Selena Gomez is a modern "triple star": she's an international pop star, an Emmy-nominated actress, and a cosmetics mogul. But soon she may end her singing career for good.
"I feel like I have at most one more album in me," Gomez said on the "Smartless" podcast.
"The older I get, the more I want to find something that I can just fully dedicate myself to," she continued, adding that she would ideally like to focus on her acting career.
From an early age, Gomez said she wanted to be a "serious actress." Her music career only took off because Disney approached her to produce an album while she was starring in the Disney Channel sitcom "Wizards of Waverly Place" in late 2000.
"I thought it would be fun and more than anything I thought it would be a hobby that I really enjoyed," she says. "I wanted to be an actress. I never intended to be a full-time singer, but apparently this hobby turned into something else."
Since 2013, Gomez has released three hit studio albums, collectively including "Come & Get It," "Same Old Love," and "Lose You to Love Me." In 2022, she won the first of her two Grammy Awards for Best Latin Pop Album for her Spanish-language EP, Revelación. At the end of last year, she released her latest single "Single Soon".
An early teen icon thanks to "Wizards," Gomez also currently stars in the critically-acclaimed Hulu series "Murder Only in the Building" alongside Martin Short and Steve Martin, and has appeared in films as diverse as "Spring Breakers." and "A Rainy Day in New York".
Intertwining her music and acting careers has taken its toll on Gomez, she said on the podcast episode, in part because of her struggles with mental health, a topic she spoke openly about in her 2022 documentary series, "Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me ".
Although she admitted that in any case nothing forces her to choose between music and acting, she admitted that the choice could be clearly defined in the very near future./BGNES
