Justin Bieber's Quiet Year: Hailey Bieber Opens Up on Postpartum Health, and the Lentz Saga Resurfaces

A Couple's Private Life, Two Very Public Stories

Justin Bieber has spent much of the past year focused on home. He and Hailey welcomed their son, Jack Blues Bieber, in August 2024, and the couple's life since then has revolved around new parenthood far more than any stage. That relative quiet, however, has been broken by two unrelated stories arriving in the same news cycle: Hailey's candid new interview about her postpartum health, and the publication of a book by Carl Lentz, the former Hillsong pastor who was once among Justin's closest spiritual confidants.

Neither story is, strictly speaking, a music story. But both offer a window into the personal world that has shaped Bieber's work across his career — from the faith-inflected themes of Purpose to the more introspective, stripped-back material he has released in recent years.

Hailey Bieber on PMDD: 'Not a Lot of Conversation or Research'

Speaking to Women's Wear Daily, Hailey Bieber opened up about experiencing premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD, after giving birth to Jack. PMDD is similar to PMS but considerably more severe; according to the Office on Women's Health, it can cause intense irritability, depression or anxiety in the up to two weeks before a period begins, and affects roughly 5 percent of women of childbearing age.

"After I had my son, I struggled with that a bit and there's just not a lot of conversation or research around it," she told WWD. She framed the disclosure as part of a broader frustration with how women's health is discussed: "As a woman, I feel frustrated by the lack of research, the lack of awareness, the lack of certain conversation around it."

Hailey also spoke about why speaking out matters to her personally. "Conversation, for me personally, makes me feel less alone," she said. "When we can identify with each other and have conversations relating to each other and talking about the things we're dealing with and struggling with, I do think it makes it feel like less of a lonely journey."

The interview carries a concrete commitment behind it: her company, Rhode, is pledging $5 million over three years to the Foundation for Women's Health to support research into the condition.

It is not the first time Hailey has been open about a difficult medical chapter. On the "SHE M.D." podcast in March 2026, she revealed that she has a uterine septum, a condition associated with higher risks of miscarriage and infertility. She has previously described Jack's arrival as an unexpected pregnancy given that diagnosis — making her willingness to discuss the harder parts of the postpartum period a continuation of a pattern rather than a one-off.

Why Bieber's Fanbase Is Listening Closely

For a singer whose audience has grown up alongside him, this kind of disclosure lands differently than it might have a decade ago. Bieber emerged in the late 2000s as a teen idol via My World and My World 2.0, and the fans who once queued for mall appearances are now adults navigating careers, marriages and parenthood themselves. It is one reason Hailey's comments have traveled well beyond beauty-industry coverage and into the general celebrity conversation.

Justin himself has been candid about health and mental wellbeing at various points in his career, and his music has repeatedly reflected that openness — most notably on Purpose, the 2015 album that produced three US number-one singles in "Love Yourself," "Sorry" and "What Do You Mean?" and repositioned him as an adult artist. The couple's willingness to discuss difficult subjects publicly has become part of how their audience understands them.

The Lentz Chapter, Revisited

The second story is older and more complicated. Carl Lentz spent years as Justin Bieber's spiritual confidant after cofounding Hillsong NYC, a church that drew Justin and Hailey along with a roster of other famous names into its orbit. Lentz baptized Justin in 2014 in a former NBA player's bathtub and later invited the singer to live with his family in New Jersey during a difficult stretch of his life.

That relationship collapsed publicly in November 2020, when Hillsong's global senior pastor Brian Houston announced Lentz's termination, citing "leadership issues and breaches of trust, plus a recent revelation of moral failures." Lentz acknowledged the following day that he had been unfaithful to his wife, Laura. At the time, the Biebers had allowed the Lentz family to stay in their New York City apartment.

The Lentzes' 2026 book, Overcoming Infidelity: 10 Conversations to Help Heal the Hurt, revisits that period. In it, Laura Lentz alleges that after the scandal broke, someone on Justin's team called to say the family needed to be out of the apartment within 24 hours; Carl described the demand as "one more kick in the ribs" while his family was already struggling, though he also wrote that he later saw "God's hand" in the move.

What It Means — and What It Doesn't

The Lentz story is a reminder of how closely Bieber's public image has been tied to questions of faith and mentorship — themes that ran through his 2021 album Justice and its singles "Peaches" and "Stay." It is also a story told largely from one side; the Biebers have not publicly weighed in on the book's account.

For fans, the throughline across both stories is less about headlines than about where Bieber stands now. Since releasing Swag and Swag II in 2025, he has operated at a different pace than the album-a-year machine of his teens and early twenties. With a young son at home and a partner speaking openly about the realities of postpartum life, the next chapter of his career — whenever it arrives — is likely to be shaped by a life that looks considerably different from the one that produced "Baby."

That is not a release date or a tour announcement. It is simply the context in which whatever comes next will be made.