Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber have long put any drama behind them—and Bieber made that all the more clear this week after Gomez announced her engagement to Benny Blanco. The model liked Gomez’s Instagram post in a show of support.
Hailey, of course, is married to Gomez’s ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber. The couple welcomed their first child, son Jack, in August.
Last June, Hailey spoke publicly about how frustrating it was to be pitted against Gomez. “I don’t think that this is about me, Hailey Bieber, and Selena Gomez—this is not about this pitting between two women and division between two women,” she said during her appearance on the Bloomberg Originals series The Circuit With Emily Chang. “It’s about the vile, disgusting hatred that can come from completely made-up and twisted and perpetuated narratives. That can be really dangerous.”
At the time, both she and Gomez shared statements speaking out against the hateful comments. Hailey reflected on the move, saying, “I think that it’s an opportunity to really stand for bringing people together and not being okay with the kind of division that that caused because I’m not okay with the kind of division that it caused. I don’t like this whole idea of Team This Person and Team This Person. I’m just not about that. I want to be able to bring people together. I think that was a really important moment for people to see that you can do that. And you can bring people together, and it doesn’t have to be about this divisive nature.”
Benny Blanco has now given fans a peek into the moment he proposed to Selena Gomez. On Instagram, the producer posted a video clip of the two toasting champagne, Gomez’s marquise diamond ring visible on her hand. He kept the post captionless.
As E! pointed out, the video also revealed some new details about the proposal. While Gomez’s original post announcing the engagement seemed to show her sitting in a park, Blanco’s post makes it look like the proposal took place on a soundstage. Notice the studio lights and recording equipment in the background. However, the couple has yet to share the exact story of how Blanco asked Gomez to marry him.
Gomez, meanwhile, shared a new photo of her and Blanco on her Instagram Story yesterday:
When Gomez announced the couple was engaged, Blanco left a comment on her Instagram. “hey wait… that’s my wife,” he wrote.
Gomez and Blanco have been together for over a year and a half. In May, he spoke to Howard Stern about his relationship with Gomez and whether he wanted to marry her one day. “The way we talk and stuff, people always say this to me, ‘You know when you meet your best friend,’” he said. “She’s truly just like my best friend. We laugh all fucking day. She inspires me.”
When asked whether he wanted to propose to Gomez, Blanco initially dodged the question, saying, “When I look at her, I do say, I’m always just like, ‘I don’t know a world where it could be better than this.’” He admitted soon after that he didn’t have a ring yet: “I don’t have anything. I’ve got no shoes on. I’ve got to get my act together.”
