Justin Bieber just dropped another emotional truth bomb, and it’s hitting hard.
The 31-year-old singer opened up on Instagram about how “exhausting” love can feel when you’re constantly trying to earn it. Despite having a thriving career and a growing family, Justin admitted that receiving love still doesn’t come easy for him.
The ‘Peaches’ singer, who recently welcomed his eight-month-old son Jack with wife Hailey Bieber, posted a series of vulnerable messages. “Love isn’t a you get what you put in kind of thing,” he wrote on Instagram Stories. “It’s a receiving thing. I still find myself trying to earn love. And it’s exhausting.” That admission sheds light on just how difficult it can be to feel deserving, even when love is clearly present.
He continued, reflecting on how people often told him he “deserved” things, but those affirmations didn’t always bring comfort. “Made me exhausted from trying to prove I was worthy at times,” he said. “Also made me feel more entitled at times. It either makes us feel not good enough or that we’re owed something. True love is freely given with no expectation.”
This isn’t the first time Justin has gotten deep in his posts. Over the past few months, he’s shared more messages addressing his mental and emotional health. Recently, he posted, “I got anger issues too, but I want to grow and not react so much smh,” revealing his desire to change and be better, especially for himself and those close to him.
In a more revealing post, Justin shared a moment of self-hate that hits painfully close to home. “I think I hate myself sometimes when I feel myself start to become inauthentic,” he wrote, alongside a video of him jamming with other musicians. “Then I remember we’re all being made to think we’re not enough, but I still hate when I change myself to please people.” The pressure to stay authentic while battling outside expectations seems to be something he’s grappling with constantly.
He also got brutally honest about his experience with hate, something he was taught to suppress as a child. “I was always told when I was a kid not to hate,” he said. “But it made me feel like I wasn’t allowed to have it, and so I didn’t tell anyone I’ve had it. Which made me feel like I have been drowning, feeling unsafe to acknowledge it. I think we can only let hate go by first acknowledging it’s there. How couldn’t we feel hate from all of the hurt we have experienced?”
And then there’s the imposter syndrome. Despite his fame and the praise he’s received over the years, Bieber says he often feels like a fraud. “People told me my whole life, ‘Wow, Justin, you deserve that.’ And I personally have always felt unworthy, like I was a fraud, like when people told me I deserved something,” he confessed. “It made me feel sneaky, like, damn, if they only knew my thoughts. How judgmental I am, how selfish I really am… they wouldn’t be saying this.”
He wrapped it up by saying, “I say all this to say, if you feel sneaky, welcome to the club. I definitely feel unequipped and unqualified most days.”
Justin’s emotional honesty is striking, especially coming from someone whose image was once so tightly controlled. Now, he’s pulling back the curtain and showing the raw, complicated human behind the celebrity, and maybe, in doing so, he’s making space for others to feel seen in their own mess too.
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