Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco sharing a kiss

It’s all happening for Selena Gomez.

Earlier this month, 32-year-old Gomez landed on Bloomberg’s billionaire index with an estimated worth of $1.3 billion, thanks to her growing empire, which includes her phenomenally popular Rare Beauty line and the mental health startup Wondermind.

Engagement rumors are swirling around her and her boyfriend, music producer Benny Blanco. And, she has her biggest role to date — and her first Spanish-speaking one — as a Mexican drug lord’s wife in the musical drama “Emilia Perez” out this November.

Selena Gomez in tan dress sitting on black bed on floor.
“I freaked out,” Gomez told Vanity Fair of scoring her first acting Emmy nomination for Best Actress Comedy Series for her work in “Only Murders in the Building.”Emma Summerton / Vanity Fair

Steve Martin, Meryl Streep, Selena Gomez and Martin Short posing together at the premiere of Hulu’s ‘Only Murders in The Building’ Season 4
Gomez was nominated for an Emmy this year for Best Actress Comedy Series for her work in “Only Murders in the Building,” alongside Steve Martin (left) and Martin Short (right). Meryl Streep also has a reoccurring role.

“I freaked out,” Gomez told Vanity Fair of scoring her first Emmy nomination for acting, in a category that includes comedy queens Kristen Wiig and Jean Smart.

She also earned her third nomination for being a producer on “Only Murders” — a record for a Latina — which is up for Best Comedy Series.

A woman, possibly Emilia Perez, looking down in a dark room, representing a scene from the Netflix musical drama 'Emilia Perez'
Gomez will star in her first Spanish-speaking role as a Mexican drug lord’s wife in the musical drama “Emilia Perez” out this November.

Selena Gomez sitting on a kitchen counter during her interview for Vanity Fair's October issue
Gomez also earned her third nomination for being a producer on “Only Murders” — a record for a Latina — which is up for Best Comedy Series.
On the show, now in its fourth season, she plays Mabel Mora, a sardonic true crime podcaster who teams up with her neighbors and fellow amateur detectives Charles (Steve Martin, 79), and Oliver (Martin Short, 74) to solve crimes.

Over the seasons, Mabel had bonded with Charles and Oliver despite their age differences. Offscreen, Gomez has also formed unlikely friendships with Martin and Short.

“There’s a degree of reality to it,” celebrity publicist Mitchell Jackson, founder of BCC Communications, told The Post. “There’s some sort of camaraderie and they really do get along. I don’t think Steve Martin would be someone you push to do something he didn’t want to.”

Steve Martin, Selena Gomez, and Martin Short as the characters Charles, Oliver, and Mabel in a scene from the TV series 'Only Murders in the Building' set in Los Angeles
Over the seasons of “Only Murderers in the Building,” Mabel (Gomez) bonded with Charles (Steve Martin, 79) and Oliver (Martin Short, 74) despite their age differences. Offscreen, Gomez has formed unlikely friendships with Martin and Short.


Another insider who has worked with Gomez and her team previously told The Post: “They [Martin, Short and Gomez] are real friends. She’s not a fake person that, at the end of the day, is what it is.”

The Post has reached out to Gomez’s team for comment.

She’s also found real love with Blanco, one of Hollywood’s most in demand music producers, who has worked with the likes of Ed Sheeran, Kate Perry and Gomez’s ex Justin Bieber.

Martin Short, Selena Gomez, and Steve Martin on the film set of 'Only Murders in the Building' TV Series in New York City, 2023
On the series, now in its fourth season, Gomez plays Mabel Mora, a sardonic true crime podcaster who teams up with her neighbors and fellow amateur detectives Charles and Oliver to solves crimes. “They [Martin, Short and Gomez] are real friends. She’s not a fake person that, at the end of the day, is what it is,” an insider who previously worked with Gomez told The Post.
The two met in 2015 when Gomez and Blanco, 36, collaborated on her hit, “Same Old Love” and became friends.

The pair made it red carpet-official on Jan. 15, 2024, at the 2023 Emmy Awards (the ceremony was delayed due to strikes) in Los Angeles where Gomez introduced Blanco to Martin and Short.

“I’ve never been loved this way,” Gomez told Vanity Fair in its October issue. “He’s just been a light. A complete light in my life.”

Gotham Burger Social Club owner Mike Puma hosted an event for Blanco’s cookbook, “Open Wide,” at the restaurant’s Lower East Side location and witnessed their love firsthand.

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco sitting together at Los Angeles Lakers versus Miami Heat basketball game in Crypto.com Arena
Engagement rumors are swirling around Gomez and her boyfriend, music producer Benny Blanco. 

“They were very comfortable together. They were warm. Very sweet couple — you could see her attraction to him. She couldn’t have been any sweeter,” Puma told The Post. “He opened up the car door for her when they left.”

Both seem totally smitten. For Gomez’s birthday in July, Blanco posted a photo of him cuddling the “Calm Down” singer while wearing a white teddy bear costume.

“I used to play a teddy bear in ur music video and now I get to be urs in real life. I love u!” he wrote in the caption.

It hasn’t been an easy path to this happy point.


“I’ve never been loved this way,” Gomez told Vanity Fair in its October issue. “He’s just been a light. A complete light in my life.”
Gomez’s mother, former actress Mandy Teefey, had her when she was just 16. The future star’s early years were spent in poverty in Grand Prairie, Texas, a small suburb near Dallas.

Showbiz was a ticket out.

In 2002 at age 10, Gomez made her Hollywood debut in the 90s kids show “Barney & Friends.” By 2007, she was starring as teen witch Alex Russo on the Disney Channel’s “Wizards of Waverly Place.” A year later, she started making music.

She met fellow pop star Justin Bieber in 2009 after being introduced by their managers. Bieber revealed in an interview that she was his celebrity crush.

Benny Blanco in a white teddy bear costume cuddling with singer Selena Gomez on a bed during her birthday celebration
For Gomez’s birthday last July, Blanco posted a photo of him cuddling with “Calm Down” singer while wearing a white teddy bear costume. “I used to play a teddy bear in ur music video and now I get to be urs in real life. I love u!” he wrote in the caption.

They started dating in 2010 and quickly became the “it” couple of the moment — with the paparazzi circus to match.

In 2013, Gomez released her first solo studio album “Stars Dance.” It debuted at no. 1 on the Billboard 200, but the rising star only had so much to celebrate.

That same year, she was diagnosed with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease that causes the immune system to attack its own tissues.

Gomez was also struggling with her mental health amidst the stresses of fame and her relationship with Bieber.

The pair made their official red carpet debut on Jan. 15, 2024, at the 2023 Emmy Awards
In 2016, she cancelled her Revival World Tour and and checked in to a treatment facility in Tennessee for anxiety and depression.

“The pressure is just overwhelming,” she said at the time, in a moment that was later broadcast in her 2022 documentary “My Mind & Me.”

“I didn’t want to go to a mental health hospital. I didn’t want to. But I didn’t want to be trapped in myself, in my mind anymore. I thought my life was over. I was like, ‘This is how I’m going to be forever,’ ” she revealed in the documentary.

In 2017, Gomez had to get a kidney transplant as her lupus worsened. The following year, she and Bieber broke up for good after years of on-and-off drama.

Selena Gomez kissing benny blanco.