After she made the call to avoid it, she added, “it was instant freedom.” “I woke up one morning and looked at Instagram, like every other person, and I was done,” she said. Despite being one of the most followed people on Instagram, Gomez no longer uses the app herself, instead sending photos and words she wants posted to her assistant. “I start thinking about my personal life, and I’m like, ‘What am I doing with my life?’ and it becomes this spiral,” she said.īut she has also taken steps reduce unnecessary mental strain. She still deals with anxiety regularly, especially late at night. “I knew I couldn’t go on unless I learned to listen to my body and mind when I really needed help,” she said. She has checked into treatment centers three times, in 2014, 2016, and 2018, to address her mental health she told Vogue that the help was crucial in helping her understand and address her feelings of being burned out and depressed. The singer and actor has long been open about how the press and social media have affected her well-being. “I’m just such a people-pleaser.” The interviewer and Gomez agreed that the tendency to people-please is “almost impossible” for female performers to avoid. “I think I spent so many years just trying to say the right thing to people for the sake of keeping myself sane,” she said. “That is a violating feeling.”ĭespite the photographers’ clear violation, Gomez said she wasn’t focused on how invasive they were being or addressing the issue at the time. “I remember going to the beach with some family members who were visiting, and we saw, far away, grown men with cameras-taking pictures of a 15-year-old in her swimsuit,” she said. Things only got worse when the paparazzi started following her off-set and took inappropriate pictures when she was still underage. “We were all new to this, and they wanted to say things to the paparazzi, but you can’t, because that’s exactly what the paparazzi want,” she said. Her onscreen brothers, David Henrie and Jake Austin, felt protective and wanted to raise concerns, but had to restrain themselves. In the interview, published on Tuesday, March 9, Gomez said that photographers started showing up to the Wizards set when she was just 15 years old. In a new Vogue cover story, Selena Gomez opened up about being followed by the paparazzi as a teenager, when she was just getting her start on the Disney Channel show, Wizards of Waverly Place. Now, many of today’s young starlets are speaking out. Recent TV specials, like the Framing Britney Spears documentary and Oprah’s interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, have people reexamining the horrible ways that the media and paparazzi have treated women over the years.
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