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After Selena Gomez surpassed Kylie Kenner arsenic the most-followed pistillate connected Instagram, the vocalist announced that she'll beryllium "taking a 2nd from societal media." Find retired why.
Kylie Jenner Denies "SILLY" Claim She Shaded Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez is keeping her hands to herself—and disconnected her phone.
Shortly becoming Instagram's most-followed pistillate with over 382 cardinal users, the "My Mind & Me" vocalist announced connected Feb. 23 that she'll beryllium "taking a 2nd from societal media." She reclaimed the title from Kylie Jenner, who deed the awesome feat backmost successful January 2022. (The Kardashians prima presently trails Selena with 380 cardinal followers.)
"I'm precise happy, I'm truthful blessed," Selena said aft hitting the large milestone. "I person the champion friends, the champion fans successful the full world. I conscionable couldn't beryllium happier."
The Only Murders successful the Building actress' societal media hiatus comes amid online sermon surrounding her appearance. Earlier this month, the 30-year-old—who has been unfastened astir her struggles with intelligence health and lupus diagnosis—shared a self-love connection in effect to disapproval astir her body.
"I conscionable privation radical to cognize that you're beauteous and you're wonderful," Selena said successful a Feb. 16 TikTok Live video. "And yeah, we person days wherever possibly we consciousness similar s--t but I would overmuch alternatively beryllium steadfast and instrumentality attraction of myself."
She continued, "My medications are important and I judge they are what helps me. So, yeah, not a model, ne'er volition be. And I deliberation they're awesome, caput you, I just, I'm decidedly not that."
Days later, she was thrust into online play erstwhile a TikTok idiosyncratic posted a video accusing Kylie of throwing shadiness astatine Selena's eyebrows—a assertion that both stars denied. "This is reaching," Kylie wrote backmost to the idiosyncratic connected Feb. 22. "u guys are making thing retired of nothing. this is silly."
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Selena past replied, "Agreed @kyliejenner It's each unnecessary. I'm a instrumentality of Kylie!"
While announcing her latest societal media hiatus, Selena alluded to each the online chatter. "I emotion the mode I am," she said. "This is simply a small silly. I'm 30, I'm excessively aged for this."
However, that doesn't mean Selena—who returned to Instagram successful January aft a four-year pause—will beryllium disappearing for different agelong long of time. As she explained to fans, "I volition spot you guys sooner than later. I'm conscionable gonna instrumentality a interruption from everything."
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