Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin) doesn’t want your bad energy in her new decade.
To mark the beginning of 2020, the model took to Instagram to write a lengthy, honest post about the impact trolls can have on her mental health, saying that she can pretend the negativity doesn’t bother her but that it, of course, hurts to be “compared to other human beings every single day” and “to feel like you don’t measure up to a certain standard.”
Sharing a photo of the ocean, Bieber started her post by writing, “I would say my most favorite part of existing is human connection. I absolutely love connecting with other people, I love finding common interests between me and others, hearing people’s story, I love laughing with others, and I love crying with others. I feel so very very deeply.”
“My heart explodes with happiness when my friends and family are happy and my heart feels crushed when they are hurting and sad,” she continued. “The reason I say all of this is: because I love to connect, I do my best to expose my heart which means I love freely and I empathize deeply, and because of that I also hurt very easily when I feel like people don’t see my heart and see me for who I am.”
Bieber then explained that “the reason I’m even sharing this, is because Instagram, Twitter etc is SUCH a breeding ground for cruelty towards each other, and because people don’t take the time to connect with each other on an honest level before they resort to hatred, it starts to damage what could be really beautiful human interaction and connection.”
She added that while she could “sit here all day and say the hate doesn’t bug me,” of course it does.
“NEWS FLASH: it hurts to be torn apart on the internet!!!” she wrote. “It hurts to be compared to other human beings every single day, it hurts for people to jump to conclusions and make assumptions. It hurts to be called names, and to feel like you don’t measure up to a certain standard.. the list goes on and on.”
She wrapped up her statement by saying the subject often weighs on her heart, adding that “it’s important to be honest about how these things affect us mentally and emotionally.”
Bieber’s post comes months after her husband, Justin, opened up about his struggles with depression and drug use, after skyrocketing to fame at such a young age.
