Selena Gomez grew up within the highlight, touchdown her first performing gig on the age of 10. By the point she turned 16, she was a well known Disney Channel star with a burgeoning pop music profession. Now in her thirties and one of many world’s most high-profile celebrities, she has her mother and pa to thank for serving to her break into the biz at such a younger age. Right here’s the within scoop on Selena Gomez’s dad and mom, Mandy Teefey and Rick Gomez.
Selena’s Mother and father Received Pregnant With Her As Youngsters
Selena Gomez was born on July 22, 1992. Her Mexican-born dad, Ricardo (Rick) Gomez, and Texas-born mother, Amanda (Mandy) Cornet, had been highschool sweethearts. Mandy was simply 16 years outdated when she gave start to Selena in Grand Prairie, Texas. Rick and Mandy tied the knot quickly after Selena was born however ended up divorcing when their daughter was simply 5 years outdated.
Mandy Primarily Raised Selena After The Divorce
After the younger couple break up, Mandy took on the first accountability of elevating Selena. Now a single mother in her early 20s, Mandy struggled to offer for her daughter. The pair often had monetary troubles and Selena says she remembers feeling resentful and blaming her mother for the difficulties they confronted.
“I blamed my mother lots [for the divorce] as a result of I wished a household so dangerous,” Gomez said in a 2011 E! Entertainment special. “I wished to have my mother and pa collectively. I keep in mind simply being offended with my mother. I nonetheless really feel actually dangerous about that.”
The “Similar Outdated Love” singer says she now realizes how troublesome it will need to have been for her mother to be elevate a baby on her personal at such younger age. “Having me at sixteen needed to have been an enormous accountability,” Selena stated. “My mother gave up every little thing for me and had, like, three jobs. She supported me, sacrificed her life for me.”
Mandy Impressed Selena To Go Into Present Enterprise
Mandy labored on stage productions when Selena was younger, which was what piqued the Solely Murders within the Constructing star’s curiosity in performing. Mandy was totally supportive of her daughter’s desires and started taking her on auditions.
In 2002, a then-10-year-old Selena landed her first massive break as a daily on the favored youngsters’s present, Barney & Buddies. After that job resulted in 2004, the younger actress booked quite a lot of visitor roles, together with a recurring half on the Disney Channel hit, Hannah Montana. In 2007, Selena moved together with her mother to L.A. after profitable the main a part of Alex Russo on a brand new Disney Channel present, Wizards of Waverly Place.
Mandy Married Expertise Supervisor Brian Teefey in 2006
By the point Selena landed her star-making function on Wizards of Waverly Place, she was being professionally managed her by mother and new step-dad, expertise supervisor Brian Teefey. Teefey married Mandy in 2006 and the trio lived collectively in Los Angeles whereas Selena’s profession took off. In 2011, Brian and Mandy discovered they had been anticipating a daughter however ended up dropping the kid in a miscarriage. In June of 2013, Mandy gave start to Selena’s half-sister, a wholesome child woman named Gracie Elliott.
Selena And Mandy Are Identified For Their Shut Relationship, However They Have Reportedly Fallen Out A number of Instances
Selena credit her mother with educating her the best way to navigate working life and deal with grownup obligations at a younger age. “It’s due to [my mom] that I can do issues by myself,” the Spring Breakers star stated in a 2012 interview with Glamour. “I like being skilled. I like displaying up on time. I like being good to individuals, and I do know that I’m reflecting her on the finish of the day.”
However that doesn’t imply Mandy and Selena haven’t butted heads through the years. In 2014, the Princess Safety Program star ended her skilled relationship together with her mom and step-father. Whereas some reports claimed the pop star fired them dad and mom with out discover, Mandy says it was a mutual resolution that was in everybody’s finest curiosity. “We by no means anticipated to handle [Selena] her entire life,” Mandy told Gossip Cop in 2018. “We misplaced household time as a result of the one time we noticed her, we talked enterprise. It was now not enjoyable for any of us, prefer it was when she was youthful and we needed to be together with her as a result of she was a minor.”
In the identical interview, Mandy admitted that she wasn’t thrilled when her daughter reunited with ex Justin Bieber in 2017, however understood that her daughter was all grown up and will make her personal choices. “Selena can dwell her life nonetheless she needs so long as she is blissful, protected, and wholesome,” she stated.
Mandy And Selena Nonetheless Work Collectively
Selena and her mother are nonetheless very shut and have continued to collaborate on tasks. By their manufacturing firm, July Moon Productions, they produced the Netflix sequence 13 Causes Why and the 2020 romantic comedy The Damaged Hearts Gallery.
In 2022, the mom and daughter teamed up with media entrepreneur Daniella Pierson to launch WonderMind, a web site devoted to fostering psychological well being consciousness. “We need to be that place the place individuals really feel snug to speak concerning the issues below the hood,” Selena explained in an interview with Good Morning America. “I really need individuals to be understood and seen and heard. It’s OK to not be OK.”
Rick Was Much less Concerned In Selena’s Life After The Divorce
So what about Selena Gomez’s dad? Based on the “We Don’t Discuss Anymore” singer, he would take her out for dinner when she was a child. “After I was seven, my dad would go to Hooters to look at Spurs video games. However he began noticing that once I would come, with my little pigtails, all of the waitresses could be like, ‘Hey!’” she told Harper’s Bazaar. “So he ended up half spending time with me however with all these cute women coming over. And that type of grew to become our factor.”
Rick finally remarried a lady named Sara and Selena grew to become a step-sister to Sara’s younger son, Marcus. In June of 2014, the couple welcomed Selena’s half-sister, Victoria, into the world.
