Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally victimized by this imaginary feud.
By Kathleen Walsh
February 23, 2023
The internet is determined to uncover an alleged long simmering feud between Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez, no matter how many times they’ve said that no such feud exists. Now TikTok has dragged Kylie Jenner into the imaginary drama. Look, I love a juicy bit of celebrity gossip as much as the next entertainment news writer, but pitting women against each other for no reason does more harm than good.
The supposed beef between Bieber and Gomez all revolves around Justin Bieber—because Justin had on-and-off again relationships with both women for years before finally proposing to Hailey in 2018, shortly after breaking up with Gomez for the final time, per People. The timeline was apparently enough to convince large swaths of the internet that the two women must hate each other, which is a little insulting if you think about it.
So what does this have to do with Jenner? So glad you asked! Three hours after Gomez posted a TikTok saying she accidentally overlaminated her eyebrows, Jenner posted a photo of her face with text reading, “This was an accident???” over her own eyebrows to her Instagram Stories. Jenner then posted another IG story, this time a screenshot of a FaceTime with her friend Hailey Bieber, with the camera zoomed in on their eyes…or was it their eyebrows?!
“They are shading Selena Gomez and this is very, very childish,” one TikTok creator said in a video. But in the comments, Jenner herself weighed in on the nondrama. “This is reaching. no shade towards selena ever and i didn’t see her eyebrow posts! u guys are making something out of nothing. this is silly,” she wrote. Gomez also replied, saying, “It’s all unnecessary. I’m a fan of Kylie!”
It’s all a little exhausting, if you ask me. There seems to be nothing any of these women can do or say that will convince fans to drop it. Gomez has even tried addressing her fans directly, on multiple occasions. “I do not stand for women tearing women down. I will never, ever be by that. So please be kind to everyone,” she once said in an Instagram Live. In a TikTok Live video, she called what’s been said about Bieber “vile and disgusting,” and asked her fans to lay off.
Can’t we just let women exist on the internet without creating fake drama? I promise, there is plenty of real drama in the world without turning women into villains for our own amusement.
