Hailey Bieber revealed that she has distanced herself from her famous family in an interview with W Magazine published on July 23. “I’m not super close with my family at this point in my life because I feel like I’m very independent,” she disclosed. “I’m my own individual now, and I’ve built my own family.
But when I look back on my childhood and how I grew up, I have very fond, beautiful memories.” The model, 27, spoke candidly about her “fairly normal childhood” despite the fame of her father, Stephen Baldwin, and her uncles Alec, Danny and Billy Baldwin. “Obviously, I come from the family that I come from, and I always recognized that that was different,” she said.
She was born in Tucson, Arizona, and raised by Stephen and mom Kennya Baldwin in Nyack, New York, alongside her older sister, Alaia Baldwin. She further explained to the publication that the root of her distance from her family began when she started modeling at 17 and moved to New York City. “I started traveling the world, making my own money.
I got my own apartment and had to learn how to live on my own ...
That pushed me into adulthood kind of quickly,” Hailey reflected. In a 2018 interview with Vogue Arabia, the model maintained that her relationship with her family remained tight-knit. “Being close to my own has helped me so much in this industry.
It’s great to have those strong ties,” Hailey said at the time. Hailey didn’t reveal a specific falling out with her family th.