She was born on Wednesday, July 22, 1992 at Glens Falls Hospital in Grand Prairie, Texas at 7:19. Mother Gomez, the theater actress Amanda Dawn "Mandy" Cornett, has Italian roots, while her father, Ricardo Joel Gomez, is Mexican in origin [6] [7]. The parents gave her the name in honor of the singer Selena, one of the biggest stars of tymano music in the world [8].
When she was five, her parents divorced; Gomez was brought up by her mother, who in 2006 married Brian Teefey [9]. On June 12, 2013, Gomez's half-sister Gracie Elliot Teefey was born. The singer also has siblings from the father's side and his wife Sarah - sister Victoria (born on June 24, 2014) and foster brother Marcus, son of Sara from the previous relationship.
In an interview she gave to People magazine in 2009, she admitted that her interest in acting arose in her when she watched her mother prepare for her theater productions.
