14 DAY TRIAL // Selena Gomez made the transition from Disney star to grown-up woman without shedding her clothes or trading her image for a raunchy one. Today, she’s considered a solid entertainer and one of the most beautiful young women in showbiz.
In her latest music video, for the single “Good for You,” Selena shows her sultry, feminine side, singing about looking her best for the man she loves. She says she hopes every woman in love would relate to the song and video.
However, when the glam squad is not around to make her look as flawless as this, Selena is not without her insecurities, she reveals in a recent interview.
Where does Selena rank on the hotness scale?
Selena, as fans must know, is preparing for the release of a new album, of which she hinted would be her most personal work yet. “Good for You” is the leading single, and now at almost 46 million views on the official channel on YouTube, it spells a promising launch for the album as well.
However, at the end of the day, Selena is just like most women, in that she is plagued by insecurities and thoughts of what she could or should improve about herself.
At least, that’s the conclusion one can draw from her answer on Boston’s The TJ Show radio show, when she was asked to rate herself on a hotness scale of 1 to 10.
“On a good day, I would say - like a premiere day - I would be a good 9. And then, on my every day, I feel like a 6. Gosh, that sounds so bad! I feel like a 6 or a 7,” she said, admitting that, like most women, “you have your days.”
She also insisted that the question was “awkward” and that she couldn’t possibly rate herself a 10 because that wouldn’t be right.
An awkward question, indeed
The question was out of place for a promotional music interview, that much is true. If we were to place it in the context of the ongoing discussion on sexism in showbiz, we’d come to the conclusion that no male singer would ever be asked such a thing, to rate himself on a hotness scale.
So no wonder that Selena sounds mortified to answer it.
On the other hand, her answer reveals that thing the media always seems to forget: celebrities are human too, and constant attention on their physical appearance translates into pressure to look “perfect” at all times.
Since they’re human, they have insecurities too. As we learned from Demi Lovato’s example, when this pressure collides with crippling personal insecurities or a low self-esteem, the results can be near-disastrous: addiction, self-harm and destructive behavior.
