Selena Gomez wore an unprecedented four outfits in London. Selena usually wears cute stuff, but she’s never been a major style junkie. This red dress is Preen, and it’s my favorite out of all of them. She also wore a structural white coatdress, which was beautiful. Then came a casual black jeans outfit with heels and a funky hat. There’s also one last outfit — a little black EDUN sweater dress with a red high-neck collar — which you can see at the Mail. All four of the outfits are polished and very grown up, which is a dual image Selena wants to present. That is, someone who is free from Swaggy and moving into adulthood.
Selena recently gave an interview to Extra about the body-shaming she endured. She says that episode inspired this new album:
On her Revival album: “I was getting a lot of hate for my body and ‘you’re gaining weight,’ and so I was in Mexico and I was just feeling all of this stuff and I would be lying to you if I said it didn’t kind of hurt my feelings, but I kind of channeled that into my music. I felt like everybody was saying so much and I’m like, ‘I need to say something…’ [The songs I wrote] on the record are ‘Survivors,’ ‘Kill ’em with Kindness,’ and ‘Rise.’ It’s, it’s all geared towards me trying to be heard, and I think this is the best thing that I’ve ever done in my whole career and I’m so excited.”
She deleted Instagram from her phone: “I think it’s so hard, now more than ever… I’ve had to delete Instagram off my phone for a week and just kind of not get on it, ’cause it is crazy and I couldn’t imagine being 13 and dealing with it. My only compassion towards kids is like, ‘You can’t listen to it, you have to know that you’re made individually to be who you are and you should just be able to find your happiness.’ It’s so hard to say, ’cause I’ve been doing it myself, you know?”
[From Extra]
Well, it sucks that Selena had to go through body shaming, but I’m not surprised it happened. The internet is so cruel, especially when it comes to women’s bodies. Selena looks stunning, and she’s always been beautiful. I’m more concerned with her staying healthy and away from Justin Bieber. She seems to do very well when he’s not influencing her, so I hope she stays strong. The stuff she says about social media’s effect on kids makes a lot of sense. I’m pretty scrupulous about checking out what my daughter does online because I don’t want her to see too much thigh gap nonsense (although she’s already seen some of it and brought it up).
Anyway, Selena’s fashion is on point in London, so which outfit is your favorite?
Photos courtesy of Getty & WENN
She looks great in the hat!
I’m jealous because I could NEVER pull off a hat like that. That whole outfit with the hat is very cool. Actually, I like everything she’s wearing here.
She’s a beautiful woman for sure.
She reminds me of a young Catherine Zeta Jones. She looks great in all of the photos, but I think the white coat is my favorite look! Would love to have that myself!
There’s also the option of not sharing endless pictures of yourself on the internet. You can delete instagram for good, not just for a week, and live a happy life.
When you have public accounts that you use to share images of yourself not really doing anything but just posing in skimpy outfits you do invite people to comment on your looks. Some will have nice things to say, others won’t.
If you don’t mind people telling you how you’ve lost weight then you need to be able to deal with comments about your weight gain.
This! People can be cruel, but also hypocritical. When you post like 50 pictures of yourself in a swimsuit in sexy poses, you want an opinion, and a good one. This instagram kids are insecure, but also narcissistic. I don’t buy any of this acceptance talk.
I agree- if I were a celebrity I would not have public accounts, or expect people to not comment on photos I shared.
But I think in this case people were commenting on paparazzi photographs of her.
Yep. You just can’t be fragile if you’re a celebrity. That doesn’t mean that I condone people being assholes, but I do think that you can avoid that entirely by banning social media.
For instance, I don’t have an Instagram account, but my cat does. So far he hasn’t received a lot of fat shaming from his cat and dog friends but if that were to ever happen, I wouldn’t hesitate to pull the plug 😉
I would love to see your cat!
My dog has one too! But I don’t. My FB account is private. I don’t need people’s opinions of my looks/body!
Except the comments don’t just come from sexy selfies, but from paparazzi pics, concert photos, and red carpet pics.
I also like the photo with the hat
I think she’s talking about the pictures of her in a too tiny pink bikini. She honestly just needed a larger size because she looked fine to me otherwise. Although on second though, now it does seem like she did drop some weight from then. (How do these people drop weight so quickly? It’s taking me forever). Whatever it is, she’s looking great now. I love every outfit she’s been wearing in these pictures.
She may be my fave of the Taylor squad because a) they actually were friends before this dumb squad thing started and b) she’s often just doing her own thing instead of being a hanger on.
I think being a naturally lithe, young thing helps. 22 year old me lost weight no worries, 35 year old me fights for every pound.
I could not be famous and run my own social media. I’d hand it off to a few assistants because I haven no desire to sift through 644243 comments from Beliebers and people with nothing better to do than to call me fat.
She looks great, love her outfits!
I feel for her , but I’m always surprised these people who are in the spotlight get so hurt by it. Surely they should expect things like that to happen? Maybe because I was fat from the age of 13 up until a year ago, but you just get numb to those comments and they don’t hurt anymore. I’m surprised people who have been in the spotlight for so long aren’t the same.
Also the reason she gets so many comments about her looks is because she has nothing else. She doesn’t have any other talent, like Adele for an example so that her looks wouldn’t matter.
