

“I don’t care what anyone says but Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez together is the definition of a teenage dream! #word,” Hailey writes in a May 2011 tweet that she later deletes. Throughout this year and into the next, Hailey tweets that she’s “100% #TeamJelena” and remarks upon how “hot” Selena is. Proof in these pictures : /aqS6yvcsKM- lola March 7, 2023 But for the first few years, we had a weird age gap.”įebruary 11, 2011: God said, “Let there be Jelena.” After three years of a “big sister” relationship, 17-year-old Justin Bieber and 19-year-old Selena Gomez make their red-carpet debut at the Vanity Fair Oscars party. I didn’t think about it in any kind of way except for the fact that he was cute. “It was never that crazed, screaming thing. “I was never a superfan of him or of anyone,” she will tell Vogue in 2019. We think you guys would be good friends.’”įebruary 2, 2011: Hailey and her dad meet Justin Bieber on the red carpet for Never Say Never. They have similar values and believe the same things. Since she was raised Christian, it was like, ‘Oh, I want to introduce you to Justin and his mom. “Looking back now, I’m like, It was definitely an arranged marriage. “I’m pretty sure she didn’t want to be there,” Justin will recall on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2020. Below, I break down how we got here and debunk the rumors - resurfaced interview clips, the “g” tattoo, the Jenner sisters, the stalker allegations, and Hillsong Church’s involvement - surrounding the least interesting thing Hailey and Selena have in common: the swoopy-haired man who bounced between them.Ģ009: Hailey Baldwin meets Justin Bieber backstage at the Today show, accompanied by her dad, Stephen Baldwin. “And I need to know how.” Selena and Hailey’s alleged rivalry over Justin goes way further back than the recent eyebrow drama. “She did that,” Dana Rose, another OG Belieber, says in a 2020 video, referring to Hailey. Bieber went from subtweets to “till death do us part” in the same eight years Jelena was publicly on and off. But as Nicki Minaj warned in 2012, “ Gotta keep an eye out for Selener.”īored and at home after his Justice World Tour was canceled and fed by the nth iteration of a feud between Hailey and Selena, the internet’s stans are obsessed with reexamining how Mrs.

With her connections, she had a head start in achieving a life one read about only in fan fiction - becoming Mrs. Back when Bieber Fever was spreading at an alarming rate, Hailey Baldwin, an OG Belieber, was, yes, the daughter of an actor and the niece of an even more famous one, but really she was a meet-and-greet-tier Twitter stan and mutuals with some of the most well-known fan accounts at the time. Dreams like mine were only slightly crushed when he started dating Disney Channel actress and pop star in the making Selena Gomez in 2011 Jelena did so much for the power-couple phenomenon, especially for Gen Z and younger millennials. In 2011, being a Belieber meant that, whether you were reading the fanfic or not, you’d fantasized about what it would be like to be with Canadian pop star Justin Drew Bieber, how you could wrap your life around his without the immediate disqualification of being first and foremost, a fan. He kisses me, security whisks me to his tour bus, and we begin our love story … in my 14-year-old dreams. Onstage, a sagging pair of pants moonwalks over to a chair, looks into the crowd, drowning in purple lights, and points at me to join him and be his “One Less Lonely Girl.” But unlike the countless other formerly lonely girls pulled onstage, this time is different. I’m on the floor at the stadium formerly known as the Staples Center, eyes alight with awe.
