{"id":118464,"date":"2024-09-20T21:01:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T21:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/20\/selena-gomez-on-decision-to-share-she-cannot-carry-a-child-power-in-being-vulnerable\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T21:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T21:01:46","slug":"selena-gomez-on-decision-to-share-she-cannot-carry-a-child-power-in-being-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/20\/selena-gomez-on-decision-to-share-she-cannot-carry-a-child-power-in-being-vulnerable\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez on decision to share she cannot carry a child: &#8220;Power in being vulnerable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-20\/Getty_SelenaGomez_052424.png\" alt><figcaption>Neilson Barnard\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Selena Gomez<\/strong> is opening up about about her decision to share that she cannot carry children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I truly believe that there is power in being vulnerable and telling people when you need help or when you want help &#8212; that is not shameful,&#8221; Selena said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/selena-gomez-not-a-victim\/\">in a video<\/a> taken during a recent Women in Film event in California.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So yeah, I shared that I can&#8217;t carry a child,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Yeah, I shared that I have bipolar. F*** off. That&#8217;s what my life is. That&#8217;s who I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The singer and actress also said she wants to be an advocate for women, and that&#8217;s the reason she is so open. She then urged everyone in attendance at the dinner, including her younger sister <strong>Gracie<\/strong>, to never let anyone tell them they aren&#8217;t a good person.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Screw anyone who tells you you&#8217;re a victim,&#8221; Selena said. &#8220;You&#8217;re a survivor in my book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Selena previously shared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/selena-gomez-cover-interview\"><em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a> that she&#8217;s unable to carry a pregnancy to term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t ever said this, but I unfortunately can\u2019t carry my own children,&#8221; Selena said. &#8220;I have a lot of medical issues that would put my life and the baby\u2019s in jeopardy. That was something I had to grieve for a while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neilson Barnard\/Getty Images Selena Gomez is opening up about about her decision to share that she cannot carry children. &#8220;I truly believe that there is power in being vulnerable and telling people when you need help or when you want help &#8212; that is not shameful,&#8221; Selena said in a<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/20\/selena-gomez-on-decision-to-share-she-cannot-carry-a-child-power-in-being-vulnerable\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}