Hailey Baldwin says she ‘missed out on interacting with boys’ because she was homeschooled

• Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin) spoke about being homeschooled in a YouTube chat with Dixie D’Amelio.
• She said that because she didn’t go to a regular school, she “missed out on interacting with boys.”
• Despite not socializing much with boys as a teen, Hailey married Justin Bieber when she was 21.
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Even though she’s now married to former teen heartthrob and pop megastar Justin Bieber, Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin) says she spent barely any time around boys as a teenager.

In a chat with TikTok star Dixie D’Amelio, posted on D’Amelio’s YouTube page on Sunday, the 24-year-old model shared that being homeschooled during high school may have been responsible for her lack of social interaction with boys her age at the time.

“I missed out on interacting with boys,” Hailey said. “I think I’m okay now, but … when you’re in high school, it’s boys and girls. It’s a different environment.”

During her conversation with D’Amelio, Hailey said she went to a regular brick-and-mortar school in fifth, sixth, and seventh grades before switching to home school for eighth grade and all of high school.

Hailey told D’Amelio that her parents, Stephen and Kennya Baldwin, gave her the option of either going to a Christian school or be homeschooled. They were opposed to her going to a public school, Hailey said.

“I actually wanted to go to a performing arts school in New York City and they didn’t want me to do that either. So, I just chose to stay home,” Hailey added.

However, she said that she didn’t feel particularly socially isolated despite being homeschooled because she went to ballet classes almost every day for over a decade.

“All of my socializing and my friend interactions, for the most part, were there so I don’t feel like I really missed out,” Hailey said.

The model went on to marry pop megastar Justin Bieber when she was 21

Hailey and Justin briefly dated in 2016 and broke up for several years before reuniting in 2018 and getting married in a courthouse in New York City later that year.

They had a bigger wedding ceremony in South Carolina the following year, surrounded by celebrities like Jaden Smith, Usher, and Kendall and Kylie Jenner.

In an intervew for Elle’s March cover story, Hailey said that while she got married to the 27-year-old singer “insanely young” and that it “sounds almost ridiculous when you say it out loud,” getting married so soon made sense for the couple.

“We’ve seen a lot for our age. We have both lived enough life to know that’s what we wanted,” she said.