Jack Blues Bieber, 16 months old and freshly woken from his nap, apparently has one thing on his mind. Not milk. Not cartoons. Basketball.
'He says 'basketball' all the time,' Hailey Bieber laughed, recalling her morning with her son as she sat on Jake Shane'sTherapusspodcast. 'I went to get him up from his nap today, and he was like "basketball". It's insane. So funny.'
It's a tiny, throwaway detail about a toddler most of the world will never meet. But in the rare glimpses Hailey and Justin Bieber do allow into their home life, it feels oddly intimate, evidence that the former teen idol and the model who grew up in a famous family arenow deep in the trenches of very ordinary parenthood.
Appearing on the season three premiere ofTherapuss, now streaming on Netflix, 29-year-old Hailey was more relaxed and unguarded than the heavily scrutinised public persona often suggests. She spoke with disarming affection about Jack Blues, born in August 2024, describing a baby who is already loudly staking his claim on the world.
Jack, she explained, hasn't just found his favourite word, he has also just started to say 'please.'
For months, Hailey said, he communicated the word using sign language. 'He knew how to sign 'please' for a really long time,' she explained, demonstrating the American Sign Language gesture on camera.
Now the sign has become a sound, and there's a clear sense she finds the shift quietly magical.
Jack's arrival last year was framed, even then, in almost reverential terms. Shortly after his birth, a source close to the couple toldPeople: 'They're both overjoyed. The baby is such a miracle... The pregnancy was something that they very much wished and prayed for.'
OnTherapuss, Hailey confirmed what many suspected: she has always seen motherhood as part of her story. 'I always knew I wanted kids, I always wanted to be a mom,' she said. 'And then when it happens, you never know what to expect and you don't know what it's going to be like. And it honestly, it's so much fun.'
There's a hint of surprise in how she says it, as if the fun part still feels like a pleasant shock.
Source: International Business Times UK
