Hailey Bieber opened up about marriage to singer Justin Bieber and the perceived overlap fans think they had with his ex Selena Gomez.
Hailey Bieber spent the majority of her interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast talking about her husband, YouTube sensation-turned-global pop star Justin Bieber.
But she totally gets that.
“I think even for starters — this, even me talking about him or talking about our relationship — people will take that and be like, ‘all she ever talks about is her relationship with him,’” the 25-year-old told host Alex Cooper during the episode, which premiered Wednesday.
“I’m just like, well, we are married and he’s a huge part of my life and obviously people are very interested in our life together and he’s a humongous public figure. It’s a little bit unavoidable at times. I do try to, you know, have my own thing, but it’s like our lives completely mesh together.”
The influencer (née Hailey Baldwin), daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin and niece of Alec Baldwin, has known Bieber since 2009 and the two have been linked in some capacity since 2014. The “Peaches” singer famously opened up about the early days of their relationship in a 2016 issue of GQ after he briefly dated reality star Kourtney Kardashian and made near-daily headlines for his on-off romance with singer-actor Selena Gomez.
The Rhode skincare founder and maker of the viral $17-Erewhon smoothie addressed the internet furor over her relationship with the Grammy winner, which hit a fever pitch when they got engaged in 2018 when she was only 21 and he was 24. She thinks a lot of the hate they got had to do with their ages, and even she “personally never thought” she’d get married that young. (The pair tied the knot in a series of ceremonies in 2018 and 2019.)
Bieber said she understands that the timing seemed “very rapid and very fast” from the outside, and that it could be interpreted as “really drastic and really crazy.” But their union “felt correct for the two of us at the time” and still does. “At 18 years old, I knew 100% that that was my husband,” she said.
The model also addressed the perceived overlap her relationship with Bieber appeared to have with “Jelena,” the term for Bieber’s protracted and high-profile romance with Rare Beauty founder Gomez from 2010 to 2017.
Fans of Gomez have long held that the Biebers dated while the “Yummy” singer and Gomez rekindled their relationship in 2017. Some even launched a campaign in December 2020 to troll Bieber’s Instagram Live sessions with negative commentary. But the model attempted to put an end to the overlap rumors on “Call Her Daddy.” (Not surprisingly, detractors have already come after her for speaking on the topic just before Gomez premieres her documentary “My Mind and Me” and after the actor weathered numerous health scares and “certain abuse” while dating the pop star.
