Actor and singer Selena Gomez has surprised her Instagram followers by revealing she hasn’t used the social media platform in four and a half years.
Speaking on Good Morning America, the superstar referenced her decision to spend less time in the app - and the entire internet itself - and the mental health benefits of doing so.
She said: “It has changed my life completely. I am happier, I am more present, I connect more with people. I understand how powerful the internet is, and in so many ways it’s done the best things for the world.
“But for me, I get to my news that is actually important...through people in my life.”
Since 2017 Gomez has curated her social media posts, but hires a team of people to run her accounts.
Gomez made the decision after struggling with negativity on social media apps such as Instagram, where she currently has more than 310 million followers.
Now she is launching a mental fitness company called Wondermind, in collaboration with her own mother Mandy Teefey, and businesswoman Daniella Pierson.
She explained to GMA how it offers free online resources, content, tools and exercises - all “vetted by an expert committee of the world’s best psychiatrists, therapists and social workers.”
According to Pierson, the platform seeks to “normalise talking about these mental illnesses that maybe people thought they knew about, but they actually manifest in different ways in different people.”
Speaking to Instyle earlier this year, Gomez said Instagram influenced her beauty expectations, and how she appeared in public.
She admitted that the app even became her “whole world”.
Gomez added: “The older I got, the more I evolved and realized that I needed to take control of what I was feeling. I wanted to be able to look in the mirror and feel confident to be who I am,” she said.
“Taking a break from social media was the best decision that I’ve ever made for my mental health.”
It’s not the first time Gomez has been transparent about her negative relationship with social media, as she previously revealed that as soon as she “became the most followed person on Instagram, I sort of freaked out”.
She told Vogue in 2017: “It had become so consuming to me. It’s what I woke up to and went to sleep to. I was an addict, and it felt like I was seeing things I didn’t want to see, like it was putting things in my head that I didn’t want to care about. I always end up feeling like sh*t when I look at Instagram.”
Los Angeles, Actor-singer Selena Gomez says taking a four-year break from Instagram was one of the best decisions she made for her mental health. The 31-year-old artiste, who is the most followed woman on the platform with 429 million followers, said staying away from social media made her "happier".
Gomez claims the break lasted far longer than that. In an interview on Good Morning America in April 2022, she maintained she didn't go on the internet for “four and a half years.” She probably meant three and a half, considering it had only been three and a half years since her Instagram announcement.
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But her social media breaks go back to 2016 and 2017 when she was going through mental health struggles, and recovering from surgery following her kidney transplant. In September 2018 she also decided to focus on herself and take a social media break following negative comments.
“I'm off social for a while. I'm focusing on what really matters,” Gomez posted on Instagram Wednesday. She ran the caption with a photo of her boyfriend, the music producer Benny Blanco, and two unidentified children. The break lasted approximately eighteen hours.
Recently, Selena Gomez took to her Instagram Stories to announce that she was deleting her account. Prior to that, she talked about the Israel-Palestine conflict and condemned the violence against the civilians. The Hollywood pop icon said he was taking a break from social media.
“You're right, but I am going to want to chill, because I'm tired.” Gomez has opened up about the fact that she's always wanted to be an actress and that singing was never her main path; instead, it was something that was pushed on her since she was a Disney star.
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