Justin Bieber Was Celibate For A Year Before Marrying Hailey Baldwin, Says "Marriage Is Hard" In First Couple's Interview For Vogue

Posted on Thu Feb 7th, 2019 8:30am PDT       By X17 Staff


So many confessions!

Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin gave their first joint interview to Vogue, and discussed everything from marriage to JB's past drug abuse. The most interesting revelation? The Biebs didn't have sex for a year before marrying his model wife! Wait... wasn't he "dating" Selena Gomez just a few months before these two tied the knot?

"[God] doesn’t ask us not to have sex for him because he wants rules and stuff. He’s like, ‘I’m trying to protect you from hurt and pain.’ I think sex can cause a lot of pain. Sometimes people have sex because they don’t feel good enough. Because they lack self-worth. Women do that, and guys do that," he explained of his period of celibacy.

"I wanted to rededicate myself to God in that way because I really felt it was better for the condition of my soul. And I believe that God blessed me with Hailey as a result. There are perks. You get rewarded for good behavior," he added.

Being hitched hasn't made their relationship any easier, though.

"It’s been so hard for me to trust people. I’ve struggled with the feeling that people are using me or aren’t really there for me, and that writers are looking to get something out of me and then use it against me. One of the big things for me is trusting myself. I’ve made some bad decisions personally, and in relationships. Those mistakes have affected my confidence in my judgment. It’s been difficult for me even to trust Hailey," he admitted.

"The thing is, marriage is very hard. That is the sentence you should lead with. It’s really offing hard," the model agreed.

The blonde beauty let their romance blossom in an organic way, and denies she had Bieber fever well before they hooked up.

"I was never a superfan, of him or of anyone. It was never that crazed, screaming thing. I didn’t think about it in any kind of way except for the fact that he was cute. Everybody had a crush on him. But for the first few years we had a weird age gap. One day Justin walked into Hillsong and was like, ‘Hey, you got older.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, what’s up?’ Over time he became my best guy friend. I was running around with him as his homie, but we weren’t hanging out [romantically]," she detailed about their early days getting to know each other.

Their first breakup was messy to say the least.

"Negative things happened that we still need to talk about and work through. Fizzled would not be the right word—it was more like a very dramatic excommunication. There was a period where if I walked into a room, he would walk out," she revealed.

The "Sorry" crooner quickly realized that his bride was the calm in the storm he was looking for.

"I’m the emotionally unstable one. I struggle with finding peace. I just feel like I care so much and I want things to be so good and I want people to like me. Hailey’s very logical and structured, which I need. I’ve always wanted security—with my dad being gone sometimes when I was a kid, with being on the road. With the lifestyle I live, everything is so uncertain. I need one thing that’s certain. And that”—he picks up her hand—“is my baby boo," he gushed.

Switching gears, the Canadian singer discussed his secret battle with prescription pill abuse.

"I found myself doing things that I was so ashamed of, being super-promiscuous and stuff, and I think I used Xanax because I was so ashamed. My mom always said to treat women with respect. For me that was always in my head while I was doing it, so I could never enjoy it. Drugs put a screen between me and what I was doing. It got pretty dark. I think there were times when my security was coming in late at night to check my pulse and see if I was still breathing," he said.

Despite it all, they're in it for the long haul, and recognize that making this commitment isn't going to be without its hiccups.

"I’m not going to sit here and lie and say it’s all a magical fantasy. It’s always going to be hard. It’s a choice. You don’t feel it every single day. You don’t wake up every day saying, ‘I’m absolutely so in love and you are perfect.’ That’s not what being married is. But there’s something beautiful about it anyway—about wanting to fight for something, commit to building with someone. We’re really young, and that’s a scary aspect. We’re going to change a lot. But we’re committed to growing together and supporting each other in those changes. That’s how I look at it. At the end of the day, too, he’s my best friend. I never get sick of him," she noted.

Call us crazy, but we think these two just might last!

 

Justin Bieber Spends Time In New Jersey, While Hailey Baldwin's MIA ... What Gives?!

