Selena Gomez Hates Being an Instagram Star
Being a star Instagram can be hard sometimes, just ask Selena Gomez.
The star made a serious confession on the cover of Vogue’s April issue: “As soon as I became the most followed person on Instagram, I sort of freaked out. It had become so consuming to me. It’s what I woke up to and went to sleep to. I was an addict, and it felt like I was seeing things I didn’t want to see, like it was putting things in my head that I didn’t want to care about. I always end up feeling like s–t when I look at Instagram,” she stated. “Which is why I’m kind of under the radar, ghosting it a bit.”
Apparently, Selena deleted the app from her phone and forgot the password. Instead, her assistant posts on her behalf (her way of “detoxing”), a move she made following her 2016 stint in rehab.
“People so badly wanted me to be authentic, and when that happened, finally, it was a huge release,” she said. “I’m not different from what I put out there. I’ve been very vulnerable with my fans, and sometimes I say things I shouldn’t. But I have to be honest with them. I feel that’s a huge part of why I’m where I am.”
Her journey of finding herself is a message she tries to convey to her fans, especially at her concerts.
“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’t good enough,” she reflected. “Suddenly I have kids smoking and drinking at my shows, people in their 20s, 30s, and I’m looking into their eyes, and I don’t know what to say. I couldn’t say, ‘Everybody, let’s pinky-promise that you’re beautiful!’ It doesn’t work that way, and I know it because I’m dealing with the same s–t they’re 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’t figuring my own stuff out, so I felt I had no wisdom to share. And so maybe I thought everybody out there was thinking, ‘This is a waste of time.'”
Read the full interview at Vogue.