Hailey Bieber opens up about ‘possessive’ fans
‘It’s so dumb’
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Your support makes all the difference.Hailey Bieber has opened up about how she feels about the attention she receives from fans in a candid new interview, describing them as “possessive”.
Speaking to Cosmopolitan, the 22-year-old model explained she struggles with the way people obsess over the private details of her life, particularly her marriage to global pop star Justin Bieber.
“The problem too is kids become possessive over people and feel like if they think they’re hurt, they feel hurt for them and they’re hurt too, or whatever it is,” she told the publication.
“They just think they know these people who are famous because their life is so exposed. And that’s what gets me, I think, the most frustrated.”
Bieber went on to argue her social media presence – she has 18.3 million followers on Instagram – is not a complete representation of who she is in real life.
“I’m like, you actually don’t know me. You don’t know him. You don’t know her, you don’t know these people for real.
“What’s really weird to me is they create scenarios in their head of what they think is happening or what they think should happen, and I’m just like, ‘This is just so dumb. It’s so dumb.’”
It’s not the first time the American model has been touched on the difficulties of being married to someone as famous as Justin Bieber.
The couple were interviewed about their relationship for American Vogue in February.
“I’m not going to sit here and lie and say it’s all a magical fantasy,” Bieber told the magazine.
“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 she added that she is very much in love with Justin and has been for a long time.
“At the end of the day, too, he’s my best friend. I never get sick of him.”
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