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1:49 am - 01/18/2013

Selena Gomez: It's hard to trust girls


Selena Gomez has said that she discusses relationship issues with Taylor Swift.

The Disney actress admitted that her friendship with the country singer isn't based on the showbiz world; instead, the pair like to talk about normal things such as love and family.

She told NYLON magazine: "We both experienced the same things at the same time. But we've never once talked about our industry.

"She just became the person I'd go to for an issue with my family or boyfriend. It's so hard to trust girls, so I'm lucky to have her."


Gomez was recently said to have broken up with her boyfriend of two years, Justin Bieber, but in her pre-split interview for the February issue of the publication, she claimed that she was having a good time with the popstar.

The 20-year-old said "I'm having fun. At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it.

"Just because it's a different lifestyle doesn't change the meaning of what I've been raised on, which is fairy tales."


Gomez went on to say that she wasn't used to portraying a less innocent character in the upcoming movie Spring Breakers, also starring Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and James Franco.

She confessed "I had to have someone show me how to hold the cigarette. I definitely felt that with my first stepping-out role, I should choose something that I could understand a little more I was really nervous, but [director] Harmony [Korine] took a chance with me.

"He said, 'You live in this bubble, and I'm going to take you out of it, but you have to trust me'."

The former Wizards of Waverly Place star claimed tha she wants to explore more mature roles, but doesn't want to alienate her existing younger audience

Gomez added: "I've told parents, 'Make sure you don't let your kids see Spring Breakers', because with the title, you could think it would be cute or something.

"I know it isn't for the younger generation I have following me, but I'm also about to be 21. I felt like it was my little side project that I was super excited about, that would be under the radar."

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stellarlyssa 18th-Jan-2013 01:59 am (UTC)
Sigh. Why can't you just say it's hard to trust people?
zurbraran 18th-Jan-2013 03:17 am (UTC)
I wonder how much of this "I don't trust girls" sentiment is the result of girls having higher expectations for female behavior & female friendship.

So when they realize that girls can be just as crappy, untrustworthy, & hurtful as boys - because girls are just people, not sweet & angelic exemplars of moral rectitude - it seems like more of a betrayal. Because boys are just being boys, but girls should be "better" than that.
superhetoric 18th-Jan-2013 03:57 am (UTC)
that's a nice thought. but i'm pretty sure that internalized misogyny and female chauvinism (i'm not like those OTHER GIRLS, i'm special) is the cause of this kind of shit.
silly_izzy_me 18th-Jan-2013 05:45 am (UTC)
mte
zurbraran 18th-Jan-2013 06:47 am (UTC)
...I'm not sure how any of these things are mutually exclusive. You really don't see how higher/different expectations for what constitutes a good female friend (or wife, or mother, etc.) as opposed to a good male friend (or husband/father, etc.)is connected to these sorts of sentiments?
callme_morbid 18th-Jan-2013 08:13 am (UTC)
that's actually an interesting point. women in general have to meet higher standards to be 'adequate' or w/e in their roles as friends.
imnotasquirrel 18th-Jan-2013 02:26 pm (UTC)
I think you make a good point.
pixiegerms 18th-Jan-2013 03:25 am (UTC)
i think maybe it has to do with the competitive nature of the industry she's working in. i can imagine most if not all hollywood girls have to be sneaky and underhanded to get where they want.

personally i wouldn't trust anyone in that business, but the age group she's working in and the amount of young girls that want her job, i can imagine it gets a bit shifty.
x_neverenough 18th-Jan-2013 04:57 am (UTC)
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