Selena Gomez was born on July 22,1992 in Grand Prarie,Texas. She was named after the late tejano Selena. Her parents are ricardo gomez and mandy teefy. When she was really little not even one yet her parents split and then her mom met brian her stepdad. Now her mom was a actress and when selena was little she would watched her mom act and she told her mom that she wanted to be a actress and then when selena was 7 she auditioned to be on barney and that is when she met demi! Since then they have been best friends! She did that for a while and then appeared on Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Then on hannah montana as mikayla. Then she auditioned for wizards of waverly place and that is an awesome show. So right now she is dating justin bieber and everybody's mad because of it i dont see a problem its a normal couple just on tv.