Selena Gomez shares personal struggles with lupus and motherhood in recent interview

Selena Gomez spoke openly about her desire to start a family with her boyfriend Benny Blanco in the future.

Selena Gomez is hopeful about becoming a mom someday, but in a recent interview, the singer-actress disclosed that she won’t be able to experience pregnancy and childbirth due to medical complications.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, published on Monday (Sept. 9), Gomez spoke openly about her desire to start a family with her boyfriend Benny Blanco in the future. However, she shared that it won’t happen “necessarily [be] the way I envisioned it.”

“I haven’t ever said this,” she revealed. “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.”

“I thought it would happen the way it happens for everyone,” said Gomez, who has been candid about her battle with Lupus since announcing her diagnosis to Billboard in 2015. “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.”

“I’m excited for what that journey will look like, but it’ll look a little different,” she continued. “At the end of the day, I don’t care. It’ll be mine. It’ll be my baby.”

The interview comes about four months after Blanco, who has been dating the Rare Beauty founder since July 2023, expressed to Howard Stern that having kids with Gomez is his “next goal” in life. “It’s always a topic of conversation to me every day,” the producer added during the interview.

“He can’t lie,” Gomez told Vanity Fair about her boyfriend’s candid radio appearance. “After the interview, I was dying laughing. Like, ‘Anything else you wanted to put out there?’”

“I’ve never been loved this way,” she said of Blanco. “He’s just been a light. A complete light in my life. He’s my best friend. I love telling him everything.”

The interview comes during a busy period for Gomez, who recently crossed into billionaire status, thanks to her makeup brand, investments, and work in music and acting, according to a Sept. 6 report by Bloomberg.