Selena Gomez Reveals She Can't Have Children Due to Medical Issues

Star Selena Gomez of "Only Murders in the Building", residing in Los Angeles, spoke up about her health: she cannot carry her children due to several health risks.

The 32-year-old said she did plan to start a family when she turns 35.

"I haven't ever said this, 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," Gomez said in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine - on the cover in October.

In 2015, she was diagnosed with lupus, a chronic disease in which the immune system attacks its own tissues and organs. The following year, she was also diagnosed with anxiety and depression. In 2017, due to lupus, she underwent a kidney transplant. Later, in 2020, the singer-actor was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Gomez added that she's open to adoption, partially because her own mother and former stage actor Mandy Teefey was adopted.

I probably wouldn't be here. I don't know what her life would've been like. She and I are very grateful for the way it all turned out."

Even though that may be a different journey, she may one day still become a mom, she added.

It's not necessarily the way that I envisioned it. I thought it would happen the same way it happens for everyone. I'm in a much better place with that. Surrogacy and adoption, those are both huge possibilities for me, and that's a blessing.

That made me really thankful for the other outlets for people who are dying to be moms. I'm one of those people, and I'm excited for what that journey will look like, but it'll look a little different. At the end of the day, I don't care. It'll be mine. It'll be my baby.

She most recently appeared in Jacques Audiard's "Emilia Perez", which just picked up the TIFF Variety Artisan Award at the Toronto International Film Festival 2024.