Selena Gomez Is Starting A Mental Health Company

Selena Gomez has spoken about reaching 'rock bottom' with her mental health during a SXSW panel titled, Mindfulness Over Perfection: Getting Real On Mental Health.

'It makes me sick to hear the things that I was saying about myself in the beginning. It bums me out,' the Rare Beauty founder admitted. 'But I think everybody can relate to that feeling. It's important to speak to yourself with kindness, but I don't think I really understood that [at the start of her Apple TV+ documentary, My Mind And Me].'

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In fact, it was after watching Girl, Interrupted with her mother Mandy Teefey that Gomez started to recognise the difficulties of being a young actor in the entertainment industry.

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'There was a lot of people that cared about me more than I cared about myself that really wanted me to do things I wasn't ready for. I had my rock bottom, and I had to do it in my time,' she said. 'It took a couple of tries, but I like to think and hope I'm in a much better place now.'

Gomez, who recently hard-launched her relationship with music producer Benny Blanco, has spoken frankly about her mental health before, even going as far as to launch her own mental health company with Teefey and her best friend, Daniella Pierson, in 2021.

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The former Disney star announced the launch of WonderMind in an interview for the December issue of Entrepreneur Magazine, with the hope of it being to increase access to mental wellness resources and decrease stigma. The platform aims to develop user's 'mental fitness' by using an array of wellness features.

‘Something I’ve always tried to do in my career is make sure I lend my voice to places where it matters,’ Gomez said in the interview. ‘And I have to give my mum credit for that because she taught me everything.'

Teefey, who is in charge of the platform's creative content, echoed her daughter's sentiments about the importance of raising awareness of mental health issues and offering support to others, noting: 'We wanted to create something outside the box that gets into the dirt of what could really help people.'

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Pierson, who is an entrepreneur and co-CEO of the company, added: ‘We’re excited to build a lucrative business. Because the best way to ensure that society pays attention to an issue is to make money from it. That’s how true movements are made.’

Gomez has been under the media spotlight since the tender age of seven, when she starred on Barney & Friends, before making her appearance on Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place, at the age of 14.

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