Why does Justin Bieber look like a completely different person?

if you think Justin Bieber he's the same wide-eyed kid he was when he got his big break on YouTube in 2008 by thinking back. Over the past decade, it has matured and changed in some amazing ways. In fact, Justin Bieber  he is a completely different person than you can remember.

The rise of Justin Bieber He rose to the top of pop quickly, thanks to his mother who pushed him to post his talents on YouTube. In 2008, I was in the recording studio with Usher. Within five years of breaking the pop hit, Bieber seemed to be on the verge of a total meltdown.

Throughout 2013, the excesses of Justin Bieber  they provided endless buzz on social media and news outlets. He was pulled over leaving a neighbor's house and pulled over in a Lamborghini while intoxicated. He was photographed in a Brazilian brothel. When the pop star was caught trying to smuggle a monkey into Germany, it seemed like Bieber's personal and professional life was in an unstoppable nosedive.

In 2015, Bieber got into a candid conversation with Joe LaPuma in Complex magazine. He admitted to being hyper-competitive, explaining that as a kid in Toronto, he built his sense of self-esteem and identity on being good at everything. At 21 at the time of the interview, Bieber looked back three years, when he also appeared on the cover of Complex. When asked how he's changed between the 2012 cover story and then, Bieber said he's learned to play golf and enjoyed the perks of reaching legal drinking age.

Fast forward to 2017, and Justin Bieber is putting his music career on hold while he enacts some big changes in his personal life. A year later, a new Justin Bieber emerged and he's not the mess you remember.

For starters, he's married.

That's right. The former teen idol is off the market for good. To many fans and followers, Bieber's secret but not-for-long marriage to Hailey Baldwin seemed like spur-of-the-moment craze. In fact, Bieber and Baldwin have been friends for several years and consider their legal union more organic than impromptu.

The couple leaked their legal relationship status after getting married in Manhattan last September. They plan to have a larger, more elaborate wedding with many guests, but no date has been set for the festivities. Baldwin and Bieber also deny rumors that children are in the immediate future.

Growing up in the spotlight
The transition from Justin Bieber from teen idol to mature adult hasn't been easy. For a time, he turned to Xanax and indiscriminate sexual encounters in an effort to feel good despite the beatings he was receiving in the press and on social media.

Nowadays Justin Bieber  He is also a frequent follower of Hillsong Church, and his relationship with Baldwin has brought him the stability he never had in his teens. We can't wait to see what the new paths for this talented artist will be.