Justin Bieber sparks fresh concern over latest photos with baby son Jack

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Justin Bieber has sparked backlash from fans after sharing fresh pictures with his baby son Jack Blues.
The 31-year-old singer took to Instagram on Thursday night to post a carousel of photos showing him hanging out with his son and friends during a trip to the mountains.
The group appeared to be enjoying time both inside and outside a cabin, and making use of a shade porch area and golf buggy.
Justin's sweet snaps with 10-month-old son Jack, whom he shares with beauty entrepreneur wife Hailey, 28, included a pic of the infant riding happily on his dad's shoulders.
In another, Justin could be seen sitting on an outdoor couch, gazing down at his son lying next to him.
But the previous picture showed him smoking a roll-up with a friend, in the exact same spot, wearing the same pair of blue athletic shorts – although Jack was not pictured in that image.
Nevertheless, many fans left concerned remarks about the Peaches chart-topper's behaviour around his son in the comment section, quickly leading to a fierce debate.
'Don't smoke in front your kid,' wrote @chemzeeddine7 next to the music artist's photos, while Brooke Gentili added: 'Dude there is no way you have that baby around that smoke… be better like we know you can be.'
'Doing drugs with the baby around?' asked @ibelieve77, while Anne MacNicol shared her view that publicising his use of 'substances with your child present is not cool or interesting'.
However, several people jumped to the dad's defence over fan assumptions with @livelaughlov3life pointing out: 'Guys, the picture with the baby you can see Jacks feet on his leg. The picture of him smoking the baby is clearly NOT there.'
'You don't see that man smoking with his baby in NONE OF THESE PICS!' insisted @thahustlher, while @isabellamrrns added: 'He's not, it's different moments clearly.'
But Jocelyn West counter-argued: 'Still the same couch. Everyone knows that smell and chemicals stick to the couch.'
In other snaps, Justin was seen lying on the path outside their cabin, catching some sun in denim shorts, as well as laughing with his friends indoors and posing on the golf buggy's roof with pals, playfully holding his middle finger up to the camera.
He had added in the caption of his upload for his 294million followers: 'Gonna be a good summer.'
It's not the first time the dad-of-one has concerned fans with photos of his son, after he shared a picture of himself embracing Jack while the tot was nude – although he used an emoji to cover the boy's face and his hands were shielding his bum from the camera.
But followers still urged Justin to take down the snap, given the dangers of posting this sort of image online and the sheer magnitude of his follower count.
Wife Hailey, who earlier this week sold her Rhode Beauty brand for a massive $1billion, was nowhere to be seen in his latest pictures.
Instead she was pictured on Wednesday night attending Audemars Piguet's special evening with Vogue in Los Angeles, to celebrate the Swiss luxury watch company's 150th anniversary.
This comes after Hailey was recently pictured looking glum as she left another party solo, leading to speculation that her marriage to Justin could be on shaky ground after a spate of incidents.
Justin recently came under fire after commenting on a post by 17-year-old Barbie actress Ariana Greenblatt – a move described as 'creepy' by some, and 'disrespectful' to his wife.
And this came days after he admitted to telling Hailey that she'd never be a Vogue cover model, before describing himself as 'so mean' in a since-deleted post on Instagram.
Speaking about her recent Vogue cover shoot as she achieved the impressive feat, he originally wrote: 'Yo this reminds me when Hailey and I got into a huge fight. I told hails that she would never be on the cover of vogue, Yikes I know, so mean.
'For some reason because I felt so disrespected. I thought I gotta get even…'
He continued: 'I think as we mature we realise that we're not helping anything by getting even. We're honestly just prolonging what we really want which is intimacy and connection [sic].'
Justin concluded: 'So baby u already know but forgive me for saying u wouldn't get a Vogue cover cuz clearly I was sadly mistaken [sic].'
The post was duly then scrubbed following backlash from his fans, many of whom had questioned why he was sharing such information so freely.
Addressing rumours of marital strife during that interview with Vogue, Hailey said: 'It's not real.' More Trending
'And that's the thing: I have a real life. My real life is that I get to wake up to my beautiful family and my son and my friends and I have people that know me and love me and I love them.
She continued: 'Being postpartum is the most sensitive time I've ever gone through in my life, and learning a new version of myself is very difficult. And to be doing that all the while going on the internet every day and people being like, 'They're getting divorced' and 'they're this' and 'they're not happy.' It is such a mindf**k. I cannot even begin to explain it. It's a crazy life to live.'
Metro has contacted Justin Bieber's reps for comment.
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