There are several gossip sub-genres which I don’t really care for. I’m not a big fan of “Ring Watch,” as in the gossip-examination of when celebrities or actors are playing on-and-off games with their wedding bands or engagement rings. I’m also not a huge fan of “Instagram-Follower Watch.” As in, people who randomly or compulsively follow and unfollow people close to them, and those unfollows are spun into legitimate gossip stories. So here we are – Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin are married and they welcomed their son last year. They are first-time parents, Hailey has a thriving career and Justin has a lot of health issues and he doesn’t seem super-motivated to restart his music career. Well, in recent days, Justin has done a bizarre IG Live, then he deactivated his account, then he reactivated it. Then people noticed that Hailey unfollowed her husband’s IG, then Hailey denied unfollowing him on purpose. Thankfully, Vulture put together a somewhat comprehensive timeline for 2025:
January 21, 2025: Justin Bieber unfollows Hailey Bieber on Instagram, then promptly refollows her that same morning. “Someone went on my account and unfollowed my wife,” he claims on his Instagram Story.
February 15, 2025: Hailey Bieber shares a belated Valentine’s Day photo dump on her Instagram, obviously featuring her husband. This is still her most recent grid post with her husband.
February 20, 2025: The couple attends an event for Hailey’s skin-care brand, Rhode. A relatively mundane video of Justin talking to Refinery29 editor Sara Tan goes viral because, according to one commenter, “He’s got the itchy-itchies and geeked smile …” Whatever that means.
February 21, 2025: An unconfirmed source tells “Page Six” that “Justin is going through a hard time and Hailey is doing her best to be there for him, but there’s only so much she can do.”
March 13, 2025: Justin posts a poem about his imposter syndrome on his Instagram Story. “People told me my whole life ‘wow Justin u deserve that’ and I personally have always felt unworthy,” he wrote. “If you feel sneaky welcome to the club / I definitely feel unequipped and unqualified most days.” Cosmopolitan theorizes the next day that he was actually teasing new music.
March 19, 2025: Sources claim Hailey Bieber is pursuing her legal options when it comes to a viral “seven part” TikTok series alleging she stalked her now-husband and his ex Selena Gomez. The original video “Hailey Bieber’s Dangerous Decade-Long Obsession” was uploaded to YouTube in August 2024.
March 22, 2025: In a posting spree, Justin shares a series of three strange photos, including one of what appear to be shipping containers, on Instagram, alongside the caption “I got anger issues too, but I wanna grow and not react so much smh 🤦♂️.” The same day, he posts a video of some people, including himself, jamming out in a living room. It is captioned “I think I hate myself sometimes when I feel myself start to become inauthentic / Then I remember we’re all being made to think we’re not enough but I still hate when I change myself to please people.”
March 29, 2025: Justin Bieber goes live on Instagram, shirtless, holding the camera extremely close to his face and playing snippets of what fans theorize are new demos. Shortly after the live ends, he deactivates, then reactivates, his account.
March 30, 2025: Fans notice that Hailey is no longer following Justin on her Instagram account.
March 31, 2025: Two days after the brief deactivation, Hailey refollows Justin and comments on a TikTok video about the unfollowing. “It’s a glitch,” she writes, per “Page Six.” “Didn’t unfollow him. Hope this helps!” Justin, for his part, posts a collage of Hailey giving the middle finger to the camera on his Instagram Story. Real.
My take is that all of these people have too much money and too little sense. I’m talking about Hailey, Justin, their fans and their detractors. Enough! As for the IG-follow/unfollow mess… I actually believe Hailey probably unfollowed him when he was on his IG Live. She was probably like “ugh, I don’t want to hear this, I hear it all the time in my own home.” Then she refollowed him soon after. But all of it is just so juvenile – again, they live together, they’re married, they have a whole baby together. They do not live their entire lives on social media, leaving breadcrumbs for fans.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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- Los Angeles, CA – Justin and Hailey Bieber were seen leaving church together in Los Angeles, looking composed and united. The couple, who have faced media attention in recent months, appeared to share a quiet moment as they exited the service. Pictured: Hailey Bieber, Justin Bieber BACKGRID USA 26 MARCH 2025 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Los Angeles, CA – Justin and Hailey Bieber were seen leaving church together in Los Angeles, looking composed and united. The couple, who have faced media attention in recent months, appeared to share a quiet moment as they exited the service. Pictured: Hailey Bieber, Justin Bieber BACKGRID USA 26 MARCH 2025 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Los Angeles, CA – Justin and Hailey Bieber were seen leaving church together in Los Angeles, looking composed and united. The couple, who have faced media attention in recent months, appeared to share a quiet moment as they exited the service. Pictured: Justin Bieber, Hailey Bieber BACKGRID USA 26 MARCH 2025 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
Follow unfollow follow unfollow. My head hurts.
Vulture isn’t really doing the IG live justice with that description. Justin was clearly very under the influence while live. It was actually very sad and disturbing.
Pinpoint pupils…my guess is opiates. Although in that other video that was recently making the rounds he was grinding his teeth and seemed to struggle to stand straight so my guess is he’s on a mix of shit.
I feel really bad for him TBH. Some people are speculating that this is related to the Diddy shit–maybe–but he has a fucking kid now. He needs to get clean and get therapy for the sake of that child.
Hailey looks really good in those photos.
That’s all I’ve got here.
Yikes at this coverage. Hailey’s career is “thriving”? Where?
Her skincare line and makeup are doing really well.
She is making great use of the money he/they are making. I’m not being snarky; she really looks fantastic. God knows what’s happening with him. I do see them as trivial, self-absorbed people, especially her, and I do think some of his trauma is Diddy-related. Wonder if he ever wishes he was never discovered.