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 thatâ€â€”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!
