Selena Gomez is Billboard’s Woman of the Year and this couldn’t come at a better time for the singer, who’s had to deal with a lot of health issues this year. Over the last couple of years, she’s had to deal with the pains of lupus, including anxiety, depression, and kidney failure and transplant.
It’s definitely been one of the toughest years for the singer, but yet she’s been making music and has even helped raise $500,000 for lupus research. She was recently quoted saying that she doesn’t want people to feel sad for her over her kidney transplant and lupus.
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Even the scar from her kidney transplant was something that she struggled with at first, but she’s in a better place now. “I remember looking at myself in the mirror completely naked and thinking about all the things that I used to bitch about and just asking, ‘Why?’ I had someone in my life for a very long time who pointed out all the things that I didn’t feel great about with myself. When I look at my body now, I just see life. There are a million things I can do — lasers and creams and all that stuff — but I’m OK with it,” she said to Billboard.
“I think altering or editing myself for the sake of others has been something that I have done my whole life. I’ve had to accept where I am. It took me about five years and moments where I needed to step away and be alone and fight those fights on my own or go away to a place where I could focus on that. And that time for me was so painful and really hard and very lonely. But I really, really felt that that’s what helped me feel satisfied with where I am.”
As far as her dating life, she dated The Weeknd for almost a year and she explains that they are still best friends. Now she’s been hanging out with Justin Beiber which has shocked a lot of people. “I’m 25. I’m not 18, or 19, or 20. I cherish people who have really impacted my life. So maybe before, it could have been forcing something that wasn’t right. But that doesn’t mean caring for someone ever goes away.”
Her and Beiber have been seen hanging out and even kissing, but she says it’s no big deal. “I don’t think it’s as serious as people make things out to be half the time. It’s just my life. I grew up with all of these people, and it’s so cool to see where everybody is. It comes back to the idea of me remaining full. I think a true representation of love is beyond just yourself. It’s me going to get coffee earlier this morning and talking with a woman who was celebrating her birthday and going to Disneyland for the first time. I told her about my favorite things there, and she got excited, and then I got excited because she was excited. The littlest things are impactful.”