Hailey Bieber Opens up for the First Time About Her ‘Scary' Childbirth Experience

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20-05-2025

Nearly 9 months after Jack Blues Bieber was born, his mom Hailey Bieber is opening up about her harrowing childbirth experience. She opened up about her 'scary' labor and postpartum period for the first time in an emotional new interview that will remind you just how strong moms really are.
In the Summer 2025 cover interview for Vogue, the Rhode Skin founder shared the birth complication she had that led to her not being able to hold her baby boy for hours after he was born.
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'Giving birth was the hardest thing I've ever done,' she told the outlet. During pregnancy, Hailey says she was 'doing everything' to help prepare for childbirth, including breathing exercises, acupuncture, yoga, pelvic-floor therapy, workouts, walking, and weight training. 'I felt stronger physically than I ever had before,' she said.
Still, things don't always go according to plan, even for the most well-prepared mamas. Hailey says she had to be induced after she began leaking amniotic fluid at 39 weeks, with her doctors using Pitocin to start contractions and a Foley balloon to encourage the cervix to dilate.
Hailey's opinion on the 18-hour labor that happened next? 'That shit was so crazy. That was not fun,' she said. 'They broke my water. I went into labor and I labored for a few hours. No epidural, nothing.'
Her baby was born healthy — but Hailey wasn't in the clear yet. She was bleeding profusely due to postpartum hemorrhage, a serious condition that can lead to hypovolemic shock, organ failure, and death. According to the March of Dimes, heavy bleeding after birth happens in about 1 to 5 in 100 women, and can occur anytime between the first day of giving birth to up to 12 weeks after.
Now, Hailey recalls the experience as 'a little bit scary.' She went on, 'I trust my doctor with my life. And so I had peace that I knew she would never let anything happen to me. But I was bleeding really badly, and people die, and the thought crosses your mind.'
After different medications did not stop Hailey's bleeding, her baby was taken away as a Jada device was inserted to help provoke uterine contractions. The uncomfortable and painful treatment lasted for hours.
'You start to get a little freaked out,' Hailey said. 'I wanted to hold my baby. I wanted to be with him.'
That sounds so hard, and our hearts go out to her. Hailey shared that her husband Justin Bieber was also supportive, suddenly seeing her and thinking, 'My woman is a god. A superhero. I could never.'
'I'm walking in the days I always dreamed of,' she added. Although it isn't all smooth sailing. Hailey struggled with postpartum body dysmorphia, 'self-hatred,' a rollercoaster of hormones, and cruel mom-shamers online.
'Every day I have to talk to myself, like, Hailey, you had a baby,' she told the outlet. 'You grew a human. You birthed a human. It's okay. Give yourself grace. Give yourself time.' Yes!
She also touched on 'bouncing back,' which Hailey thinks, 'back where?' and, same. As a mom of three, I take issue with 'bouncing back' as well, because there is no going back to how you were before.
'My hips are wider, my boobs are actually bigger than they were before. They did not go back. And great, I'll take it, but it's not the same body that it was before,' she told the outlet. 'You're not the same person that you were before. You change head to toe. And I think there was a minute where I kept really hyper-​fixating on getting back to what I was. And then I had to go through that acceptance of, I'm not going back. So it's really about how do I want to move forward? Who do I want to be?'
Right now, she's focusing on being a strong, present, happy mom with her little family of three. '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,' Hailey said. '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.'
On the other hand, motherhood has allowed her to feel more vulnerable and she shares those hard moments with her friends. 'I cry a lot more than I did before,' she said about motherhood, adding that she is working hard 'to feel what I'm feeling and be not okay, and be able to just really express that and feel safe with my friends to just be like, 'I'm losing it today.''
Hailey has done her best to protect her son's privacy since he was born last August, but she and Justin have shared snippets of their little boy online. Like last month, when Hailey shared a cheeky 'this Easter vs. last Easter' post comparing her pregnant self with her holding her big 7-month-old in a precious yellow jumpsuit with a bunny on the front.
It's not easy to process a traumatic childbirth and postpartum experience, internet haters, and the invasiveness of fame, but Hailey is doing it — and it's an inspiration. She's doing her best, and that's all any of us can hope for.
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