Born to a teenage mother, she wants all young girls to know they have a voice. This is the life of Selena Gomez.
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00:00I mean, I always say from, it just starts with your voice, it just starts with you telling your friend, who could tell a friend, who could tell their friend, and you could all start something together, and that could just be from one voice.
00:10The whole thing that I'm proud of is being able to be role models for young girls.
00:31My family always encouraged me to give back, so everything that I did was always out of supporting other people. I mean, my mom was always like, be nice and be kind and be humble.
00:50I started working when I was seven, and I definitely sometimes wish that I could have had a different upbringing, just not sure I should have been involved that young. It's just, for me, made me a bit guarded.
01:20Our families ended up homeschooling us together, so we were homeschooled throughout our entire middle school slash high school year, and then we moved to L.A. together, so our families actually lived in a home together for a little bit while I started working on my series.
01:50I am not old enough to vote, but I will be sooner or later.
02:09You walk up to kids today, and you ask them about global warming and issues like that, and half of them look at you and think, what's that? And that's sad, because they don't know what's going on and what's going to happen if we don't start working on this issue now.
02:34I feel very honored to have a voice that kids listen to and take into consideration. I think it's very sweet. So for me, I'm very happy that I can use my voice for things like this to educate kids.
02:50I just only want to share it to all the girls out there that you have a voice, that you have a chance to just do what you love, whether that is acting or singing, and just being true to who you are.
03:20I am getting a little bit older, so I wanted to push myself and kind of get into a little bit more of an indie world, and it was a really great experience for me. But at the same time, it has been, of course, a little awkward, but great.
03:50The older I've gotten and the way that I've seen men online talk about me definitely bugs me.
04:17But I just, I don't know, you look at my Instagram and it's not like hot photos. It's just, you know, my life. I like to share bits and pieces that I want to share of my life with them. It is nice to be intimate.
04:47When we started production, I was going through some stuff in my personal life, and it was weird to see how the message of the story was actually reflecting what I was going through personally.
05:17The thought of asking somebody to do that was really difficult for me.
05:25She came in and held my hand, and she said, are you good? I was like, yeah.
05:47I've been working with an organization for over, almost over a year, and it's just all human trafficking, from child labor to, I don't want to get too graphic.
06:15That's one of the big causes I'm fighting for right now.