At 30, Selena Gomez knows exactly what it’s like to be exposed to the opinions of others. At 11 he appeared on the children’s TV show Barney & Friends, at 15 he found success as the protagonist of the Disney series Wizards of Waverly Place and on Instagram he has a whopping 371 million followers. “Being exposed to media attention from such an early age undoubtedly brings a lot of pressure,” she explained in an interview with S Moda in 2021 while launching her beauty brand Rare. The constant comments about his body helped increase those pressures throughout his career, he realized at the time: “Every day, every day, I hear that I’m not sexy or cool enough, so I wanted to make a statement to everyone and encouraging everyone to be who they are and try to remove all that unwanted pressure.”
The Texas actress, singer and businesswoman has repeatedly spoken out about her mental health struggles (she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, as she revealed in her 2o22 documentary Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me) and has resisted criticism about her weight changes. The last time he faced such comments was on January 11. Gomez attended the Golden Globes and was nominated for Best Television Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series for her role as Mabel Mora in the series Only Murders in the Building, broadcast in Spain by Disney+. She attended the gala in Los Angeles accompanied by her little sister Gracie Teefey and wore a velvet puff sleeve model by Valentino. She didn’t receive the award Quinta Brunson won for Abbott Elementary, but she did have a debate on social media, which she settled by sharing an Instagram right in the car with her sister, where she said with a smile, “I me just a little fat from having fun over the holidays,” to which nine-year-old Gracie enthusiastically replied, “Yeah!”
“To everyone who is talking about their weight. Remember he had a kidney transplant for lupus right?” lamented one of her followers in the comments on the photos from the night, which Gomez herself shared on her Instagram account. Another person encouraged her to ignore the constant criticism of her body: “You don’t have to answer those haters who say you’ve gotten fat because you don’t owe them an explanation. Unfortunately, the industry cares more about the image than the interior. And you’re perfect just the way you are, no matter how much you weigh.” In September 2017, Gomez announced that she had received a kidney transplant, an organ damaged by lupus, an autoimmune disease that attacks healthy tissue and causes the the actress has been struggling with for years.In 2019, he explained on the Giving Back Generation podcast that the medication he’s taking for his illness has affected his metabolism: “I deal with a lot of health issues, and then I really started to Noticing things about body image more.” . But her weight changes don’t originate there, she herself has realized that they fluctuate depending on the emotional moments she’s going through. In fact, a video titled The Reason Selena Was Always Thin When She Was Justin Bieber’s Couple went viral late last year, and Gomez commented in a TikTok post of the video that the physicist had a lot to say about her relationship with the Canadian singer ( which stretched with interruptions between 2010 and 2018): “He’s more of a model. I’m too normal.”
Throughout her career, the interpreter has had to deal with the impact on her mental health caused by the constant scrutiny of her image. “I try to stay skinny, but then I go to Jack in the Box and order four tacos, three egg rolls, some onion rings and a spicy chicken sandwich. But honestly I don’t care about my weight, people will criticize me anyway. For being too big, for being too small… for not belonging,” Gomez commented in a video a few years ago, trying to send a message of self-acceptance. This effort has become a constant for her, compounded by the predicament that her comments on her various social networks have given her millions of followers: in August 2022 she posed in a bathing suit on a boat and when a friend told her that if I had to stick my belly for the video, she replied that she wouldn’t because “true bellies are back,” she said.
“The beauty myth is an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless cycle of hopelessness, self-confidence, and self-loathing as she tries to live up to society’s impossible definition of flawless beauty. I’ve chosen to take care of myself because I want to and not prove anything to anyone,” the actress argued in 2018, when she shared a video on her Instagram, conscious of the issues that thinking about the physical in a society causes image continues to be key, even though they’re trying to break the mold and showcase real diversity.”The pressure of self-confidence is very high because claims of beauty are also very unrealistic. The fashion and beauty industry is trying to tell us that everything to do with being comfortable in your own skin works (…) But at the same time, they’re also sending us messages with their increasingly strict and intense beauty demands. So there’s this contradictory situation. It’s a real tension and women have to deal with it, all of it Subjected to ideals that are really difficult to achieve,” explained Rosalind Gill and Shani Orgad, authors n the book Confidence Culture, in an interview with S Moda, in which they analyzed how a culture of confidence can negatively affect women’s perception of challenges and adversities.
Selena Gomez doesn’t shy away from this conversation and whenever she can she explains the paradoxes she lives and comments on the changes her body is going through at different times in her life. “Having the platform I have, it’s like sacrificing a little bit for the greater good,” he told Rolling Stone last November as he revealed why he made the documentary Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me wanted to do. In this year 2023, after his Golden Globe nomination, his projects do not stop: he continues to work on his beauty brand, he has just announced that he is already shooting the third season of Only Murders in the Building with the star signing of Meryl Streep , and has announced that he is already preparing the songs for his next album (his fourth studio effort).
“I try to stay skinny, but I went to Jack-in-the-Box and got four tacos, three egg rolls, onion rings, and a spicy chicken sandwich” – Selena Gomez pic.twitter.com/LdDMR3S7al
— Selena Gomez Source (@GomezSource) April 11, 2022
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Selena Gomez: ‘I Hear Every Day I’m Not Sexy Enough’