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By Shannon Power
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Selena Gomez revealed she is not able to carry a baby and how she reacted to the reality of knowing that.
Gomez got onto the topic of children during an interview with Vanity Fair after talking about her cousin Priscilla's two children, to whom she is godmother.
"I haven't ever said this," she said. "But I unfortunately can't carry my own children. I have a lot of medical issues that would put my life and the baby's in jeopardy. That was something I had to grieve for a while."
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"It's not necessarily the way I envisioned it," the actress and singer continued. "I thought it would happen the way it happens for everyone. [But] I'm in a much better place with that. I find it a blessing that there are wonderful people willing to do surrogacy or adoption, which are both huge possibilities for me. It made me really thankful for the other outlets for people who are dying to be moms. I'm one of those people. I'm excited for what that journey will look like, but it'll look a little different. At the end of the day, I don't care. It'll be mine. It'll be my baby."
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Gomez has battled lupus, a chronic autoimmune illness which attacks healthy tissue within one's body. She received chemotherapy for the condition but when her kidneys began shutting down on her, Gomez had a kidney transplant.
Her good friend, Francia Raisa, donated one of her kidneys to Gomez in 2017 for the successful surgery.
However, going through the chronic illness since at least 2013 led to many mental health struggles, which she spoke about in her Apple+ TV documentary, Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me.
Gomez suffered a mental breakdown in 2016 and was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She spoke on what it was like opening up to the world about her mental health and gave an update on how she is feeling now.
"I like to remind people that that is definitely nowhere close to where I am now. My mind was not right and chemically imbalanced, and it was really difficult," she told Vanity Fair.
"People were calling me a victim. That frustrates me, because being vulnerable is actually one of the strongest things you can do. That narrative is not going to take over my life. I'm grateful every day. And I have my days like everyone else, but I'm no victim. I just survived a lot. There isn't a part of me that wants anyone to feel sorry for me."
Elsewhere in the article, Gomez opened up on her relationship with music producer Benny Blanco and even though they're madly in love, are not rushing into marriage.
"We always make sure we're protecting what we have, but there's no rules," she said. "I want him to always be himself. I always want to be myself."
Gomez also said of their relationship, "I've never been loved this way. He's just been a light. A complete light in my life. He's my best friend. I love telling him everything."
Update 09/09/24, 11:10 a.m. ET: This article was updated to include additional information.
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