a son now and I feel that maternal instinct to want to really protect him and have that safe space. And I don't really want to invite strangers to have an opinion about my life so much anymore."
Iggy also admitted she doesn’t want to tour any more because she doesn’t want to spend any time away from her son – whom she has with rapper Playboi Carti – and said her tour with Pitbull later this month will be her “last big hurrah”.
She added: "So it's more about that but also, I really don't want to tour anymore because I have my son, and I'm so excited I'm going on this big Pitbull tour that starts on the 19th actually, which is my last big hurrah.
“I'll still do squat dates and things like that, but in terms of an aggressive tour where you're away all the time, I don't want my son to be transient in that way, always on a tour bus. I admire people that do it and do it well, but for me, that's not my vision for my future.”
The ‘Fancy’ hitmaker said public scrutiny of her life is also what prompted her to stop sharing pictures of her son on social media.
Speaking to ‘Entertainment Tonight’, she said: "I post him on my close friends' stories on Instagram. So everybody I want to see Onyx is seeing Onyx all the time. It's not that it necessarily hurts my feelings, I'm a grownup, but it's my job to protect my son as a mother. So when I see something like that, that's so extreme, I would love to share them all the time, but that wouldn't be really me protecting him knowing that that's what's going on, so I can't do that."
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