Selena Gomez just released her latest album titled “Revival” on October 9 and it was a fitting reminder to the medical condition that she has recently gone through which she has kept secret for a long time and only officially made public recently.
Ironically, it was also on the same day of the launching of her album that Selena decided to bare everything about the medical ordeal that she had to hurdle and survived.
In her tell-all interview with Ellen DeGeneres on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Selena revealed that she was previously diagnosed to have lupus and she kept it from the public for a few years, details E! Online.
She also made the same disclosure to Billboard magazine in an interview before making the same revelations to Ellen.
The 23-year-old songstress said that after being diagnosed with lupus, she has undergone chemotherapy and said that it was actually the reason why she took a break from her music career a few years back.
She said she really like to tell the public about her medical condition then because the rumors that went around were saying that she was under rehabilitation for some kind of drug addiction. But she was not, explaining that she locked herself away from the public view until she was ready, confident, and comfortable again.
Lupus is a category of illnesses that strike far more women than men. It is one of several other autoimmune diseases that are relatively rare and affect only eight percent of the population, details Today.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 78% of those who develop such kind of diseases are women.
The perfect opportunity
Selena explained to Ellen that she has decided to keep her disease a secret for three years because baring it in public would only complicate things for her.
She said that she also did not understand the repercussions of her medical condition so she wanted to keep it private. It is good that through treatment, she was able to survive and overcome her disease.
The launching of her latest album, fittingly titled “Revival” became the perfect opportunity for Selena to come clean about everything. She said that it was her moment because she can honestly relate to people already.
She also talked about how a photo of her in a bikini made its way to the internet and people were saying that she gained weight and she was even called fat. Selena admitted to Ellen that it was the first time in her life that she was called fat.
Not letting detractors get through her
Many were alluding also that because she has gained weight, she is also a mess and has gone off the deep end. While she admits being hurt by the criticisms, she did not care at all. Selena did not just roll over and die but instead shared the picture of herself to let everyone know that she was happy and confident with her appearance.
She also told her detractors that they cannot annoy her and bring her down. So that’s when she decided to post a picture of her happy self because she does not want the story that her detractors got the better of her.
Late last month, Justin Bieber said a mouthful about his past relationship with Selena Gomez during his recent interview with Complex magazine as the publication was doing a story about him, having been chosen to become the cover of its latest issue.
The “Baby” singer mentioned about how he and Selena used to fight a lot when they were together and likening their relationship to a marriage that eventually fell apart.
He said that he has learned a lot during his on-again, off-again three-year relationship with Selena Gomez that started in 2011 and ended late last year.