Yahoo Lifestyle Selena Gomez Explains Why She Wouldn’t Choose Childhood Fame for Herself
Selena Gomez memorably got her start on Barney & Friends at age 10, then went on to star in Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place throughout her teen years. While the Emilia Pérez actor, one of ELLE’s Women in Hollywood honorees, assures the outlet she is grateful for her career, looking back now, she would have admittedly started in the industry a little later.
“I have no regrets and I have a fantastic family and there were rules laid down by my parents and I’m appreciative of that,” Sel said of being a child star. “However, I don’t think I would’ve done it very young if I was thinking of myself now. There were a lot of things that I felt stunted by. Then adding a lot of pressure from a lot of people didn’t help me develop a sense of self in my twenties. It was a very difficult time. I live with it every day. I try my hardest to stay positive about everything and focus on things like this [movie] that really make me happy. But I would just say maybe wait and have a little bit of a life.”
During her convo with the mag, she also reflected on her most challenging project, Spring Breakers, “because I was only 18 or 19.” “It was the first thing I did right after my Disney show, and it was such a crazy detour. That’s when I knew I was going to fall in love with filmmakers and really gritty, fun stuff that was a little too graphic,” she noted.
Read Selena’s full interview here with her Emilia Pérez castmates and fellow honorees Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón.
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