Justin Bieber's wife Hailey looks miserable after he ruined her Vogue moment and put on steamy show with SZA
seemed to be showing the strain when she was spotted out in Beverly Hills on Tuesday.
The 28-year-old model alternated between a grimace and a stony-faced expression as she emerged from the United Talent Agency building.
Hailey — who's current represented by the William Morris Endeavor subsidiary IMG Models, a competitor to UTA — was spotted in town following her husband Justin Bieber 's latest stunt on social media, which was lambasted by her fans.
Although she sported miserable expressions, she wore a cool ensemble featuring an oversize black leather biker jacket with a matching crop top and baggy black slacks and black leather loafers.
She wore her brunette hair styled straight with a middle part, and she blocked out the piercing light with a set of slim black sunglasses.
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Hailey seemed to be keeping a low profile as she arrived at the building after she arrived in LA on a private jet.
She didn't appear to be joined by her husband for the outing.
The model was taking care of business despite the reported turmoil in her marriage to Justin, 31, in recent months.
He was widely criticized by fans after he admitted telling her she would never be on the cover of Vogue in order to hurt her during an argument.
He made the bizarre revelation in a post intended to celebrate his wife for finally achieving a cover story on the magazine, and fans blasted him in the comments for sharing something he should have instead kept to himself.
An insider subsequently revealed to DailyMail.com that Justin and Hailey are regularly 'at each other's throats,' and the bruising argument the pop star described isn't out of the ordinary for them.
Because of that earlier argument, fans were unmoved when Justin again tried to celebrate his wife's accomplishments by reposting a photo on Sunday that Hailey's Rhode Beauty products will soon be sold at Sephora locations.
Instead of another take on complimenting his wife, Justin just left the caption blank this time, which only fueled further criticism in the comments section.
'Did you tell her she'd never be in Sephora?' one fan wrote, while a second added, 'aww she made it on sephora, sadly.'
Another person wrote, 'Let me guess, you also told her she wasn't going to make it?'
'"i Told Hails , you're not going to get it in Sephora but sadly was mistaken... "' read one of the joking imagined arguments.
Some commenters even joked that the missing caption meant that Hailey must have taken her husband's phone away.
'Hailey give his phone back,' one user wrote, with another adding, 'Hailey is that you?'
Earlier this month, Justin shocked many of his and Hailey's fans when he shared a cruelly backhanded compliment to his wife for winning a spot on the latest cover of Vogue.
'Yo this reminds me when Hailey and I got into a huge fight, I told hails that she would never be on the cover of vogue, Yikes I know, so mean, For some reason because I felt so disrespected I thought I gotta get even,' he explained in what some fans took to be an attempt at humor.
'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 continued.
Fans mocked Justin for not writing a sweet caption to make up for the earlier widely mocked one
Even his apparent attempt at a sweet conclusion to the bizarre post couldn't help but bring up the painful insult again.
'So baby u already know but forgive me for saying u wouldn't get a vogue cover cuz clearly i was sadly mistaken,' he wrote.
Commenters on the post were shocked that he would admit to such behavior.
Once user wrote that it was 'Giving Kanye,' and another added, 'A simple congrats would've been fine I fear.'
Several fans suggested Justin should have just kept the argument a 'secret.'
One person savaged him by commenting, 'brother you'll never beat the hates his wife allegations like this.' Another fan urged him to just 'put that phone down please.'
In the wake of Justin's confession, fans of his wife highlighted past incidents in which he had allegedly displayed 'unsupportive behavior' toward his wife to contextualize the Vogue controversy.
Some fans claimed that the disheveled way he often dresses for public events with Hailey betrays a lack of respect.
'When you see Justin going to Hailey's events wearing sweats and Crocs, it's not because that's his style,' one X (formerly Twitter) user said.
'It's because he doesn't see those events as important. He appears supportive but only on his terms.'
Other users seemed to agree saying, 'Wearing sweats to her big moments isn't a vibe - it's a message' and 'He's starting to seem just bitter and jealous at this point.'
In the past, some fans have suggested that his ultra-casual looks have been to let Hailey stand out
But others had more recently become convinced that it was the other way around, and Justin was allegedly taking the spotlight.
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