Selena Gomez is optimistic about becoming a mother, even if it doesn’t happen the way she originally hoped.
“I’ve never said this before, but unfortunately I can’t carry my own children,” Gomez, 32, revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair published Monday, Sept. 9. “I have a lot of medical issues that would be life-threatening for me and the baby. That was something I had to grieve for a long time.”
Despite thinking she would become a mother “like everyone else,” Gomez said she is now “in a much better place.” “I think it’s a blessing that there are wonderful people willing to do surrogacy or adoption, which are huge possibilities for me,” she said. “It made me really grateful for the other avenues for people who are dying to be a mother.
I am one of those people. I’m really excited about what that journey will be like, but it will be a little different. At the end of the day, I don’t care. It will be mine. It will be my baby.”
Gomez has been open about her health journeys with fans over the years, having been diagnosed with lupus in 2013 (she underwent a kidney transplant in 2017) and bipolar disorder in 2018.
The Only Murders in the Building star previously opened up about how her bipolar medication could affect how she starts a family . “That’s a very big, present thing in my life,” she told Rolling Stone in November 2022. “However I’m meant to have them, I’m going to have them. … I think there’s something about me that’s maybe my bipolarity that keeps me humble, in a dark way.”
Becoming a mother is something Gomez has thought about a lot over the years, even declaring her plan to adopt a baby if she was still single by the time she turned 35. “Before I met my boyfriend [ Benny Blanco ], I was single for five years, with the exception of a few dates,” she explained to Vanity Fair . “And I was like, ‘OK, if this is the vibe, then what’s the most important thing to me? Family. ’”