Selena Gomez just gave fans a health update they weren’t expecting. In an Instagram Stories video on Sunday, October 18th, she revealed that years of vaping nicotine changed her voice. She didn’t downplay it either: she said she vaped“a lot”and recently stopped, calling nicotine“so hard to quit.”Her warning to anyone thinking about starting?“It’s just not worth it.”
The timing landed right on top of ongoing chatter about how her voice sounds. Rather than dodge the comments, Gomez addressed them head-on, telling anyone bothered by it that they’re welcome to stop listening. It’s not the first time her health has come up publicly either. She’s spoken before about her throat swelling internally, and she’s been open about living with lupus and her 2017 kidney transplant. Now she can add quitting nicotine to the list, which she says she’s genuinely happy about. Fans are already flooding socials with support, and she’s also gearing up for the December 8th return of Only Murders in the Building.
Vaping is still a huge conversation for young adults, and hearing someone with her platform say the quiet part out loud makes it stick in a way warnings sometimes don’t. So, are you more likely to cut back on a habit after a celebrity opens up about theirs, or does that not really move you?
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