Selena Gomez isn’t here to over-explain herself — especially when it comes to her voice.
During an Instagram Live on Dec. 16, the 33-year-old singer and actress responded to a fan question about why her speaking voice seems different at times, a topic that’s sparked ongoing speculation online. The moment, which was later reposted on X, showed Gomez striking a balance between vulnerability and boundary-setting.
“Yeah I’ve gotten this question a few times. The voice thing. So, sometimes when I’m on — nevermind,” she began, before quickly pivoting. “There’s no excuse. I don’t really care.”
Still, Gomez went on to offer a simple explanation — without drama or apology.
“I think my point is, is that sometimes things happen,” she said. “I get weird. My throat kind of swells inside sometimes. That’s all.”
The candid moment resonated with fans who’ve followed Gomez’s health journey over the years. The Rare Beauty founder has long been open about living with lupus and bipolar disorder, and how those diagnoses affect her day-to-day life — both personally and professionally.
In a September episode of “Good Hang with Amy Poehler,” Gomez revealed that lupus has caused arthritis in her hands, something that directly influenced how she built her beauty brand. “I have arthritis in my fingers, and that’s due to my lupus,” Gomez shared at the time. “So, I remember before the brand, I was trying to open a water bottle and it hurt really bad before I was on the right medication.”
That experience helped shape Rare Beauty’s famously user-friendly packaging.
“And we somehow inherently made the products easy to open, and then we realized, wait — they kind of have to be that way,” she explained. “And then we started to make every product with the intention of [working for] anybody who [has] dexterity problems.”
More recently, Gomez has continued to address health-related curiosity with humor. Last week, she shared a makeup-free Instagram Stories video responding to a fan question that made her laugh.
“Someone made me laugh because they asked me, ‘How do you shave your mustache?’” she said.
Gomez clarified that what people were noticing wasn’t facial hair at all. She explained, “I take care of it and treat it, but yeah it’s there,” referring to melasma-related discoloration.
