Selena Gomez has somehow managed the unthinkable in a social media age, by avoiding the internet for four years.
The Lose You To Love Me singer is one of the most-followed celebrities on Instagram with over 309million fans – more than , Kylie Jenner or .
Despite her heavy presence on the platform, Selena, 29, isn’t even keeping up with her own Insta feed as for a whopping four-and-a-half years to manage her mental health.
Speaking to Good Morning America, she revealed: ‘I am happier, I am more present, I connect more with people. I understand how powerful the internet is, and in so many ways it’s done the best things for the world.
‘But for me, I get to my news that is actually important I get through people in my life.’
Colour us impressed.
Selena added that she learnt a lot from ‘growing up in the spotlight’, and eventually ‘took the necessary steps’ to avoid constantly being in the public eye.
The former Disney star has been open about her mental health in previous years, and recently told InStyle that she needed to ‘take control’ of her life after realising how social media was impacting her decisions.
She also told Elle Magazine last year: ‘For a while, I felt like an object. It felt gross for a long time.
‘I don’t even know what they really believed I was doing – drugs, alcohol, running around, partying. The narrative was so nasty.’
Revealing that her assistant now manages her social channels, she added: ‘I don’t have it on my phone, so there’s no temptation,’ she told the publication.
‘I suddenly had to learn how to be with myself. That was annoying, because, in the past, I could spend hours looking at other people’s lives.’
The singer has now launched Wondermind, a mental fitness company that provides free online resources, in hopes of ‘normalising talking about these mental illnesses that maybe people thought they knew about, but they actually manifest in different ways in different people’.
