SELENA GOMEZ SHARES DREAMS OF BECOMING A MOTHER AFTER BENNY BLANCO WEDDING
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Selena Gomez shared her dreams of becoming a mother 'one day' less than two weeks after tying the knot with A-list music producer, Benny Blanco.
The Emmy nominee, 33, made the remark while promoting season two of the Wizards Of Waverly place sequel series, Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, on Disney+.
Gomez famously starred on the original Emmy-winning Disney Channel show, which aired from 2007 to 2012, as teenage witch Alex Russo.
Taking to her Instagram Story on Thursday, Gomez revealed that her character Alex is now a 'mommy' as she posted footage from the reboot's season finale.
'Alex Russo is a mommy,' Gomez penned, before adding: 'hopefully one day that'll be me'
The footage shows Gomez sharing an emotional moment with her onscreen daughter Billie, who is played by Janice LeAnn Brown.
In a behind-the-scenes clip posted to YouTube, Gomez gushed about her and Janice playing 'mother and daughter.'
'I really am grateful for this lovely Janice child,' Gomez said with a laugh.
Janice revealed that the initial table read for the season two finale, where Alex reveals to Billie that she is her mother, left her and Gomez in tears.
'It was very emotional, especially for me and her after the table read,' Janice said, with Gomez adding: 'We were just puddles'
Gomez's emotional reaction may not come as a shock to fans as the star has been open about her desire to become a mother.
Last year, she revealed for the first time to Vanity Fair that she 'can't carry' children due to medical reasons.
She said she had to 'grieve' her inability to become a mother naturally after years of battling lupus, a chronic autoimmune condition that causes the body to attack itself.
'I haven't ever said this,' Gomez told the publication, 'but I unfortunately can't carry my own children.
'I have a lot of medical issues that would put my life and the baby's in jeopardy. That was something I had to grieve for a while.'
While she acknowledged her path to motherhood will be 'different,' Gomez said she is still as determined as ever to have a child of her own.
'It's not necessarily the way I envisioned it. I thought it would happen the way it happens for everyone,' she said.
'I'm in a much better place with that. I find it a blessing that there are wonderful people willing to do surrogacy or adoption, which are both huge possibilities for me.
'It made me really thankful for the other outlets for people who are dying to be moms. I'm one of those people. I'm excited for what that journey will look like, but it'll look a little different,' she said.
Selena expressed that through surrogacy or adoption, the child will be 'mine.'
'At the end of the day, I don't care. It'll be mine. It'll be my baby,' she expressed.
Gomez also spoke about the possibility of adopting last year while attending a Time 100 Most Influential Companies event.
During the function, she revealed that she had planned to adopt a child herself if she hadn't met the right partner by age 35.
'I was alone for five years, and I got really used to it,' Gomez said of her time before dating her now-husband Benny Blanco.
'A lot of people are afraid of being alone and I probably tortured myself in my head for like two years being alone, and then I kind of accepted it.
'Then I came up with my plan, which was I was going to adopt at 35 if I had not met anyone,' she explained.
Benny has also vocalized his desire to start a family with Gomez.
While appearing on Howard Stern's SiriusXM show last year, Blanco confessed that his 'next goal' is to have a child with Gomez.
'That's my next goal [to check] on the box. I have a lot of god kids, I've got a ton of nephews. I love being around kids,' he told Stern.
Gomez and Blanco first went public with their romance in December 2023 after dating secretly for six months.
One year later, Blanco proposed to Gomez with a massive diamond engagement ring.
On September 27, 2025, the couple tied the knot at a nursery in Santa Barbara, California.
They exchanged vows in front of Gomez's BFF Taylor Swift and a slew of other high-profile guests, including Gomez's Only Murders In The Building co-stars Martin Short and Steve Martin.
Gomez rocked three custom Ralph Lauren dresses to her wedding, including the stunning lace gown she wore to walk down the aisle.
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