Posted on Wed Feb 6th, 2019 2:16pm PDT       By X17 Staff


Justin Bieber appears to be holed up in New Jersey with Hillsong pastor and BFF Carl Lentz near the preacher's Montclaire home. The Biebs has been spotted by fans working out, jogging and strolling in a local park, keeping it on the DL with a hoodie and workout shorts.

Question is ... where's Hailey?! She's set to appear on The Late Late Show With James Corden Wednesday night ... but isn't that pre-taped. Why isn't she out on the east coast with her man?

The pair has been spending a fair amount of time apart as of late -- perhaps testing their relationship since they raced into an engagement, spending every minute together for a few months and then maybe decided they needed to pull back a bit and make sure everything's clear in their minds before staging a wedding ceremony with friends and family.

Hailey's already been hooking up with her wedding planner, choosing rentals; not to mention house hunting! The couple started their search together and then Hailey continued solo, checking out houses from the Valley to Brentwood and everywhere in between.

Could these two be cooling off? Re-evaluating? Is Justin getting some spiritual counseling from Pastor Lentz? We're guessing YES to all of the above ...

 

EXCLUSIVE - Jennifer Garner Leasing $14M Estate While Her Dream Home Construction Is Completed

Posted on Wed Feb 6th, 2019 10:54am PDT       By X17 Staff


Movin' on up! And out! Jennifer Garner is ditching her Pacific Palisades home that she just sold to Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo for a cool $32 million and moving just a few blocks away -- closer to ex Ben Affleck, in fact -- for a few months while her new dream home is being finished.

The Peppermint actress has snatched up a $14 million traditional (see the gallery HERE) in the Riviera neighborhood, where she's expected to spend about six months while her Brentwood mansion finishes construction. We spotted her moving trucks unloading boxes into the house on Tuesday.

X17online broke the story of Jen's new dream home a month ago -- it's a downsized traditional (still around 9,000 square feet!) less than a mile from her current home that she used to share with Ben. But following all the work of performing the Super Bowl halftime, it seems Levine is ready to move in and get settled so Jen's gotta get out ... and her new house isn't ready! So she'll shack up in this 6-bedroom, 7.5-bath, 10,500 square-foot home while she waits. Hey, she may not want to move out!

The house has a stunning view of the Palisades and Rustic Canyon; it features a home theater, sauna and billiards room across three levels. Violet, Seraphina and Samuel will have fun here -- and they can walk to dad's house! There's a huge back yard with a pool and BBQ and the house is just minutes from Violet and Samuel's school. Morning drop-off will be a snap!

Meanwhile, Jen's Brentwood manse is getting close -- electrical is being completed and soon the finishes will start going in. So it'll be a lot of moving this year for Jen, but after all she's been through, we imagine this'll be nothing for her! And she's perhaps a step closer to inviting boyfriend John Miller to move in ... is that her plan for her custom Brentwood home? Will she and John SHARE a home in six months? Stay tuned!

 

Angelina Jolie Visits Rohingya Refugees In Bangladesh

Posted on Wed Feb 6th, 2019 10:08am PDT       By X17 Staff


Angelina Jolie isn't the type to stay home in her huge, private estate and bake cookies ... nope, she left the kids with a nanny and jetted to Bangladesh to visit Rohingya refugees at the world's largest refugee camp.

It was the UNHCR ambassador's first visit to Bangladesh where the Cox's Bazar camp houses the more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled the Myanmar military and have poured into Bangladesh since August 2017.

Jolie spoke with reporters and to the people in the camp, saying, "The people responsible for human rights violations must be held accountable for their actions. While UNHCR is ready to support efforts to improve conditions, there have been very little progress on the ground. The Rohingya cannot return to Myanmar at this time."

Drawing attention to the international community's inaction on this matter, Jolie said, "I want to say, I am humble and proud to stand with you today. You have every right to live in security, to be free and practice your religion and to co-exist with people of other faith and ethnicities. You have every right not to be stateless. And the way you have been treated shames us all."

