Hailey Bieber is pregnant, which I keep forgetting because she hasn’t been in-our-faces about her pregnancy. Hailey and Justin Bieber waited years after their wedding to start their family, which makes me happy – it feels like they have a solid base in which to bring a child. Hailey did her first big “pregnancy photoshoot” with W Magazine, and I actually love all of these photos. They have an old-school vibe and Hailey looks great and healthy. She chatted about not wanting to hear people’s scary-pregnancy stories, her successful Rhode beauty line and more with W:

She doesn’t want to read your stories: “The Internet is a scary place for a pregnant woman…You see so many stories—traumatic birth stories, traumatic experiences—and I know that that’s very real. But I don’t want to scare myself.”

Morning sickness & food: “I don’t know why they call [morning sickness] that because it lasts all day long; we need to change the name,” she says, with a vexed smile—Bieber has arrived at the homestretch feeling good, thanks to strength-training workouts and a high-protein diet consisting of “lots of eggs, chicken, and steak.” Her publicist has brought in several grocery bags of prepared foods from Erewhon and a selection of water and kombucha. But Bieber’s primary food directive during pregnancy? “I just listen to whatever the baby wants. If the baby wants pizza one day, we’re doing pizza.”

Her one extravagance during pregnancy: hiring a private chef to prepare dinners at home, something that she readily, almost sheepishly, acknowledges is a “huge luxury.”

The new Lorraine Schwartz–designed diamond ring: She’s quick to dispel tabloid rumors that the new ring is upwards of ten carats larger than her old engagement ring. “Actually, this is only one carat bigger. It’s just elongated. They’re going off with their own stories about it. I don’t like it. I didn’t want to talk about it.”

She carried small in the first six months: “I was honestly able to keep it quiet because I stayed small for a long time. I didn’t have a belly, really, until I was six months pregnant, which was when I announced it. I was able to wear big jackets and stuff. I probably could have hid it until the end. But I didn’t enjoy the stress of not being able to enjoy my pregnancy outwardly. I felt like I was hiding this big secret, and it didn’t feel good. I wanted the freedom to go out and live my life.”

She’s in therapy to deal with all of the sh-t that gets thrown at her: “People have made me feel so bad about my relationship since day one. ‘Oh, they’re falling apart. They hate each other. They’re getting divorced.’ It’s like people don’t want to believe that we’re happy. I used to try to act like it hurts less and less. I’ve tried to think that you get used to it at a certain point, that this is what’s going to be said and this is how people are going to be. But I realize that it doesn’t actually ever hurt any less.”

Getting married at 21: “I wouldn’t tell a 21-year-old in the chair right there, ‘I think you should get married.’ It’s really each individual’s experience.”

Enjoying the pre-baby days with Justin: “In the beginning [of pregnancy], it was super emotional for me. Like, ‘I love this human so much. How can I possibly bring someone else into this?’ I’m trying to soak in these days of it being Justin and me, just the two of us.”

Launching Rhode: “I knew that I wasn’t going to stay in the modeling world forever, and I always wanted to parlay that into something else. For a while, I wasn’t sure what that was, until I started Rhode, and then I was like, ‘Oh, this is what I’m meant to be doing. This is where I feel confident and authentic.’  I knew it was a really oversaturated space and everyone was tired of celebrity brands. So I wanted to come in with a different point of view. The most important thing is the efficacy of the product, what’s inside the bottle. But not only that, I wanted it to feel chic. I wanted it to feel cool.”

Skincare doesn’t have to be so complicated: “I looked at it from my point of view of style. Like, what are the essential items you need to have in your closet? The perfect leather jacket, the perfect pair of jeans, the perfect white tee. So it came down to: What are your must-haves that make up your skincare wardrobe? You don’t need to have a nine-step routine to have great skin. It doesn’t have to be complicated.”

[From W Magazine]

A private chef is a huge luxury but if I had Bieber money, I would do the same! That’s one luxury I covet, the ability to have a private chef. I imagine it decreases the stress during pregnancy too, to have someone listening to your cravings and making sure you get everything you need. As for the Rhode stuff… W Magazine says that Rhode is already a big success, which just shows that all of the stuff about an oversaturated beauty/skin market in celebrity-brands is kind of bullsh-t. These ladies keep launching and people keep buying.

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