{"id":100242,"date":"2017-03-17T14:13:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T21:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=100242"},"modified":"2017-03-23T17:01:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T00:01:36","slug":"selena-gomez-vogue-april-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/selena-gomez-vogue-april-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez Gets Real in Her First American <em>Vogue<\/em> Cover Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pretty much a known fact that Selena Gomez is the queen of Instagram&#8230;she has over 113 million followers, making her the most followed person on the &#8216;gram. So, of course, we should assume she has social media on lock.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 62.4537037037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BRtGzF7APVs\/\" target=\"_blank\">I want to thank Rob Haskell for writing my story. I was a little nervous at how honest I was but you depicted where I&#8217;m at perfectly. I&#8217;m so grateful @voguemagazine @mertalas @macpiggott \u2764\ufe0f<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2017-03-16T15:55:10+00:00\">Mar 16, 2017 at 8:55am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;d be surprised to learn the toll social media has taken on her mental health. The 24-year-old singer and actress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/selena-gomez-april-cover-interview-mental-health-instagram\" target=\"_blank\">tells all in her first\u00a0<em>Vogue<\/em>\u00a0cover story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As soon as I became the most followed person on Instagram, I sort of freaked out. It had become so consuming to me. It\u2019s what I woke up to and went to sleep to. I was an addict, and it felt like I was seeing things I didn\u2019t want to see, like it was putting things in my head that I didn\u2019t want to care about. I always end up feeling like shit when I look at Instagram. Which is why I\u2019m kind of under the radar, ghosting it a bit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gomez also delves into why she cut two shows from her tour &#8212; the first, due to her diagnosis of lupus and being admitted to the Meadows in Arizona, and second, when she checked herself into a psychiatric facility in Tennessee. She explains that her most recent departure from the spotlight was due to the fact that she lacked the self-esteem and confidence to inspire her fans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was so used to performing for kids. At concerts I used to make the entire crowd raise up their pinkies and make a pinky promise never to allow anybody to make them feel that they weren\u2019t good enough. Suddenly I have kids smoking and drinking at my shows, people in their 20s, 30s, and I\u2019m looking into their eyes, and I don\u2019t know what to say. I couldn\u2019t say, \u2018Everybody, let\u2019s pinky-promise that you\u2019re beautiful!\u2019 It doesn\u2019t work that way, and I know it because I\u2019m dealing with the same shit they\u2019re dealing with. What I wanted to say is that life is so stressful, and I get the desire to just escape it. But I wasn\u2019t figuring my own stuff out, so I felt I had no wisdom to share. And so maybe I thought everybody out there was thinking, &#8216;This is a waste of time.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s Selena up to now? She currently lives in an Airbnb in the Valley, limiting her encounters with fellow celebs. She&#8217;s also allowing herself to take a breather and steer clear of the pressures and time crunch that comes with working on set and in studio. As for Instagram? It&#8217;s now in the hands of her assistant (she doesn&#8217;t even know the password).<\/p>\n<p>Gomez reminds us that\u00a0it&#8217;s OK to be vulnerable. &#8220;We girls, we\u2019re taught to be almost too resilient, to be strong and sexy and cool and laid-back, the girl who\u2019s down. We also need to feel allowed to fall apart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/selena-gomez-april-cover-interview-mental-health-instagram\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"It's pretty much a known fact that Selena Gomez is the queen of Instagram...she has ...","author":1427020,"featured_media":100266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,271,185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17141302\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-17-at-2.12.04-PM-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/17141302\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-17-at-2.12.04-PM.jpg","formated_date":"March 17, 2017","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#e0e812","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1427020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}