 

Meghan Markle's Friends "Speak The Truth" About The Duchess

Posted on Wed Feb 6th, 2019 9:00am PDT       By X17 Staff


Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle's friends are coming to her aid ... but did she really need the help?

People magazine has published a cover story on the pregnant royal's challenges since marrying Prince Harry, telling the world she's the calm, cool, collected one amid all the noise surrounding an American's marriage to a British royal. They say Meghan's endured too much criticism and too many false, negative stories about her and now her pals are coming to Markle's defense.

The mag says Meghan's BFFs spoke to them because they want to "stand up against the global bullying we are seeing and speak the truth about our friend." People calls the source a "friend and former costar." Hilariously, the mag "anonymously" labels the pals as two women "who requested anonymity to protect the private relationships they hold dear." Well who were her two best female friends from Suits?! Duh!

The Suits costar went on to dish: "Meg has silently sat back and endured the lies and untruths ... We worry about what this is doing to her and the baby. It’s wrong to put anyone under this level of emotional trauma, let alone when they’re pregnant."

One of the friends told a story of spending time at Meghan in hers and Harry's cottage: "We had a couple of days together recently. Her husband was out of town on work. In the room she made up for me, there was a candle lit by the bed, slippers and a robe. We were the only two in the house. It was our time. She made the most lovely meals. She made tea every day. It was raining and muddy outside, so the dogs got all dirty, and she’s wiping them off with towels. How much she loves her animals, how much she loves her friends, how much she loves feeding you, taking care of you — none of that has changed.”

Regarding Meghan's relationship with her family -- which has been perhaps the biggest source of strain since she married Harry -- the source says of Meghan's father Thomas and her half-sister Samantha, "They have been made to appear as siblings who had this falling out, and that’s not the truth at all. They were not a part of her life.”

Now if only her family members would shut up and leave the Duchess alone!

 

Jennifer Lawrence Is Engaged To Cooke Maroney

Posted on Wed Feb 6th, 2019 8:05am PDT       By X17 Staff

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He put a ring on it! Jennifer Lawrence is engaged to boyfriend of seven months Cooke Maroney.

Lawrence and Maroney, an art dealer, started dating last summer when their relationship was outed as they were spotted in Paris and New York, holding hands and looking lovey dovey. The pair have been quite about their romance, but a source told Us Weekly last month, "They definitely appear to be in it for the long haul," noting the couple had moved in together. "Cooke plays very coy when speaking about her to his friends and colleagues. He is clearly smitten about her," the source said.

Lawrence was last linked the director Darren Aronofsky, to whom she seemed to be engaged at one point during their year-long relationship that ended in 2017.

 

Report: Ben Affleck And Lindsay Shookus Are Seeing Each Other Again!

Posted on Tue Feb 5th, 2019 12:03pm PDT       By X17 Staff


Ben Affleck might actually be making a good decision this time! Not sure we can say the same for Lindsay Shookus ...

The former couple are back ON, according to a Us Weeklynew report. "They’ve been talking and have seen each other again. Ben is in a much better place health-wise and is a lot happier," the source tells the mag. And apparently it was Lindsay who reached out the Ben!

Affleck, 46, and the SNL producer Shookus, 38, broke up in August, right before Ben headed to rehab.

Lindsay even packed up and moved out to LA briefly but returned to New York full time when things didn't work out. In fact, Us Weekly's source says, "They will keep talking and see what happens. It wouldn’t be surprising if they got back together, but with the distance and living on different coasts it’s difficult."

We'll see, indeed! Maybe that's why Ben had a spring in his step this morning ...

 

Kendall Jenner Is Bangin'!

Posted on Tue Feb 5th, 2019 8:15am PDT       By X17 Staff

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Bangin!

Supermodel Kendall Jenner posted this pic and a couple videos Monday night ... but are the bang real?! She captioned the set: "yes, no, maybe so?" which leads us to believe the fringe is clip-in. What would YOU say -- yay or nay?

 

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