My relationship with Jesus is only growing ‘deeper and deeper and deeper’-Justin Bieber’s wife; Hailey

Hailey Bieber opened up about her faith
and marriage to pop star Justin Bieber in
an intimate sit-down interview with the
Hillsong Channel on YouTube.
Asked what she had learnt from being
married, Hailey – a model and the daughter
of Christian actor Stephen Baldwin – said it
was important to compromise and let go of
her single life.
“If you don’t want to compromise, don’t get
married,” she said.
“If you’re not willing to step into a new life
with someone – and you have to kind of
say goodbye to some things from your
past, and say goodbye to some old
conveniences and luxuries and friends and
people and time and space and energy –
don’t get married.”
The Hillsong regular said that marriage had
forced her to grow up and grow out of
some things.
“You can’t have the best of both worlds,”
she continued.
“You can’t still be living your single life and
be married….I stepped out of my life as a
single woman and stepped into my life as
a married woman and that’s a whole new
world in comparison to what it was before –
and I would not change anything.”
She admitted marrying Justin had come
with some challenges on a personal level,
especially the pressure of being compared
to other women and the criticism the pair
faced for being together and getting
married.
But she said Justin had helped her through
those challenges by affirming her and
pointing her back to her faith.
“He is constantly reminding me, like, who
does Jesus say you are? What does the
Bible say? What are we like? Where are we
finding our truth?” she said.
Recalling her star-studded wedding in
South Carolina last September, she said it
had been the best day of her life in spite of
a few mishaps, like one of the chapel pews
breaking in the middle of her ceremony.
Asked about her favourite moment from
the day, she said that taking communion
together with Justin in front of their guests
had been “really powerful and significant”.
In the wideranging interview, Hailey opened
up about some of her struggles with
feelings of guilt and shame in the first “six
or seven months” of her marriage, some of
which she said were the result of her
Christian upbringing.
“I carried a lot of guilt,” she said.
“I think where it stems from for me is that I
was raised in a Christian household. I grew
up with Christian parents, and I just think I
put extra guilt on myself to be this, like,
good girl and fill this role of being this
goody two shoes good girl.
“And I just think what I learned leading up
to being married is that it’s just not
realistic.”
She said, though, that she had learnt that
guilt, shame and past regrets do not need
to define a person, and that her faith in
Christ is molding her into a better person.
“We’re constantly evolving, especially in
Jesus,” she said.
“Like, our relationship with Christ is always
going deeper and deeper and deeper and
where I was before I was a wife and who I
was before I was a wife is not who I am
now.”