She began as a
teenage idol, but this girl was willing to show that she was matured already.
With a hot boyfriend and a role in the new movie, we know she will be
successful.
Selena Gomez has a sweet life. Her
songs usually top the chart; she has appeared in both small and large screens
and she is dating with Justin Bieber – the pop star made students and
middle-age women going crazy. Oh, but she is just 19 years old. You might
extremely envy her to hear those things but at the moment we sat down with
Selena in her home in Los Angeles, those feeling vanished. For one thing, she
was 100% practical. Then we quickly knew how this brown-haired girl worked hard
to reach that position, so any jealousy turned into the respect.
The conflict of a super star life had
against Selena in the beginning. She was born in Texas in a teenage family and grew
in poverty. However since she was a little girl, she had big dreams and strict
rules in work to make sure that she would become a star. “I love concentrating
and working hard”, she said when she sat perfectly in the purple dress. “I want
to do everything right. And I’m always eager to be better.”
Her efforts have been repaid. Last
year, her band (Selena Gomez and the Scene) had two songs from When the Sun
Goes Down won the platinum award and went on tour in the whole country, and
she acted in the first movie which was not aimed to children (Monte Carlo). Of
course, she maintained a romantic relationship with Bieber. Selena revealed how
she became a super star from a provincial girl.
From poor to rich
As we told, Selena was born in Grand
Prairie, Texas by a 17-year-old father and 16-year-old mother. “I would have a
3-year-old child if I gave birth at the age of my mother – it’s so terrible to
me!”, she burst into laugh. They always had to make ends meet. Selena recalled
when her mom’s car was out of fuel on the way to school, and they had to search
pennies under seats to buy much gasoline. “Oh my god, it happened 12 times”,
she reminisced.
Despite the fact that they were poor,
Selena’s mother wanted her daughter to be well-educated. Thus, she took Selena
to concerts, museums and theaters. “I never thought that I would quit Grand
Prairie’s conception if there was not my mother”. Being obsessed by Britney
Spears and Hilary Duff, Selena was focusing on singing and acting while most
girls at that age were still playing Barbie. She desired to stand in the
limelight so much that she begged her mother to allow her to start auditioning.
7 years old, she had a role in Barney
& Friends, which was originally filmed in Texas. In the filming set,
she met her childhood friend who was a pop star later, Demi Lovato. They became
so close that few years later, their families moved to Los Angeles together and
lived in the same house in order to let two girls enter Hollywood. “We didn’t
have much money at that time, so we lived together to share expenses”, Selena
said. “There were 7 girls living in an attic, including sisters and mothers,
and everything. It was really interesting.”
Her friendship with Demi had its ups
and downs. The busy occupation caused them far apart, and recently Lovato
talked about the bipolar disorder (manic-depressive disorder). “That’s when she
and I pursuing different paths, because we noticed who we were. Now, we become
better.”
Moving to California after she had obtained
the lead role in Wizards of Waverly Placeseries of Disney turned out a
wise action. Following the footsteps of her childhood, Selena became a big
star. Nevertheless, she didn’t want to stick to the success in Disney. She
attempted to get a bigger career, so she began to record and accept other roles
to mark herself as something more different than a teenage queen.
In contrast to some actresses were ruined
by their fame, Selena kept herself on the ground. “It’s a flighty industry, and
I want to ensure that I’m not stuck in it. Till now, I’ve done a good thing.”
The top producer of Hollywood, Denise
Di Novi, agreed that she tried to live realistically and she was very lovely.
“You will immediately support and love her. Moreover, she works hard
unbelievably – she reminds me of a racehorse. She knows what she wants and she
is happy the most when she is totally sunk in work”, Di Novi, who worked with
Selena in Ramona and Beezus in 2010 considered. “She has the
sophistication and intelligence of emotions far beyond her age.”
Leighton Meester, who became close to
Selena when they filmed Monte Carlo, thought the same. “I am 24 years
old and live with a 17-year-old girl but I don’t feel that way”, she said. “She
is really wiser than her age. But she is also innocent, and I hope it would
never disappear, as she sees the beauty in every little thing”.
Growing up on screens has many pros
(she earned a lot of money and traveled around the world) and cons (she had the
first kiss in front of 4 cameras – “I’m trembling!”). Currently, Selena is in
the time she tries to erase the teenage image and wants to seriously consider
as an adult. To do that, she is investing in acting more harshly. She was
nominated to play with James Franco and Vanessa Hudgens in Spring Breakers,
the film of the controversy director – Harmony Korine, who wrote the reckless
drama about sex, Kids in 1995.
“I’m choosing the role, movie and
music may be quite different and both of them can make everyone passionate”,
Selena said. “But it is helping me to improve and walk small steps”.
