It’s never a good thing reporting on someone with a medical condition that could eventually cause them to die. Selena Gomez, who has been in the headlines again recently while talking about her former relationship with Justin Bieber, is now revealing that she has a disease and uses a medication for it. But what is the disease that is afflicting the young former actress.
As per Buzz Feed, Selena has long been open about her health issues, revealing back in 2015 – eight years ago – that she had to undergo chemotherapy after she was diagnosed with the autoimmune condition lupus.
In 2017, Selena had a kidney transplant after suffering organ damage as a result of the autoimmune disease. A few years later, she opened up further about the pain that lupus has caused her in her 2022 documentary, My Mind & Me.
And over these years, Selena has also been candid about how her lupus medication causes weight gain.
Selena faced heaps of body-shaming comments back in 2018 after she was photographed by paparazzi out on the beach in a bikini.
In response to people who said she looked “fat,” Selena ended up explaining she uses drug medications, “I have Lupus and deal with kidney issues and high blood pressure, so I deal with a lot of health issues. For me that’s when I really started noticing more of the body image stuff.”
We pray the very best for Selena.
Selena Gomez opens up about weight gain side effects from her Lupus medication on TikTok Live due to body-shaming comments.
— Pop Base (@PopBase) February 16, 2023
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