Selena Gomez on the last cover of Vogue US
The twenty-four singer talks about mental health in a candid interview for the latest issue of the American magazine
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March 17th, 2017
March 17th, 2017
Selena Gomez is the cover star of the latest issue of Vogue US.
The first time for her. And she does it, after a long process of recovery and personal analysis that led her to deal not only two shelters in two years, but also a series of treatments to deal with panic attacks and depression that had already put her into difficulty in 2014 and that, this August, had taken her to undo the final dates of her Revival Tour.
"Tours are a really lonely place for me", explains the singer. "My self-esteem was shot. I was depressed, anxious. I started to have panic attacks right before getting onstage, or right after leaving the stage. Basically, I felt I wasn’t good enough, wasn’t capable. I felt I wasn’t giving my fans anything, and they could see it—which, I think, was a complete distortion. (…) I couldn’t say, ‘Everybody, let’s pinky-promise that you’re beautiful!’ It doesn’t work that way, and I know it because I’m dealing with the same shit they’re dealing with. What I wanted to say is that life is so stressful, and I get the desire to just escape it. But I wasn’t figuring my own stuff out, so I felt I had no wisdom to share".
Disney Channel's enfant prodige, the twenty-four Selene Gomez was recently decreed as the most followed person on Instagram. The first person to exceed 100 million of followers - 113 million actually - and current holder of the picture with more links on the platform. But not all that glitters is gold.
"As soon as I became the most followed person on Instagram, I sort of freaked out. It had become so consuming to me. It’s what I woke up to and went to sleep to. I was an addict, and it felt like I was seeing things I didn’t want to see, like it was putting things in my head that I didn’t want to care about. Which is why I’m kind of under the radar, ghosting it a bit".
What we can say is that seeing her now on the cover of Vogue smiling and full of health, we could not be more proud of her and of the courageous example that she gives to her millions of fans - young and old - all over the world. Discover the behind the scenes of her Vogue interview and you will think like us!
