Hailey Bieber is brushing off the rumors surrounding her marriage to Justin Bieber – she’s got truth on her side.
In a recent appearance on Demi Lovato’s podcast 4D With Demi Lovato, the 24-year-old model got candid about dealing with other people’s narratives about her three-year marriage.
“I can only imagine what you’ve had to deal with dating, and then marrying, Justin, who’s in a very public position. Where do you find your resilience? How do you keep yourself going when people are attacking you or just saying mean things?” host Demi Lovato asked.
“I think one of the biggest things is you have to know what the truth is behind everything. You know, there’s so many narratives that float around about me, about him, about us together,” Hailey responded.
Justin and Hailey tied the knot in a New York City courthouse in 2018 after a whirlwind romance and have since weathered a number of speculations about their relationship.
“There’s one big fat narrative that goes around that’s like, ‘Justin is not nice to her and he mistreats her.’ And I’m just like, it’s so far from the truth and it’s the complete and utter opposite,” she continued. “I really am lucky to say I’m with someone who is extremely respectful of me, who makes me feel special every single day. And so when I see the opposite of that, I’m just like, ‘Huh?’ And everybody around who knows us personally would say the same thing.”
“So I’m just like at the end of the day, when there’s rumors… and that’s why I love that Lizzo song that’s out right now, which is like, ‘Oh, the rumors are true.’ I’m like, you know what, you’re right. All the rumors are true, baby,” Hailey said. “It’s just, you have to be able to fight all the lies and all the bulls–t that people come up with, with what is actually the truth.”
“So if the lie is they’re miserable in their relationship, it’s like, well, the truth is that we’ve literally never been more obsessed with each other and we have so much fun together, and you have to surround yourself with people, I think, that remind you of that too,” she went on.
And at times when things tend to get a little too overwhelming, Hailey also noted that it’s Justin who often helps her remember the truth.
“I think Justin does a very good job of reminding me because I have my low days where I’m like, ‘This is too much and all the things people are saying, I can’t take it today,'” she said. “Again, he’ll come in and be like, ‘Well, the truth is this, the truth is that you’re good and you’re secure and you’re loved and all of your friends love you and your family loves you and I love you.'”
“To be honest, he’s my best friend, so sometimes you don’t even have to say anything,” she added. “Sometimes you can just be there.”
However, Hailey admits “there were times where I felt like I lost that within our relationship, especially when it was new and in the beginning.”
Being able to establish her own identity in their marriage is important to her and “was actually one of the biggest things that scared me about getting married.”
“When we split up and we didn’t talk for a very long time, I feel like I worked very hard to continue establishing who Hailey was and I still work to establish that,” she said of their time apart – Justin and Hailey previously dated in their teens, but went their separate ways for a couple of years before reconciling and eventually getting married.
“At the end of the day, it doesn’t bother me when somebody’s like, ‘Oh, you’re Justin’s wife.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m Justin’s wife!’ Because where is the lie?”
Nowadays, she doesn’t mind being constantly linked to Justin, but doesn’t shy away from asserting her own identity beyond their relationship.
“When you marry someone that is really well known, you also accept that a lot of the time people are going to be like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s blah, blah blah’s wife.’ It doesn’t bother me,” she said. “It bothers me when people try to take it and flip it and be like, ‘People wouldn’t know who you were if you weren’t his wife.’ Because I disagree, I’m sorry, but I disagree.”
