In a recent cover story highlighting her great success with her cosmetic brand, Rare Beauty, Selena Gomez reflects on how far she’s come as her cosmetic line is expected to exceed $300 million in sales in 2023, which is triple what it earned in 2022.
While speaking with Fast Company for its latest issue, the 31-year-old looks back on some of the hardest battles in her life which made her become the strong woman that she is today. One of the tough chapters that she mentioned was her big breakup with her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber. The two officially called it quits in 2018 following an on-again-off-again rocky relationship. It led to her taking a long social media break. She explained,
“I had just gotten my heart broken. I didn’t need to see what everyone was doing,” the singer told the magazine. “Then there were those moments of not feeling positive about how I looked because of what I’d see on Instagram. Wow, I wish my body looked like that.”
In addition to that, she was also dealing with bipolar disorder. Gomez shared the news of her diagnosis for the first time during a conversation with Miley Cyrus in 2020. “I wanted there to be a conversation started,” Gomez explained. “I wasn’t ashamed, and I wanted it to lead to something healing.”
Speaking more on her decision to be open and honest about her diagnosis, Gomez said, “I went through a really hard season. It was my highs and my lows, and I didn’t know what to do, so I couldn’t control it. I would want to cancel things. It was just a tormented feeling. That’s why, when I found out my diagnosis, it was just, ‘Oh, okay, I feel a bit relieved, I understand a bit more.’ I got second opinions. I went to doctors. I’m fortunate enough to be able to have people who can help me survive every day.”
As difficult as that was to go through, Gomez, who is single, shares that she’s in a much better place and fans will feel just that in her upcoming music.
She shared with the outlet, “I love sad-girl music, I’m really good at that,” she told the mag about her latest era. “However, I can’t really write that if I’m not sad. I’ve had to relearn what being me and being happy looked like. There is not one sad song on this whole album.”
As for the advice she has for her fans who find themselves going through a tough time, Gomez says,
“Every choice you make is yours. At the end of the day, you have to be proud of it. If it ends up being a mistake, it’s your mistake to learn. Take a lesson from that. Does it make you feel good? Does it not? Evaluate and get to know yourself as much as you can.’ But I would never say don’t do something, because I don’t live with regrets,” the beauty mogul says when asked what advice she would give her fans. “I can relate to a whole sea of beautiful human beings, because I’ve walked through some really tough moments, and now I’m on the other side.”
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