She did lose a lot of weight lately.
Yeah, but trust me when I say that some of the comments went much further than a simple “She’s fat”. There were a bunch of comparison photos of her next to animals (in which she was tagged in, so that comes up as a notification).
You get numb to it, but after a while all the comments accumulate.
People always go further with insults when you’re fat. It is what it is.
Even talented artists like Adele, Jennifer Hudson, and Kelly Clarkson get those comments. I don’t think these people really factor in whether or not who they’re talking about is talented.
I have no social media whatsoever, if one doesn’t count Celebitchy. It’s just never interested me to “connect and/or share” with people I’m not terribly interested in. I’ve never needed to see my number of “friends/followers” growing, either, or sought anyone’s validation. The dramas I’ve seen and heard about that occur on these sites, and the grief brought to people by rude, threatening, nasty, vile comments has put me off for life. Several of my friends have deleted their accounts due to such things, or even just because they were sick of dealing with the memememe and mykidmykidmykid comments and the oversharing and/or unfounded nasty stories about others. And we’re grown ups. As a teacher, I see the effects on many of my pupils who are only primary/elementary school age, when awful comments – innocent or otherwise – are posted on their walls. Despite my advice to just stay off these sites, and actually interact with their real-life family, friends and acquaintances, I can see online life is so ingrained in them that they’d see it as impossible to give up or even modify. I guess (a lot of) their parents aren’t much help, since they are just as addicted and part of the whole scene, too. I don’t have any answers.
I don’t know too much about Selena Gomez, but always found her to be so pretty. I love the jeans and hat outfit, and those sunglasses are just my sort. I hope she stays away from that Bieberbabytwat, too.
I get what you’re saying, but frankly,it comes across as a little judgy to those of us who do partake in social media. I have instagram and Facebook, and they’re just a fun way to connect to people in our lives that we don’t get you see everyday.
She is such a gorgeous young woman… I really hope she knows that, and the fact that she will still be gorgeous despite a few pounds more or less.
The outfits are great but the stilettos and those awful platforms with the white dress… Yikes.
Agree with all the above comments, just stay the heck off all the platforms and stop posting selfies in skimpy outfits. Not excusing the trolls or the hurtful comments, but you can’t teach manners and kindness to online strangers, the only thing you can do is get yourself out of the game.
I follow way too many gorgeous models on Instagram (who seem to live all year somewhere on a beach in a bikini), and it’s depressing haha. I think with all the pressure to be perfect and all these “perfect” people on Instagram creates people like Kylie Jenner, who had to mutate to fit in.
And add to that the fact that people only share the best things that happen to them on social media… and make up others… and pretend… it’s really not the healthiest place.
I love that hat! She looks cute but she always comes across as a little girl playing dress-up. And the whole point of Instagram is to share photos; if you are constantly and only sharing pics of yourself, you will get both negative and positive comments.
If anything, people need to get some perspective. Not everyone will like you, deal with it.
I love her first two outfits. Very grown up and classic. Hate the third look, but I think almost everyone looks stupid in hats (sorry), I’m over stilettos with jeans and that looks like a members only jacket. But she’s definitely coming into her own.
How anyone can look at this young woman and criticize her weight makes no sense. The internet would be a much nice place to be if there was less anonymity.
Well if her looks are being criticized then 99% of all people would be as well if they were put on display. She is too adorable. I love love love the last shot!
I think for your average 13 year old girl, the worst part of Instagram is that she can see all the parties and other fun stuff she wasn’t invited to. It really bothers my daughter when she is left out. She has deleted and reloaded that app more times than I can say.
I think social media is unhealthy for a lot of people. When it starts to make you feel bad about yourself, it is time to get rid of it.
I love Selena. I took my then 9 year old niece to see her a few years back and she was a fantastic performer. The screaming pre-teens loved her and I left being a bit of a fan. Every single one of these outfits is amazing. She looks beautiful, young and fresh. I feel bad for her but the internet is a nasty, nasty place. People are nasty, nasty too. I don’t know when it became okay to publicly ridicule people for what they look like. Whatever happened to the saying “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”? It’s fine to feel a particular way about someone’s looks or their weight but why do you have to tear that person down? Oh yes, that’s right, to build yourself up. Something bullies have been doing for all eternity.
It’s easy to get away from internet bullying and internet criticism…it’s called “staying off the internet”. In my day, we got bullied right to our faces, it was horrible, school was hell. I still had to go every day though…no way around it. I stayed strong. The problem today is kids are raised with this “everyone is a winner” attitude. They are not developing coping skills or tough skin. The other issue is that EVERYONE thinks it’s ok to point out another person’s flaws. Back when I was a kid, we had one or two school bullies…now you have hundreds of them at every school. Parents please do a better job of raising your kids, or don’t have any.
I agree. I dislike how in kids sport now a days everyone a winner. My feelings is what’s the point of working hard to get better if you going to get a trophy anyway. To me social media plays a part in today’s kids not having coping skills. Like you said in the past school was horrible, but you got a break from it at home. Nowadays kids don’t get that break because you get a$$wholes what post sh*t on social media, YouTube for attention. I completely agree that parents need to do a better job of raise their kids.
Glad to see she’s in a better place now. And she looks great! I’m rooting for her.