Posted on 09/13/2024 2:02:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Selena Gomez "can't carry" children due to medical reasons.
The Wizards of Waverly Place actress, 32, recently said she was planning to adopt a baby before she met her music producer boyfriend Benny Blanco, 36, who she has been dating since 2023. She has now revealed she has had to "grieve" her inability to naturally become a mother.
She told Vanity Fair: "I haven't ever said this, but I unfortunately can't carry my own children.
"I have a lot of medical issues that would put my life and the baby's in jeopardy. That was something I had to grieve for a while."
Selena went on about how she is still determined to become a mum in a "different" way: "It's not necessarily the way I envisioned it. I thought it would happen the way it happens for everyone.
"I'm in a much better place with that. I find it a blessing that there are wonderful people willing to do surrogacy or adoption, which are both huge possibilities for me.
"It made me really thankful for the other outlets for people who are dying to be mums. I'm one of those people. I'm excited for what that journey will look like, but it'll look a little different."
She added surrogacy or adoption would still mean she would be a mum, saying:
"At the end of the day, I don't care. It'll be mine. It'll be my baby."
In 2013, Selena was diagnosed with lupus and four years later successfully received a kidney transplant.
She told Time magazine about how she resigned herself to being a single mum before she got together with Benny: "I was alone for five years and I got really used to it. A lot of people are afraid of being alone and I probably tortured myself in my head for like two years being alone, and then I kind of accepted it."
Selena added she then "came up with my plan" — which was for her to adopt at the age of 35 if she "had not met anyone".
She said about things changing when she met Benny: "It just happens when you least expect it."
Selena took her romance with Benny, born Benjamin Levine, public in December, and he has told how his "next goal" is to have children with the actress.
He said on The Howard Stern Show: "That's my next goal, to check the box (of having a family.)
"I have a ton of godkids; I've got a ton of nephews. I love being around kids."
I bet she’s pro-life after her experiences
I wish her well. It’s a painful issue.
The latest AGI (planned parenthood) survey of abortive women found that almost all believe that killing a baby is wrong but not as bad as letting a desperate childless couple raise the child instead.
What a sick devaluing of human life. I hope Gomez realizes how wrong it is for these precious babies to be thrown in the yrash.
But thankfully our more progressive friends have convinced me that even as a man I CAN have a baby.
When I look down at my stomach, I think maybe I'm already pregnant, but then I remember it's just a beer belly.
Special blessing from God, though of course it seems like a tragedy. Embrace it as a blessing. What does He want you to do this?
Wonder if she’ll get woke hate for supporting natural conception?
Dude, It takes a hell of a lot more than checking a box if you want to be a father.
But I give him credit he is on the right track and will quickly learn just how silly that statement was.
I didn’t see she had an abortion. Did I miss something, or it’s generally known?
ROTFLMAO
I strongly doubt she’s ever had an abortion. I’m just saying that she and other infertile women must be appalled that so many women think it better to kill their child than let a loving family have the joy of raising the child.
Or, complications from too many abortions?
She was joined by former gubernatorial candidate of Georgia Stacey Abrams as part of the She Se Puede Latinas Make a Difference Tour 2020.
Unnecessary speculation.
I dont think she is infertile. I think a baby would be a great risk to her baby and herself.
She has lupus nephritis. Has had a kidney transplant. Chemotherapy.
It wouldn’t surprise me if she also has or gets Sjogren’s and any number of possible auto immune conditions.
Her body is a wreck.
I have a body that suffers autoimmune conditions and while she is much younger than I am I applaud her for the hard work it takes to do what she does in her daily business life. It’s hard for a healthy person.
She is a liberal Democrat who went on tour with Stacey Abrams.
exactly my first thought as well
She has lupus and has had a kidney transplant.
This USMale can help her with that ...
lol.
So it’s okay to assume she’s had enough abortions to make her sterile and post your musings ona public board?
Cmon.
She has been an abortion activist for many years, even promoting the “1973” necklace to raise money for it.
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