“I never said it but unfortunately, I will not be able to carry my children. I have several health problems that would put my life and that of the baby in danger.” The revelation of Selena Gomez, American actress and musician born in 1992, is confided in the pages of Vanity Fair America. The health problems of the protagonist of Only murders in the buildinga popular television series for which he received four nominations. Emmyunfortunately, they are not new. Since 2015 we have known that he suffers from lupus, a chronic disease that causes the immune system to produce autoantibodies that, instead of protecting the body from viruses, bacteria and foreign agents, attack the cells and components of the body itself. A situation that has only been manageable for her thanks to careful pharmacological treatment and a very delicate surgical operation that took place in 2017, the kidney transplant offered to her by her friend and colleague Francia Raisa. But not only that, in 2022, in the documentary Selena Gomez: My Mind and Meavailable in Italy on Apple TValso admitted to suffering from bipolar disorder, which is also managed through the use of a number of medications. It is precisely these two problems that are preventing women from giving birth safely today.
The choice is made
“It's a difficult reality to digest – he said in the interview – for which I suffered for a long time. It's not how I imagined it, I thought it would happen naturally, like for many other women. But now I feel much calmer. I consider myself lucky because there are wonderful people who offer the possibility of surrogacy or adoption, two paths that I could take. It made me appreciate even more the different paths for those who want to become a mother and I am one of those people.” In fact, Selena Gomez is not giving up and will continue on a safer path to becoming a mother, just like the desire of her and her current partner, producer Benny Blanco, who has publicly declared his desire to become a father. However, the choice now appears not only clear but also made: “I am excited about the journey that awaits me, even if it will be a little different than what I had imagined. In the end, it doesn't matter how it goes. He will always be mine, my baby.”