The two have been married since 2018 and welcomed their son, Jack Blues, last August. However, spend some time online in pop culture spaces and you’ll be confronted with a range of theories going from “Hailey’s a stalker” to “Justin secretly hates her.”
In a new interview with Vogue, Hailey said that she would look at mean internet comments while struggling with her body image postpartum. Motherhood, she said, has “been my biggest teacher so far,” adding, “the biggest teacher in my relationship. You see your partner so differently.”
Noting the many false headlines she’ll read about herself and her relationship, Hailey explained, “I feel like I’ve fought so hard to try to get people to understand me, or know who I am, or see me for me. And people just don’t want to sometimes…And there’s nothing you can do about that.”
“I’ve been in a position where I’ve tried to tell my side of a story or correct a narrative or tell the truth of a lie and then they go, Well, she’s lying. Imagine how trapping that feels,” she continued. “I’ve learned so much from Justin, really. He’s been doing this literally since he was a child and he has had to face the most scrutiny of any person that I know. He was like, ‘Baby, trust me, I’ve been here before many, many times. You’re not going to win. There is no winning.’”
Emphasizing that most of what is written about her is “not real,” the 28-year-old said, “And that’s the thing: I have a real life. My real life is that I get to wake up to my beautiful family and my son and my friends and I have people that know me and love me and I love them.”
“Being postpartum is the most sensitive time I’ve ever gone through in my life, and learning a new version of myself is very difficult,” she continued, with the addition that she uses therapy to manage. “And to be doing that all the while going on the internet every day and people being like, They’re getting divorced and They’re this and They’re not happy: It is such a mindfuck. I cannot even begin to explain it. It’s a crazy life to live.”
Hailey said she further doesn’t “accept” the criticism into her life anymore, explaining, “Well, I thought seven years in it would’ve already, and it hasn’t. You would think after having a child, people would maybe move on, chill out a little bit, but no. So I guess these bitches are going to be mad.”
Justin himself told the publication, “I’ve done a lot of dumb things in my life, but the smartest thing I’ve ever done was marry Hailey.” He further said that their family of three meant that he is “walking in the days I always dreamed of.”
The singer thinks that Hailey is an easy target for folks to send their hate to, adding, “She’s in the spotlight, and has the attention because of her effortless knack for style, business, art, and fashion. And the way she makes being a mom and wife look easy.”
You can read the full interview here.