Good for her! Selena Gomez got candid about the idea of falling in love — and how hurtful past experiences won’t keep her from opening her heart again.
06.11.2022 - 01:39 / usmagazine.com
A special tribute! After undergoing a kidney transplant, Selena Gomez gave her new organ a sweet nickname.
“I named it after Fred Armisen because I love Portlandia,” the Only Murders in the Building star, 30, told Rolling Stone in an interview published on Thursday, November 3. “I’ve never met him, but I’m secretly hoping he finds that out just because I want him to be like, ‘That’s weird.’”
While the 55-year-old Saturday Night Live alum — who cocreated the sketch comedy series with Carrie Brownstein — has not addressed Gomez’s tribute, she has been candid about her health journey through the years.
“I’m very aware some of my fans had noticed I was laying low for part of the summer and questioning why I wasn’t promoting my new music, which I was extremely proud of. So I found out I needed to get a kidney transplant due to my lupus and was recovering. It was what I needed to do for my overall health,” the Rare Beauty founder wrote via Instagram in September 2017, two years after announcing her diagnosis.
As Gomez searched for a transplant donor, she discovered longtime friend Francia Raisa was a match.
“My kidneys were shutting down. My mentality was to keep going,” Gomez explained during a September 2017 episode of the Today show of her “life or death” operation. “[Francia] lived with me during this interesting time where my kidneys were just done. That was it, and I didn’t want to ask a single person in my life. The thought of asking someone to do that was really difficult for me. She volunteered and did it. And let alone someone wanting to volunteer, it is incredibly difficult to find a match. The fact that she was a match, I mean that’s unbelievable. That’s not real.”
The How I Met Your Father actress, 34, was happy to
Good for her! Selena Gomez got candid about the idea of falling in love — and how hurtful past experiences won’t keep her from opening her heart again.
Forever friends? Fans speculated that Selena Gomez and Francia Raisa — who donated her kidney to the singer in 2017 — had a falling out after the pair seemingly threw shade at one another on social media.
Uh oh. It looks like Selena Gomez and Francia Raisa are seriously feuding!
Maybe she wasn’t speaking literally. Selena Gomez clapped back after speculation that her comment about Taylor Swift being her “only friend” in Hollywood was a dig against pal Francia Raisa.
It appears Francia Raisa isn’t too happy with Selly right now!
The feelings are mutual!
Motherhood on her mind. Selena Gomez revealed that — although her bipolar disorder might make it impossible for her to carry children — she still plans to start a family one day.
Jelena fans, listen up!
Back in 2017, Selena Gomez revealed that she had undergone a kidney transplant. Now she’s let it be known that her new(ish) kidney has a name.
Selena Gomez revealed that she may never be able to carry children because of her bipolar medications — but she still plans on becoming a mom.
Long before Selena Gomez became a household name, she was the daughter of Mandy Teefey (née Cornett) and Ricardo Gomez.
A look inside the complicated life of Selena Gomez. The superstar documented her career and health journey from 2016 to 2020 in Apple TV+’s My Mind & Me, which starts streaming on Friday, November 4.