Justin and Hailey Bieber at the 2026 Grammys
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Jack Blues Bieber, 16 months old and freshly woken from his nap, apparently has one thing on his mind. Not milk. Not cartoons. Basketball.

'He says 'basketball' all the time,' Hailey Bieber laughed, recalling her morning with her son as she sat on Jake Shane's Therapuss podcast. 'I went to get him up from his nap today, and he was like "basketball". It's insane. So funny.'

It's a tiny, throwaway detail about a toddler most of the world will never meet. But in the rare glimpses Hailey and Justin Bieber do allow into their home life, it feels oddly intimate, evidence that the former teen idol and the model who grew up in a famous family are now deep in the trenches of very ordinary parenthood.

Hailey Bieber On Jack Blues And The Quiet Shock Of Motherhood

Appearing on the season three premiere of Therapuss, now streaming on Netflix, 29-year-old Hailey was more relaxed and unguarded than the heavily scrutinised public persona often suggests. She spoke with disarming affection about Jack Blues, born in August 2024, describing a baby who is already loudly staking his claim on the world.

Jack, she explained, hasn't just found his favourite word, he has also just started to say 'please.'

For months, Hailey said, he communicated the word using sign language. 'He knew how to sign 'please' for a really long time,' she explained, demonstrating the American Sign Language gesture on camera.

Now the sign has become a sound, and there's a clear sense she finds the shift quietly magical.

Jack's arrival last year was framed, even then, in almost reverential terms. Shortly after his birth, a source close to the couple told People: 'They're both overjoyed. The baby is such a miracle... The pregnancy was something that they very much wished and prayed for.'

On Therapuss, Hailey confirmed what many suspected: she has always seen motherhood as part of her story. 'I always knew I wanted kids, I always wanted to be a mom,' she said. 'And then when it happens, you never know what to expect and you don't know what it's going to be like. And it honestly, it's so much fun.'

There's a hint of surprise in how she says it, as if the fun part still feels like a pleasant shock.

Asked by host Jake Shane, 26, what no one had prepared her for, Hailey resisted the Instagram-era temptation to offer a neat life lesson. Instead, she admitted how fundamentally unknowable the whole process is.

'It's a whole bunch of you just don't know what's going to happen until you get there,' she said. What did catch her off guard, though, was her own temperament. 'I feel like I'm a lot more relaxed as a mom than I thought I would be. I think especially as a first time mom.'

In a culture that often expects first-time mothers, particularly famous ones, to be anxious, hyper-regimented, obsessively reading the parenting manuals, Hailey's description of herself as unexpectedly laid-back is striking.

It hints at a family life that, however curated in public, might be less frantic than many would assume for one of the most photographed couples on earth.

Hailey Bieber Talks More Kids, One Baby At A Time

Of course, the question hanging over any young celebrity couple with a new baby is whether more are coming. Hailey did not dodge it.

'I definitely do want one more,' she said, before catching herself. 'I'm not in a rush, but I definitely want one more. Maybe I'll have four more. Maybe I'll have three. I don't know, I really don't know. I'm just taking it one day at a time.'

It's an answer that manages to be both playful and carefully non-committal. She makes it clear that she sees Jack as the beginning of a larger brood, but sets a gentle boundary around the speculation that has followed her since she first married Justin.

'One kid at a time' has become something of a mantra for her, and there's a sense it's less about family planning than about survival in an environment that dissects every ultrasound, outfit choice and angle of a paparazzi photo.

Still, the picture she paints is not of a couple overwhelmed, but of two people who, after years of public drama and health scares, have settled into a surprisingly simple rhythm: a baby who chants 'basketball,' a mother delighted by the word 'please,' a future family left deliberately uncharted.

For now, Hailey seems content to talk. The third season of Therapuss will release new episodes on Netflix every Wednesday, and her appearance is clearly designed to kick it off with star power.

Yet beneath the glossy packaging, what lingers is not the plug for the show, but the image of a woman who has spent most of her adulthood under a microscope finally sounding like what she says she always wanted to be, just a mum, talking about her kid.