Meet Selena Gomez

Brut America

Selena Gomez is not just a former Disney star — she's a young actress who fights for women's rights and encourages young people to engage in politics. Brut met Selena Gomez in Cannes. This is her story.

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00:00Hi, I'm Selena Gomez for Brute.

00:02The whole thing that I'm proud of is being able to be role models for young girls.

00:26My family always encouraged me to give back.

00:29So everything that I did was always out of supporting other people.

00:34I mean, my mom was always like, be nice and be kind and be humble.

00:47I remember being in school and all my friends wore like Abercrombie or American Eagle

00:53and it was really hard for my family to kind of afford a $45 sweater.

00:58I started working when I was seven.

01:00And I definitely sometimes wish that I could have had a different upbringing.

01:09Just not sure I should have been involved that young.

01:13It's just, for me, made me a bit guarded, harder to trust people.

01:18I have my close friends and just to be careful.

01:29Our families ended up homeschooling us together.

01:33So we were homeschooled throughout our entire middle school slash high school year.

01:38And then we moved to LA together.

01:41So our families actually lived in a home together for a little bit while I started working on my series.

01:59I am not old enough to vote, but I will be sooner or later.

02:03And if I keep pushing the subject away and not trying to learn about it now,

02:07I'm not going to know what to do when I am eligible to vote.

02:10The biggest issue for me is environment with global warming.

02:13You walk up to kids today and you ask them about global warming

02:16and they're like, I don't know.

02:18I don't know.

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02:27You walk up to kids today and you ask them about global warming and issues like that

02:29and half of them look at you and think, what's that?

02:32And that's sad because they don't know what's going on and what's going to happen

02:36if we don't start working on this issue now.

02:39I feel very honored to have a voice that kids listen to and take into consideration.

02:57I think it's very sweet.

02:59So for me, I'm very happy that I can use my voice for things like this to educate kids.

03:09I just only want to share it to all the girls out there that you have a voice,

03:26that you have a chance to just do what you love, whether that is acting or singing

03:31and just being true to who you are.

03:35And the person that's taught me that better than anyone is my mom.

03:39She's so strong and beautiful and has taught me everything.

03:51I am getting a little bit older so I wanted to push myself and kind of get into a little

03:56bit more of an indie world and it was a really great experience for me.

04:00At the same time, it has been, of course, a little awkward but great.

04:30The older I've gotten and the way that I've seen men online talk about me definitely bugs me.

04:56But I just, I don't know, you look at my Instagram and it's not like hot photos.

05:01It's just, you know, my life.

05:04I like to share bits and pieces that I want to share of my life with them and I think

05:11it's always better than, I don't know, interviews or getting to know me from my music or anything.

05:18I think it is nice to be intimate.

05:25When we started production I was going through some stuff in my personal life and it was

05:49weird to see how the message of the story was actually reflecting what I was going through

05:53personally.

06:54I've been working with an organization for over, almost over a year and it's just all

07:01human trafficking from child labor to, I don't want to get too graphic, but that's one of

07:09the big causes I'm fighting for right now.

07:23It's my first time.

07:32I'm excited.

07:33I don't know what to expect but it's definitely an honor.

07:53I'm excited.

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