UPDATE, 5/22/25 at 9:07 a.m. ET:
Justin Bieber has updated his Instagram caption after admitting to once telling wife Hailey Bieber she’d “never” be on the cover of Vogue.
Eagle-eyed fans were quick to spot on Thursday, May 22, that Bieber’s honest caption — which received some backlash online — had been updated to a series of emojis, including a shrugging man, a finger pointing, heart hands and a face with tears in its eyes. (For those who need the visual: 
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Original story below:
Mere hours after Hailey Bieber’s first solo Vogue cover dropped on Tuesday, May 20, Justin Bieber took to Instagram to share a candid confession about a past argument with his wife over the magazine.
The “mean” comment stemmed from feeling “disrespected,” which Justin, 31, admitted he now deeply regrets.
“Yo, this reminds me when Hailey and I got into a huge fight,” Justin captioned a photo of Hailey’s cover via Instagram on Tuesday. He then dropped the bombshell: “I told Hails that she would never be on the cover of Vogue. Yikes, I know, so mean.”
This admission, particularly given Hailey’s prominent career as a supermodel and this being her now-second Vogue cover since their marriage (including the March 2019 Vogue cover they shared), detailed this deeply personal moment in their relationship and the power dynamics.
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Justin went on to a “fleeting, yet powerful, urge to “get even” when feeling disrespected. “For some reason, because I felt so disrespected, I thought I gotta get even…” he wrote.
However, he quickly pivoted to a more evolved perspective, reflecting on the lessons learned as they’ve grown together. “I think as we mature, we realize that we’re not helping anything by getting even, we’re honestly just prolonging what we really want, which is intimacy and connection,” he added.
The singer, who shares son Jack Blues, 8 months, with Hailey, ended his apology with words directed straight to his wife: “So baby u already know but forgive me for saying u wouldn’t get a Vogue cover cuz clearly i was sadly mistaken.”
This candid reflection from Justin provides a personal anecdote about their relationship and inadvertently underlines Hailey’s significant presence in the fashion world.
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Far from being absent from the pages of Vogue, Hailey has cemented her status as a top model and a style icon, appearing on numerous international covers for the esteemed publication.
In the new issue that came out Tuesday, she reflected on the arduous postpartum journey she experienced after giving birth to Jack in August 2024, including body dysmorphia and more. She also set the record straight on the headlines surrounding a potential rift in her marriage.
“It’s not real,” she told Vogue of most of what’s written about her. “And that’s the thing: I have a real life,” she continued. “My real life is that I get to wake up to my beautiful family and my son and my friends and I have people that know me and love me and I love them.”
Justin’s past prediction makes his “sadly mistaken” admission all the more, well, sad.
