Selena Gomez is celebrating her little sister, Gracie Elliot Teefey’s twelfth birthday with a social media put up devoted to the moments the sisters have shared over the years. Alongside photographs of the two sisters, Gomez wrote an emotional message for her sister that acknowledged,
“Completely happy birthday to my child sissy. As I cry scripting this, my coronary heart melts as a result of I do know you realize I’m all the time in your aspect. It doesn’t matter what. I really like you child woman”
Selena Gomez has three youthful half-siblings. Her dad and mom, Rick Gomez and Mandy Teefey, separated when Gomez was 5. Rick later married Sara Gomez, with whom he shares two kids, Marcus and Victoria, in accordance to Latin Instances. Mandy married Brian Teefey, and collectively they’ve Gracie.
In 2011, Selena Gomez introduced that her mom, Mandy, was anticipating one other youngster. Nonetheless, Mandy skilled a miscarriage. Since then, the family has honored the youngster, named Scarlett, in accordance to Individuals Journal.
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Ricardo “Rick” Joel Gómez, the son of Mexican immigrants to the U.S., grew to become concerned with Mandy Teefey whereas they had been each in highschool in Grand Prairie, Texas. In accordance to Individuals Journal, Mandy gave start to Selena Gomez when she was 16 years outdated. Each Gomez and Mandy have been open about their early lives. Throughout a dialog with Leisure Tonight in 2017, Mandy recalled the challenges she confronted as a ‘teen mother.’ At the time, Mandy stated,
“I used to be a teen mother with Selena, clearly, and was very judged by that, even by my counselors and my lecturers [who said] that I failed and simply let go of it. My neighborhood was a extremely tough neighborhood [with] gangs.”
Sharing that changing into pregnant with Gomez shifted her perspective, Mandy stated,
“With all of that stuff, and once I received pregnant, I feel that is what triggered, as a result of I used to be like, ‘OK, I’ve one other individual relying on me. I gotta get straight,’ and that is once I began hammering by means of. I am like, ‘I am not going to let her have the upbringing I did.’ I type of stored powering by means of — you get used to it.”
Gomez has additionally referred to the sacrifices her mom made to help her. In accordance to Glamour, the pop star, throughout an occasion in 2013, stated,
“My mother had me when she was 16, and I’m from Grand Prairie, Texas. And she labored 4 jobs and fully devoted her life into making mine higher. So, to me, she’s the definition of a powerful lady, and I really like her a lot.”
In accordance to Individuals Journal, Mandy Teefey and her husband, Brian Teefey, managed Selena Gomez’s profession till 2014. Gomez collaborated with her mom to produce the Netflix sequence 13 Causes Why. The mother-daughter duo additionally co-founded the psychological well being group Wondermind.
Throughout a dialog with Rolling Stone, Gomez, who rose to fame as a baby actor on Barney, shared that her father Rick was not snug juggling the leisure business. She stated,
“he didn’t need to be part of this business life, so it was actually me and my mother, our journey.”
Even so, Rick Gomez often shares tributes to his eldest daughter on social media, together with glimpses of his different kids.
Edited by Yesha Srivastava