Selena Gomez, 30, stole the amusement connected the opening nighttime of the 2022 American Film Institute (AFI) Festival! On Wednesday, Nov. 2, the Selena + Chef prima and intelligence wellness advocator walked down the reddish carpet successful a agleam magenta silk gown that featured an off-shoulder sleeve and side-bow. The starlet besides rocked a brace of bedazzled pointed-toe pumps, arsenic she carried a chic metallic clutch. In addition, she completed the look by having her brunette tresses successful an elegant updo and sported a brace of agelong dazzling earrings.
Selena’s intelligence wellness Apple TV+ documentary, Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me, which starts streaming connected Nov. 4, is opening the 36th variation of the AFI festival this year. The “Dance Again” hitmaker’s documentary follows the past six years of her life, chiefly focusing connected her intelligence wellness journey. “Just beryllium who you are, Selena. No 1 cares astir what you’re doing,” Selena somberly told herself successful an affectional voiceover astatine the opening of her doc’s trailer, which was released successful October and tin beryllium seen below. “It’s astir who I am. Being OK with wherever I am. I americium grateful to beryllium alive.”
Selena besides admitted she sometimes wishes she weren’t truthful famous, but since she is, plans to usage that for good. “My full beingness since I was a kid, I’ve been working,” she explained implicit a clip of her successful Barney & Friends, connected which she acted betwixt 2002 and 2004. “And I don’t privation to be, like, ace famous, but I bash cognize that if I’m here, I person to usage that for good.”
Selena utilized her level to motorboat a makeup marque Rare Beauty, and a intelligence wellness money called the Rare Impact Fund, which has a extremity to rise $100 cardinal by 2030 to grow intelligence wellness services to those who request them astir .“Since the brand’s inception, we wanted to find a mode to springiness backmost to our assemblage and further enactment radical who needed entree to intelligence wellness services, which person had a profound interaction connected my life,” she said successful a property merchandise successful 2020. “Rare Beauty is focused connected helping radical consciousness much connected to 1 different and little unsocial successful the world. The Rare Impact Fund volition marque a nonstop interaction connected galore lives and, ultimately, marque a quality successful the world. I’m arrogant of the enactment we’ve begun to bash with our partners to connection these services to anyone who needs support.”
The Rare Impact Fund presently has much than a twelve spouse programs and organizations to assistance dispersed intelligence wellness consciousness and springiness radical the enactment they need. Rare Beauty besides donates 1% of each income to the Rare Impact Fund.
Selena has been unfastened astir her struggles with intelligence wellness for years, and adjacent announced successful 2019 pursuing her Revival World Tour that she was taking a interruption to enactment connected herself. “As galore of you know, astir a twelvemonth agone I revealed that I person lupus, an unwellness that tin impact radical successful antithetic ways,” the erstwhile Disney star told PEOPLE in December of that year. “I’ve discovered that anxiety, panic attacks, and slump tin beryllium broadside effects of lupus, which tin contiguous their ain challenges.”
“I privation to beryllium proactive and absorption connected maintaining my wellness and happiness and person decided that the champion mode guardant is to instrumentality immoderate clip off,” she continued. “Thank you to each my fans for your support. You cognize however peculiar you are to me, but I request to look this caput connected to guarantee I americium doing everything imaginable to beryllium my best. I cognize I americium not unsocial by sharing this, I anticipation others volition beryllium encouraged to code their ain issues.”