Selena Gomez Becomes First Woman to Reach 400 Million Instagram Followers
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On Friday, just a few weeks after dethroning Kylie Jenner on Instagram, Selena Gomez became the first woman to have 400 million followers on the photo-based social media platform. Kylie isn’t too far behind with 382 million Insta fans, but Selena has been pulling ahead fast.
There are still two people with more followers than Selena on Instagram, soccer players Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, who have 562 million followers and 442 million followers, respectively.
Selena has been the most followed woman before, wearing the crown in 2019 before Ariana Grande and then Kylie took the title. Surprisingly, Selena’s comeback takes place in the midst of her retreat from social media. She recently told Vanity Fair she only has the TikTok app on her phone and has tried to put “filters” in place to protect herself from trolls and hurtful comments.
“People can call me ugly or stupid and I’m like, whatever,” Selena explained. “But these people get detailed. They write paragraphs that are so specific and mean. I would constantly be crying. I constantly had anxiety.…I couldn’t do it anymore. It was a waste of my time.”
The Only Murders in the Building actor said that social media made her feel “inundated with information” she didn’t want.
“I went through a hard time in a breakup and I didn’t want to see any of the [feedback]—not necessarily about the relationship but the opinions of me versus [someone] else,” she went on. “There’d be thousands of really nice comments, but my mind goes straight to the mean one.…There are wonderful things about social media—connecting with fans, seeing how happy and excited they are and their stories. But usually, that’s filtered through [for me now]. I created a system. Everything I do, I send to my assistant, who posts them. As far as comments, my team will put together a few things that are encouraging.”
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