Selena Gomez Named Billboard's Woman of the Year, Talks The Weeknd, Women's Revolution, Staying Strong

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Selena Gomez Named Billboard's Woman of the Year, Talks The Weeknd, Women's Revolution, Staying Strong

Star girl Selena Gomez covers the December 9th, 2017 cover of Billboard, celebrating her being named the 2017 Woman of the Year. Kate Young  styles Gomez for images by Ruven Afanador. 

Gomez's 2017 life journey has been intense with producing the hit Netflix show '13 Reasons' to mastering the evolution of her music style with singles like 'Fetish' and 'Bad Liar', to going public about her recent kidney transplant. Gomez deals with each topic in her Billboard interview. 

Then there's the subject of Selena Gomez's love life including The Weeknd and Justin Bieber. In her Billboard interview, Gomez sets the record straight -- although her dear friend hasn't weighed in on his visual banishment of them as a couple from his Instagram page. 

“Something that I’m really proud of is that there’s such a true friendship [between me and The Weeknd],” Gomez told Billboard. “I truly have never experienced anything like that in my life. We ended it as best friends, and it was genuinely about encouraging and caring [for each other], and that was pretty remarkable for me.”

Selena Gomez Covers InStyle US September 2017 Fashion Issue, Lensed By Phil Poynter

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Selena Gomez Covers InStyle US September 2017 Fashion Issue, Lensed By Phil Poynter

Pop superstar Selena Gomez covers the September 2017 fashion issue of InStyle US, styled by Kate Young in Miu Miu, Alexander McQueen, Coach 1941, Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana. Fashion photographer Phil Poynter flashes Gomez, who is interviewed by Laura Brown, who describes Gomez:

Gomez has a particularly potent power: Her celebrity comes not just from what she creates, how she looks, and whom she dates but from how she has suffered and how she has picked herself up. She is not a great advocate of the kind of childhood fame she experienced on the Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place. “I think it is really dysfunctional to be in this industry at a young age where you’re figuring out who you are. I don’t recommend it.”

Gomez also talks with joy about her adult relationship -- as opposed to being Justin Bieber's fan girl -- with The Weeknd, who has his own celebrity gaggle on the cover of Harper's Bazaar US's September fashion issue. 

Selena Gomez Covered Vogue US April 2017 in a Spring Print Profusion

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Selena Gomez Covered Vogue US April 2017 in a Spring Print Profusion AOC Style & Fashion

Top American talent Selena Gomez, a third generation American-Mexican, delivered a short, visual desert cover story in the April 2017 issue of Vogue US. Photographer duo Mert & Marcus were behind the lens in this bit of spring delight.