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Hailey Baldwin Bieber is opening up about her marriage toJustin Bieber.
“My favorite thing about being married is honestly the companionship I feel we have,” Hailey confessed to Justin, 28. “Genuinely, you are my best friend in the entire world. There’s nobody I would rather spend more time with or do anything with.”
The couple, who celebrated their four-year wedding anniversary in September, tied the knot at a New York City courthouse just two months after theirengagementin July 2018. The wedding ceremony was held in secret at the time, and a source close to the couple confirmed toPEOPLEthat “they went ahead and did it without listening to anyone.”
Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Bieber.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty
The pair, along with pals Justine Skye and Fai Khadra, recentlytraveled to Hawaiifor Kelia Moniz’s 30th birthday party. The professional surfer is one of Hailey’s closest friends.
In a 2022 interview withHarper’s Bazaar, Hailey opened up about her and her husband’s health struggles — detailing how she’dsuffered a “mini-stroke"and underwent surgery; while Justin was diagnosed withRamsay hunt syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that caused paralysis on the right side of his face.
Hailey and Justin Bieber.Hailey Bieber Instagram
“He’s still the person that I wanna be rushing back to,” Hailey said in the interview, which marked the fourth anniversary since she got engaged to the hit singer. “I might fly somewhere and go do a job, but I can’t wait to come back and hang out.”
The style icon also acknowledged that marriage is not always easy and requires mutual effort to thrive. “At the end of the day, like, he’s my best friend, but it still does take a lot of work to make it work.”
“I know eventually, when kids come in the picture, that’s going to be a whole other season of navigating how to make that work,” she added.
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Hailey shared the same sentiments withWSJ Magazinein February of 2022. “I think ideally in the next couple of years we would try,” the model told the outlet. “But there’s a reason they call it ‘try,’ right? You don’t know how long that process is ever going to take.”
In a podcast episode ofIn Good Faith with Chelsea & Judah Smith, Hailey said, “We always had so many conversations about, ‘What were our goals? Where did we want to end up at a certain age?’ "
“We always talked about wanting to be married and be young, and have a young family, and have kids young.”
source: people.com
