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The star, who broke out on Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place, has enchanted fans since launching a music career in 2009. Gomez, 30, dropped three albums with her former band, Selena Gomez & The Scene, all of which hit the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart, per Billboard. Striking out solo a few years later, Gomez’s three albums that followed – Stars Dance (2013), Revival (2015) and Rare (2020) — all debuted at No. 1.
Gomez is the most-followed woman on Instagram with a whopping 392 million followers; on Spotify, she has drawn a following of more than 355 million monthly listeners.
In celebration of her Latin heritage, Gomez dropped her first Spanish-language project with the EP Revelación in March 2021. The record netted her a Latin Music Award for favorite video and a Grammy nomination (her first!) for best Latin pop album at the 2022 ceremony.
As someone in the spotlight since she was a teenager, Gomez has been open about her struggles with depression and powerfully uses her platform to shed light on the importance of caring for one’s mental health.
While launching her inclusive makeup line, Rare Beauty, in September 2021, she committed to raising $100 million in the next 10 years to provide mental health resources for underserved communities.
“It can take a toll on you, for sure. We’re not all a certain way, and we’re not meant to be,” Gomez told PEOPLE in December 2020 of the pressure to be perfect. “It’s fair to say that I am 1000 percent on the journey with the consumers. It’s not easy for everybody, and I want people to know they’re not alone.”
More recently, Gomez has starred on Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building with Martin Short and Steve Martin — which has a third season officially underway.