Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television producer. After appearing on the children's series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), she received wider recognition for her portrayal of Alex Russo on the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place, which aired from 2007 until 2012.
Gomez also starred in the films Another Cinderella Story (2008), Princess Protection Program (2009), Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (2009), Ramona and Beezus (2010), and Monte Carlo (2011). Thereafter, she focused on more mature roles in Spring Breakers (2012), Getaway (2013), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016), and The Dead Don't Die (2019). She voices the character of Mavis in the Hotel Transylvania film franchise, and serves as an executive producer of the Netflix television drama series 13 Reasons Why (2017–present) and the Netflix documentary series Living Undocumented (2019).
Selena Gomez felt she was ‘expected’ to be overtly sexual in her videos: ‘I did things that weren’t me’
metro.co.ukDisney Channel.This led her to believe there was an ‘expectation’ for her to have a raunchy persona to promote her album in 2015, and was a tough time for the star.Selena told Allure: ‘I just did things that weren’t really me. ‘There was pressure to seem more adult on my album, Revival. [I felt] the need to show skin… I really don’t think I was [that] person.’Revival included such tracks as Hands To Myself and Good For You.She also touched on her mental health after sharing that she is bipolar on an Instagram Live with Miley Cyrus.Selena shared that she is still trying to learn as much as she can about her mental health: ‘I have always had so many different emotions and I didn’t know how to control them quite well.‘It was complicated.
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