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14 THE STAR ENTERTAINMENT • Tuesday, September 10, 2024 @JamaicaStar www.facebook.com/JamaicaStar • www.jamaica-star.com S elena Gomez “can’t carry” children due to medical reasons. The Wizards of Waverly Place actress, 32, recently said she was planning to adopt a baby before she met her music producer boyfriend Benny Blanco, 36, who she has been dating since 2023. She has now revealed she has had to “grieve” her inability to naturally become a mother. She told Vanity Fair : “I haven’t ever said this, but I, unfortunately, can’t carry my own children. “I have a lot of medical issues that would put my life and the baby’s in jeopardy. That was something I had to grieve for a while.” Gomez said she is still determined to become a mum in a “different” way. “It’s not necessarily the way I envisioned it. I thought it would happen the way it happens for everyone. “I’m in a much better place with that. I find it a blessing that there are wonderful people willing to do surrogacy or adoption, which are both huge possibilities for me. “It made me really thankful for the other outlets for people who are dying to be moms. I’m one of those people. I’m excited for what that journey will look like, but it’ll look a little different.” She added that surrogacy or adoption would still mean she would be a mum, saying. “At the end of the day, I don’t care. It’ll be mine. It’ll be my baby,” she said. In 2013 Gomez was diagnosed with lupus, and four years later successfully received a kidney transplant. She told Time magazine about how she resigned herself to being a single mum before she got together with Benny. “I was alone for five years and I got really used to it. A lot of people are afraid of being alone, and I probably tortured myself in my head for like two years being alone, and then I kind of accepted it.” Gomez added that she then “came up with my plan” – which was for her to adopt at the age of 35 if she “had not met anyone”. She said about things changing when she met Benny: “It just happens when you least expect it.” Selena Gomez reveals she can’t give birth J anet Jackson won’t be putting her son into show business. The 58-year-old singer – who has seven-year-old Eissa with her ex-husband Wissam Al Mana – has amassed huge success since starting out as a child star in the 1970s. And while she is “so thankful” that she got the chance to be a mother, has insisted that she will not be putting her little boy on the same path and will leave the decision completely up to him. Speaking on UK TV show Loose Women , she said: “It means everything. I’m so thankful that God allowed me to experience [motherhood], because it didn’t have to be. I do a lot of reflection, it’s amazing because kids don’t realise what you go through as a parent or what you have going on the back burner.” However, if Eissa is particularly passionate about a showbiz career, Jackson won’t stand in his way once he’s an adult. She added: “It’s about him. If that’s what he wants; but I would say that he has to wait til he’s of age and still make sure that’s what he wants to do. Whatever you do is very difficult. The industry is very tough, but he would have to wait til he is 18.” The Miss You Much hitmaker is the 10th and youngest child of the Jackson family and recalled her brothers, including the late Michael Jackson, becoming child stars as part of The Jackson 5 and is “happy” that her father pushed her to follow the same career path. But she does wish that she had had the chance to pursue education further. She said: “I am happy because he obviously saw something that I didn’t, but I still wish I would’ve experienced college. Or, I should say, university. I always wanted to experience that. I was just a baby when my brothers were successful, so that’s all I’ve ever really known.” Janet Jackson won’t push son into showbiz Janet Jackson AP