Simply three months after she returned to posting on Instagram, Selena Gomez is probably the most adopted girl on the platform with 400 million followers. The “Only Murders in the Building” star hit the milestone quantity on March 17. Beforehand, in February, she surpassed Kylie Jenner, who used to carry probably the most adopted girl title with 382 million followers.
Whereas no different feminine celebrities have extra followers than Gomez, she’s not probably the most adopted individual on all of Instagram. That title goes to soccer participant Cristiano Ronaldo, who has 562 followers. He is adopted by one other soccer player, Lionel Messi, who has 442 million individuals maintaining together with his account. As for Jenner, she’s now in fourth place general. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is not far behind her with 369 followers.
Gomez has been candid prior to now about her sophisticated relationship with Instagram. In a 2021 interview with Vogue, the “Calm Down” singer revealed that she deleted the photo-sharing platform’s app from her telephone in 2019. As an alternative of posting issues for herself, she would ship her assistant issues to put up for her.
She got here to the choice to step away from the app after she observed it affecting her mental health. “At one level Instagram grew to become my complete world, and it was actually harmful,” she instructed InStyle in 2022. “In my early 20s, I felt like I wasn’t fairly sufficient. There was a complete interval in my life after I thought I wanted make-up and by no means needed to be seen with out it. The older I received, the extra I advanced and realized that I wanted to take management of what I used to be feeling. I needed to have the ability to look within the mirror and really feel assured to be who I’m.”
Fittingly, her latest post options two make-up free selfies. She captioned the pics, “Violet chemistry,” a nod to the tune of the identical identify on Miley Cyrus‘s eighth studio album, “Endless Summer.”
“Taking a break from social media was the perfect resolution that I’ve ever made for my psychological well being,” Gomez defined. “The pointless hate and comparisons went away as soon as I put my telephone down. I am going to have moments the place that bizarre feeling will come again, however now I’ve a a lot better relationship with myself.”