When Justin Bieber proposed to girlfriend Hailey Bieber in July 2018, she said the then-24-year-old singer was “at a stage of his life where he could make decisions like, ‘I’m done with girls, and I’m done with fooling around, and I’m done with partying.”
Even before they reconnected and knew they wanted to be together, Hailey said they independently wanted to get married at a young age.
“We were friends first for a really long time before there was anything romantic. But we always knew that we were aligned on what we wanted in our future. We had talked about wanting to be married young and having a family young and building a life. Even before we knew we wanted to be with each other,” she said.
According to Hailey, her desire to settle down early is a result of her parents’ story. She said that Stephen Baldwin and Kennya Baldwin met on a bus in New York City when they were 19, fell in love, and got married four years later.
“When I was young and I would hear the story of how they met, it sounded like the most romantic thing in the world. You fantasize about having the same thing. I do think it influenced me to want to be married young,” she said.
Hailey Bieber spoke about getting married “insanely young” in an interview with Elle.
The model said she had “lived enough life” by 21 to know she wanted to marry Justin Bieber.
She added that they both wanted to settle down young before deciding to be together.
Hailey Bieber recently reflected on her decision to marry Justin Bieber when she was 21 years old.
“I was married when I was 21, two months before I turned 22, which is insanely young,” she said in Elle’s cover story , published Thursday, adding that it “sounds almost ridiculous when you say it out loud.”
She continued, “Although I do think for somebody like me and somebody like Justin, [it’s different]. We’ve seen a lot for our age. We have both lived enough life to know that’s what we wanted.”
The model, now 24, briefly dated the 27-year-old singer in 2016 before they parted ways. They rekindled in 2018 and got married in a New York City courthouse months later. A year later, they had a larger wedding celebration in South Carolina.
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