Selena Gomez embraces her new single life with a new career and a new image
By Janelle James
When you think Selena Gomez, you think one of two things: Disney Channel’s “good girl” or Justin Bieber’s girlfriend. However, Gomez is kissing those roles behind to pursue a new career and an all-new image.
In her career, Gomez has taken leaps and bounds to show that she is not a little girl anymore. For example, Gomez is featured in a totally different light in the movie Spring Breakers. Spring Breakers showcases the former Disney starlet smoking, partying, and drinking, which are all things that we aren’t accustomed to seeing Ms. Gomez do. While shedding her “good girl” role is a definite risk, everyone has to grow up at some point.
“I just think as an actress, you kind of look for things like this. It’s not anything that we’re doing that’s super uncomfortable for us because we are playing characters and this is something that we were really passionate about,” said Gomez to MTV News about Spring Breakers.
Her personal life has also taken a dramatic turn. She ended her two-year relationship with pop singer, Justin Bieber. Tons of people were shocked and some devastated that the famous couple decided to part ways, but Gomez seems like she’s doing just fine. In fact, she has never looked happier. On the late night show, Chelsea Lately, she gushed, “I love being single,” and you know what, here at Medusa, we love single Gomez, too.
Gomez is the perfect example of how every girl doesn’t need a guy to make her happy. She’s making it clear to the public that even though Bieber may miss her, she has moved on and is enjoying her freedom. She doesn’t want to be known as, “Justin Bieber’s Girlfriend,” she just wants to be the singer/actress Selena Gomez.
Selena Gomez is a prime example of a young lady who knows what she wants and is going after it. She doesn’t want to be defined by who she dates, but she wants to be known for her work. She’s ambitious, determined, and isn’t afraid to take chances in her career. She’s growing up and learning more about herself. Even though she may not get to have the “college experience” she’s still going through what most 20-year-olds are nowadays: she’s thinking about the future and thinking about the kind of person she wants to be in the world.
Selena Gomez is an inspiration to young girls, teenagers, and young adults. She is making her mark in the world and by doing so, she is encouraging other young women to follow in her footsteps and do the same.
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