diff --git a/src/HttpClient.ts b/src/HttpClient.ts
index 3e8cb382..7a550a48 100644
--- a/src/HttpClient.ts
+++ b/src/HttpClient.ts
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ export class HttpClient extends EventEmitter {
       status: -1,
       statusCode: -1,
       statusText: '',
+      statusMessage: '',
       headers: resHeaders,
       size: 0,
       aborted: false,
@@ -589,7 +590,7 @@ export class HttpClient extends EventEmitter {
 
       res.headers = response.headers;
       res.status = res.statusCode = response.statusCode;
-      res.statusText = STATUS_CODES[res.status] || '';
+      res.statusMessage = res.statusText = STATUS_CODES[res.status] || '';
       if (res.headers['content-length']) {
         res.size = parseInt(res.headers['content-length']);
       }
diff --git a/src/Response.ts b/src/Response.ts
index c588af1b..66618a8d 100644
--- a/src/Response.ts
+++ b/src/Response.ts
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ export type RawResponseWithMeta = Readable & {
   status: number;
   statusCode: number;
   statusText: string;
+  /**
+   * @alias statusText
+   * @deprecated use `statusText` instead
+   **/
+  statusMessage: string;
   headers: IncomingHttpHeaders;
   timing: Timing;
   // SocketInfo
diff --git a/test/index.test.ts b/test/index.test.ts
index b6a6c8ef..4a128179 100644
--- a/test/index.test.ts
+++ b/test/index.test.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ describe('index.test.ts', () => {
     it('should work', async () => {
       const response = await getDefaultHttpClient().request(`${_url}html`);
       assert.equal(response.status, 200);
+      assert.equal(response.statusText, 'OK');
+      assert.equal(response.res.statusMessage, 'OK');
+      assert.equal(response.res.statusText, 'OK');
       assert.equal(response.headers['content-type'], 'text/html');
       assert(response.headers.date);
       assert.equal(response.url, `${_url}html`);
@@ -338,6 +341,8 @@ describe('index.test.ts', () => {
         dataType: 'json',
       });
       assert.equal(response.status, 400);
+      assert.equal(response.res.statusMessage, 'Bad Request');
+      assert.equal(response.res.statusText, 'Bad Request');
       assert.deepEqual(response.data, { message: 'mock 400 bad request' });
 
       response = await httpClient.request(`${_url}bar?q=1`, {