5 December check out Selena’s interview from Teen Vogue Summit

Check out Selena’s interview from the special online event Teen Vogue Summit.

“When I was younger I was lucky enough to find my passion, and from that point on, I kind of had to go with it no matter what happened,” Selena explained to Teen Vogue editor in chief Lindsay Peoples Wagner. “And because of that, a lot of people told me ‘no,’ a lot of people said … that I wasn’t capable.” This negativity only furthered Selena’s drive to succeed. “The theme of everything I do is good quality. I want to make sure the stuff that I have, whether it’s all the business stuff to my work acting and singing, it’s important for me to be authentic and to connect to something. Otherwise, it seems a bit pointless to me. It requires a lot of hard work. But the payoff is amazing.”

Selena has embraced honesty and openness, especially when it comes to talking about her mental health. “I think it’s less scary when you talk about it. So that’s some sense of freedom that I gained once I did,” she said. “I think I had a moment where I felt different. Like, ‘Why do I react this way? Why do I feel the way I do and nobody else does?’ and I had to figure that out. I didn’t want just to stay in this place of confusion.”

“My journey personally has been all about my timing; when I felt like it was working, that’s when I suddenly became so obsessed with making sure that everybody I knew understood that sharing your emotions [was] great,” she shared. “How I’m a huge advocate for therapy. How I feel like there are support groups for everybody, and it’s OK … there’s no way that people aren’t feeling a certain way, whether they’re figuring that out on their own or not, we all need each other.”

“I would love to see men championing women more,” she explained. “I’m believing that this place of all these women just supporting each other is great, but we also need some support from men.”

where she’ll star opposite comedy legends Steve Martin and Martin Short. “I am still going to be working on the next collection for Rare, that’s something we’re talking about right now. I’m currently shooting my show for Hulu — it’s a comedy/dramedy show that I’ve been anxious to start filming and now we get the opportunity safely to do it, so I’m looking forward to that,” Selena told the audience. “And then the holidays … peaceful with my family. I couldn’t ask for anything more.”

Source: www.teenvogue.com