Selena Gomez is officially a billionaire. According to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, the 32-year-old actress, singer, investor, and entrepreneur is now one of the youngest self-made billionaires in the country, with an astounding $1.3 billion to her name. But her journey to this point wasn’t easy.
“I can remember about seven times when our car got stuck on the highway because we’d run out of gas money,” Gomez told Elle in 2012, recounting her time growing up in poverty with her then-teen mom Mandy Teefey.
