Selena Gomez

Also Known As:
Sel, Selly

Height:
5' 5"

Hometown:
Grand Prairie

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Bio:
Selena Gomez (born Selena Marie Gomez
in Grand Prairie, Texas on July 22, 1992)
is an American actress and singer.
Gomez is best-known for playing Alex
Russo in the popular Disney Channel
show Wizards of Waverly Place , and for
being a superstar pop singer. She has
also been the lead in movies like Ramona
and Beezus, Monte Carlo, Spring Breakers,
and The Revised Fundamentals
of Caregiving . Selena also fronted the
popular band Selena Gomez & The Scene.
Two of the band’s albums — Kiss &
Tell and A Year Without Rain —
were RIAA gold certified. Selena broke
out on her own in 2013 with Stars Dance .
Behind singles “Come & Get It” and “Slow
Down,” the album was also RIAA gold
certified. In 2015, Gomez dropped the hit
single “The Heart Wants What It Wants”.

She gained major popularity with her
huge 2016 album Revival , and launched a
world tour. Selena suffers from lupus,
and autoimmune disease, and announced
that she would be suspending her tour to
care for herself in August 2016; she
entered rehab for several months. Selena
executive produced the hit Netflix show
13 Reasons Why .

Best Known For:
Selena Gomez is best known for her role
on Wizards of Waverly Place , her music
career, and dating Justin Bieber .

Personal Life:
After being linked to Nick Jonas,
Gomez entered into a very high-profile
relationship with fellow tween sensation
Justin Bieber in 2011. The couple dated
for over two years, and despite a few
reunions in 2013, they remain broken
up. Gomez moved on to EDM DJ Zedd in
early 2015, but they split in April of that
year. In Jan. 2017, it was confirmed that
she was dating The Weeknd after they
were photographed kissing on a date
night. On September 14, 2017, Selena took
to Instagram to announce that she had a
kidney transplant over the summer due
to complications with her Lupus. Her
best friend, Francia Raisa , donated her
kidney to Sel, whose went into
emergency surgery after going into
kidney failure at The Weeknd’s concert
in Chicago. Her boyfriend rescheduled
his tour dates surrounding her surgery.