Selena Gomez

She was so young, still in school, and eventually tried every job you could possibly imagine.

She said, this is what we're going through, but I'm not going to stop.

I'm not going to give up.

I'm going to make life better than this.

But making life better would come at a cost.

I was proud because I got to go escape my life and be in Barneyland and just play and sing.

I don't know, I just fell in love with these escape things.

But eventually after doing this for so long, I started to feel veined.

It made me feel lonely somehow.

And then when I started touring, it just got worse.

My thoughts take over my mind often.

It hurts when I think about my past.

I want to know how to breathe again.

Do I love my own self?

How do I learn how to breathe my own breath?

I have the greatest friends and family.

Especially my mom and my stepdad, Brian.

My fears are only going to continue to show me what I'm capable of.

The more that I face my fears, the more that I feel I'm gaining strength and gaining wisdom and I just want to keep doing that.

You know, what I try to do is just try to be still and understand that things come and go, emotions come and go.