Vogueのインスタグラム(voguemagazine) - 3月11日 04時39分

April cover star @セレーナ・ゴメス was born in Grand Prairie, Texas, a midsize town outside Dallas that once had a professional baseball team called the Airhogs. Her parents were both 16 when she was born, in 1992. Gomez grew up in a neighborhood that was mainly Mexican-​American, like her dad’s family. She was named after Selena Quintanilla, whose music both her parents loved. Her mom, Mandy Teefey, let her splash around in the yard during rainstorms; her dad liked to watch Friday and Bad Boys with his cherubic baby girl. “It always smelled like fresh-cut grass,” Gomez remembers of her childhood in Texas. “We’d play outside for hours, and my nana and her friends would be sitting with their iced tea. It wasn’t a lot, but it was great.”

As a kid, Gomez was sensitive but fearless: A picture of her comforting another kid on the first day of pre-K made the local paper. (“Apparently I had just been like, ‘Peace!’ to my mom and walked right in,” she says.) She staged concerts in the living room and loved frilling herself up to compete in that particular Southern ritual—the beauty pageant. Gomez’s parents broke up when she was five, and Teefey mustered all her wherewithal to provide for her kid, working simultaneously at a Starbucks, a Dave & Buster’s, and a modeling agency. She ably shielded Gomez from the ever-present financial difficulties. “I remember always being reminded that people had less than we did,” Gomez says. “And we didn’t have much. But I felt like we did because my mom was always doing a hundred million things just to make me happy, and we volunteered at soup kitchens on Thanksgiving; we went through my closet for Goodwill.”

Tap the link in our bio to read the full profile. Photographed by @nadineijewere, styled by @gabriellak_j, written by @jiatortellini, Vogue, April 2021. Above: @セレーナ・ゴメス with her maternal grandparents, Debbie and David, and her Maltipoo.

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