"I will never look like this again." With this forcefulness, Selena Gomez accepts the changes in her body after sharing with her followers on Instagram one of her photographs in a bikini, dated 2013. Ten years have gone a long way, and the actress has experienced all kinds of changes in this decade, mainly derived from the health problems caused by the lupus he suffers from.
An illness that she was diagnosed with in 2011 and for which she received a kidney transplant thanks to her friend, actress Francia Raisa, to whom she will be eternally grateful for the second chance. However, lupus and its consequences caused her body to radically transform, causing her to be harshly criticized by the media and her detractors for not complying with the strict canons of Hollywood.
"Today I realized that I will never look like this again," the actress writes in an image she shared on her Instagram Stories, where she can be seen wearing an animal print bikini. In the following Story about her, the actress and singer shares a much more recent one of hers, in which she proudly shows off her curves while she enjoys the waters of Mexico.
"I'm not perfect, but I'm proud of who I am... Sometimes I forget that it's okay to be me."
At 31 years old, the actress is experiencing a great professional moment. Her role as Mabel Mora in Only Murders in the Building has become one of the bombs of Disney Plus, becoming one of the most popular fictions on the platform and deserving of various awards. The actress was nominated for Best Lead Actress in a Television Series at the last two Golden Globe Awards.
A new professional stage after several years dedicated to recovering from the consequences of her kidney transplant and how, despite this, her battle against lupus worsened in 2020. A pain that led her to suffer serious mental health problems -the actress She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2018, which delayed her return to show business.
"That's why I retired in 2015. I could have had a heart attack," he revealed to Billboard at the time, admitting that he had received chemotherapy treatment as part of the process. "The sample sizes didn't fit me, I no longer had a teenage body. I was ashamed. I said, 'I wish my body was like that', as I saw some images on Instagram," she admitted.
Now, almost recovered, she has returned to work and although she has her ups and downs, she admits that she has some control.
