At 32, Selena Gomez is one of the most famous people on planet Earth. She has been singing, acting in film and television for a quarter of a century, triumphing as an entrepreneur to the point of becoming a billionaire, and amassing enormous influence on social media (she has 425 million followers on Instagram) and, basically, being a very famous face all over the world. However, despite having given dozens of interviews and having been transparent in many aspects of her life, including her health, until now the Texan had not told something very important to her, and that she has decided to reveal to the world: that she cannot have children.
The Emmy nominee for best actress for Only murders in the building has decided to make this very personal detail public in a long interview given to the American edition of the magazine Vanity Fairwhose cover of the October issue she is on. In the conversation, topics such as her family, her younger sister, her parents or her current partner, the music producer Benny Blanco, frequently come up, as well as the fact that she is the godmother of her cousin Priscilla’s two children, so she talks about children and motherhood. Then, at one point in the conversation, she pauses to say: “I have never told this before, but unfortunately I cannot have children of my own. I have many medical problems that would put my life and that of the baby at risk. It is something that for a while I have had to go through my own mourning.”
According to the interviewer, Gomez speaks about the subject “calmly and without sentimentality,” in what seems like a long reflection on her part. “It’s not necessarily the way I had imagined it,” she admits about becoming a mother at some point. “I thought it would happen the same way it happens to everyone. But I’m in a much better place now with all of that. I see it as a blessing that there are wonderful people who are willing to do surrogacy or adoption, and both are huge possibilities for me. It makes me really grateful for the opportunities that there are for people who are dying to be a mother. I am one of those people. I’m excited about what that path will be like, because it will be a little different. But at the end of the day, I don’t care. It will be mine, it will be my child.”
Gomez has suffered from lupus, which for a time caused her to retire from acting, and she also has a kidney transplant that was donated to her by a friend, Francia Raísa, in 2017. In addition, she has had many mental health problems such as bipolar disorder, something she herself talked about in a documentary a couple of years ago on AppleTV+, where she talked about how she dealt with anxiety and depression. In fact, in this new interview she also reveals how she wanted to withdraw the footage and stop its release, in part because she was afraid of the public’s reaction. “When it came out, I didn’t want to watch anything for a few days, I was afraid to leave the house,” she says now.
She always knew that she wanted to start a family when she turned 35, even before dating Benny Blanco. In fact, she explains that before she started dating him, in the spring of 2023, she was single for five years, only going on a few dates. “And I said to myself: OK, if this is the thing, what is the most important thing to me? Family,” she explains. That is why, she says, she has also been thinking about adopting a child for some time, among other things because her mother was also adopted, a fact that for her is fundamental to her own existence. “I wouldn’t be here,” she says, if her mother hadn’t been adopted. “I don’t know what her life would have been like. She and I are very grateful for how our lives have gone.”
The most nominated Latina in the history of the Emmys as a producer (a record that she has broken this year precisely thanks to Only murders in the building) suggests that her plans for the future with Blanco are very serious and, although she does not speak directly about the wedding, stating that neither he nor his family are pushing for a marriage celebration, she does explain that both seek to “protect” what they have, “without rules”: “I want him to always be himself, and to always be myself.” In addition, she also says that she is not going to use her last name: “I am not going to change my name, no matter what happens. I am Selena Gomez, period.”
In addition to many changes and good news in her personal life, Gomez faces an intense and predictably fruitful professional season. On Sunday we will find out if she wins her first Emmy as an actor for the Hulu comedy and mystery series, and in a few weeks she will also premiere the long-awaited film Emilia Perezwritten and directed by Jacques Audiard and where she plays Jessi, the wife of the leader of a violent Mexican cartel. A role in Spanish —she says in Vanity Fair who doesn’t speak it too badly, although not fluently either, but who sings the language very well—which has already earned her applause at various international festivals and which places her in a very good position in the race for the most important awards of the season.
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