Selena Gomez may once have been the most followed person on Instagram, but that doesn’t mean she has to like the platform.
In a recent interview with Dazed Magazine, photographer Brianna Capozzi asked, “If you could hit a button today and get rid of Instagram entirely, would you?”
Her answer ...
It’s Destroying The Generation
Essentially, Gomez’s answer was “yes.” But she found a more enlightening, less hostile way of answering.
“Oh gosh! I think I’d have a lot of people not liking me for saying yes,” she said with a laugh. “If I could find a balanced, happy medium that would be great, but I would be lying if I said that it isn’t destroying some of my generation, their identity.”
She even named her new album Rare “because there’s so much pressure to look the same as everyone else.”
How She Protects Herself
Instead of deleting Instagram altogether, which would utterly devastate fans, Gomez tells Elle she has her own way of controlling social media, rather than letting it control her.
“What I do now is to only go on it when I feel like I need to, and then I’ll just log off, I won’t take time to explore or look at anything else.”
She won’t even read what’s written about her online, for the sake of her sanity.
A Brighter Future
Selena Gomez has spoken openly about her mental health issues such as depression and anxiety. After taking a break in 2018, she is now on the mend and taking good care of her mental health.
“I'm on the proper medication that I need to be on, even as far as my mental health,” she told NPR. “I fully believe in just making sure you check in with your doctors or therapist. [Taking care of mental health — ] that's forever.”
Selena is on a mission to make some changes in the world she lives in. “I want to live in a world where an 11-year-old is not committing suicide because of bullying on social media. That's what I think my real mission is.”