Selena Gomez Opens Up About Being Unable to Carry Her Own Children: 'That Was Something I Had to Grieve'

Mar. 15, 2025

Selena Gomezis opening up about her future motherhood plans.

Speaking toVanity Fairfor the outlet’s October issue, published Monday, Sept. 9, the actress and singer, 32, explained that she’s unable to carry her children.

Gomez has previously spoken about suffering fromcomplications with lupus, which she wasdiagnosed within 2015. She also revealed her bipolar diagnosis in April 2020 during an episode ofMiley Cyrus' Instagram Live showBright Minded.

She added, “[But] 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.”

Selena Gomez at the Season 4 premiere of Hulu’s ‘Only Murders In The Building’ at Paramount Studios on August 22, 2024.Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty

Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty

This isn’t the first time Gomez has discussed her desire tobecome a parent sometime in the future.

In a November 2022 outlet, Gomez recalled crying in her car and thinking about the fact that the two medications she is taking for her bipolar disorder will likely make it that she won’t ever be able to carry her own children.

“That’s a very big, big, present thing in my life,” Gomez told the outlet, before noting that she is hopeful she will still become a mom through other means in the years to come.

Selena Gomez at at the Bisha Hotel during the Toronto International Film Festival 2024 on September 8, 2024.KC Armstrong/Deadline via Getty

KC Armstrong/Deadline via Getty

“However I’m meant to have them, I will,” she added on the prospect of having children.

According to doctor-reviewed article fromWebMD, bipolar disorder medications have the potential to cause birth issues including neural tube defects, heart defects as well as developmental delay or neurobehavioral problems. However, some physicians recommend staying on such medications through childbirth, as bipolar symptoms can worsen during pregnancy.

Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez at the 2023 Emmy Awards.Jordan Strauss/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images

Jordan Strauss/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images

Elsewhere in herVanity Fairstory, theOnly Murders in the Buildingstar also spoke about her boyfriend Benny Blanco, who sheconfirmed as her beauin December 2023.

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

Speaking about when Blanco, 36, said he wanted to marry her onTheHoward Stern Showback in May, she added, “After the interview, I was dying laughing. Like, ‘Anything else you wanted to put out there?’ ”

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“I love fresh foods and stuff. I’m starting to get into that kind of because of my boyfriend,” she said. “Just being in the garden and picking food that I’m going to be able to cook with. It sounds so silly and minuscule but the older you get the more that you realize that it’s OK to just be simple and have simplicity.”

source: people.com