Selena Gomez Says This Social Media Move ＂Saved My Life＂ ｜ E! News

Selena Gomez opens up about a healthy social media move that saved her life. Even though Selena has millions of followers on social media, including 268 million on Instagram and 65.2 million followers on Twitter, what she doesn't have is any of these apps on her phone. Selena, who at one point was the most followed person on the gram, said in a new interview for WWD's Beauty Inc. issue, I do all of my posts through texting my assistant in the caption that I want. In fact, Selena actually deleted these apps three years ago. She continued, I say that because that's a huge, significant part of why I feel like I've been as healthy as I've been. I'm completely unaware of actually what's going on in pop culture, and that makes me really happy. And maybe that doesn't make everybody else happy, but for me, it's really saved my life. So what led her to such a drastic social media cleanse? She explained that it is just too much information. She said, This is too much of my personal life spread out everywhere, and it just felt uncontrollable. I felt like my thoughts and everything I was consuming revolved around a million different other people in the world saying good things and bad things. And I just thought, why would I? I don't get anything from it. Nothing is giving me life. And I just snapped, and I was over it. While Selena initially wanted to delete her accounts altogether, her team convinced her to keep them. She added, I'm happy I didn't because it is such a wonderful way to stay connected. When I do go on, it makes me happy to know I'm just being completely honest and being true to who I am. And Selena also takes comfort in knowing that she's using her platform for good. Opening up about her own mental health, she discussed her battles with anxiety and depression, and in 2020, she shared that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Selena also shared that she felt immense pressure to be a good role model while growing up, adding, I didn't know that I was going through my own journey with mental health at the time, so it was really confusing growing up. And once people created this narrative of my life, I realized I can't be quiet anymore. And as she's grown, Selena has learned that the only opinion of herself that matters is her own. She said, It feels good to finally not care as much as I did. I think of how many years I wasted just caring so much about what people thought and it was just suffocating. What I love so far about getting older is that I'm starting to just really be happy with who I am, know what I want, and know what I don't want.