Selena Gomez praised for unfiltered look

Selena Gomez made a bold statement Wednesday when she posted three candid selfies to Instagram in which she’s rocking comfy sweats and her curly hair down — and without makeup.

The 30-year-old singer, who reportedly started dating Drew Taggart of ‘The Chainsmokers’ recently, posted the casual pictures, complete with a small blemish above her lip, following recent comments from her fans about her hands shaking.

Gomez posted the photos to her Instagram account with a simple caption.

“Me,” the singer wrote.

Fans of the ‘Calm Down’ singer responded to the photo by commending the star for posting a photo of her natural beauty.

“Natural beauty,” one person wrote, while others commented, “Most beautiful ever,” and “You beauty!”.

Another fan had a lengthier response, commenting on Gomez’s bravery.

“Finally a celebrity who shows herself without filters or masks of make up,” the person wrote. “Maybe social media could really help on knowing eachother, not just selling ourself in our better version even if it’s a fake. We count “likes” and views like they would be a valuation of our image like “globally accepted”, but the standard we follow is wrong.”

Gomez gets real about Lupus

After posting a TikTok makeup tutorial video in January, some of the star’s fans commented that her hands were shaking, to which she replied that it was due to an illness.

“Lol I shake because of my medication for Lupus,” she singer wrote before quipping, “also read my disclaimer I ain’t no Pro.”

Selena Gomez was diagnosed with lupus in 2014, and received a kidney transplant in 2017.

She recently talked about the disease and the fear and pain that come with it in an interview with Jay Shetty.

“Ignoring it is not fun, I’ve done that before you just end up coping in ways that you never thought that you would and you end up feeling disappointed,” Gomez said.

“I never wanted the pain that I endured to put some sort of guard on myself and armor, if you will. And I never, I never let that happen because I still believe, and I still hope, I hope for love, and I hope for healing, and I hope for change.’

In the nearly two hour long interview, Gomez said that the greatest gift of all is being honest and real with people.

“The greatest gift I got from all of that was me actually being honest with people. Sharing my story, and gaining the confidence to know I am enough,” she said. “I always say that there’s blessing in the breaking and every moment that you encounter in your life.”

“There is no perfect way to heal. There is no perfect way of dealing with something.”