Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco arrive at the Oscars
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Selena Gomez is tired of the constant conversation around her appearance.
In an interview alongside fiancé Benny Blanco on the popular podcast “On Purpose” with Jay Shetty, Gomez opened up about how public scrutiny of her weight has made her “a tad bitter.”
“The world has become so hard to please,” Gomez told Shetty. “I’m called fake, I’m called insincere … it just doesn’t feel safe and I don’t like being myself sometimes.”
Gomez has been in the public eye since early adolescence, first appearing on “Barney & Friends” at age 10 before graduating to Disney Channel stardom and eventually full-fledged celebrity status. Her relationship and subsequent breakup with fellow teen sensation Justin Bieber further cemented public interest in her life, an interest that has only grown in the years since.
“Women have it much harder,” Gomez told both Shetty and Blanco, calling the comfortability fans have commenting on female stars’ appearance and romantic relationships “pretty wild.”
“This isn’t news to anybody that obviously women have a lot more intense feelings from their appearance,” she said. “When I get prepared for an event, 90% of the time I just hope I can take the picture and sit down.
“It’s the character that gets judged,” she continued. “It’s the way I’m not white enough, I’m not Mexican enough … there’s just so many different things that come up in my face that I can’t help but see.”
Gomez, known for taking frequent social media breaks and speaking candidly about her struggles with mental health, revealed she was engaged to Blanco in December. The couple’s joint “One Purpose” appearance is part of a larger media blitz to promote their new album “I Said I Love You First.”
Gomez also shared that even she is not immune to reading the comment section.
“I fall victim to looking at things,” she shared. “It really it doesn’t add to your life but it’s just so difficult, from the choices of the people you date, it’s like nobody cares about those kind of things with men.
“We just carry a lot,” she continued. “My weight’s a big one, too. Everyone just has something to say and it’s really making me sad. Not even sad because you know what no, I’m not a victim everyone. I just think it’s made me a tad bitter and I feel really guilty for saying that but it’s true.”
The singer has been open in the past about how, after being diagnosed with lupus, an autoimmune condition in 2013, her body has fluctuated more frequently.
“I have lupus and deal with kidney issues and high blood pressure, so I deal with a lot of health issues, and for me that’s when I really started noticing more of the body image stuff,” she said during a 2019 appearance on the Giving Back Generation podcast. “So for me, I really started to notice when people started attacking me for that.”
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