Since rising to stardom, Selena Gomez has candidly discussed her journey with self-love and body positivity.
“Being in the public eye from such an early age certainly comes with a lot of pressure. It’s hard to feel comfortable when you feel like everyone is watching, judging and commenting on the way you look,” she told Glamour UK in December 2022. “Self-confidence is still something I work on daily, but when I stopped trying to conform to society’s unrealistic standards of beauty, my perspective entirely shifted.”
During a 2019 appearance on the “Giving Back Generation” podcast, Gomez explained that her weight fluctuates as a result of her health issues, such as lupus, kidney problems and high blood pressure.
After her health struggles were mocked on shows such as The Good Fight and Peacock’s Saved by the Bell reboot, Gomez and her fans took to Twitter to fight back.
“I am not sure how writing jokes about organ transplants for television shows has become a thing but sadly it has apparently,” Gomez wrote via Twitter in August 2021. “I hope in the next writer’s room when one of these tasteless jokes are presented it’s called out immediately and doesn’t make it on air.”
She added: “My fans always have my back. LOVE YOU.”
Keep scrolling to see more of Gomez’s most inspiring quotes about body positivity:
