Name: ENGLISH SPEECH | SELENA GOMEZ: Trust Yourself (English Subtitles)
Uploaded: 2025-12-29T16:20:03.000Z
Duration: 7 min 25 s
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I have to say that it's such an honor to be here.

I'm like a nerd and brought my own speech.

But I hope it's okay that I take this opportunity to really just spend with you guys and tell you a little bit about my story.

I haven't changed the world or led a campaign.

I'm here to just tell you my path so that you hopefully can take something away from it.

I don't like being honest with press and interviews.

I like being honest with you directly, which is each and every one of you, because I feel like I can.

And I'm just going to start with the basics.

My mom had me when she was 16, and I'm from Grand Prairie, Texas, and

she worked four jobs and completely dedicated her life into making mine better.

So to me, she is the definition of a strong woman.

And I love her so much because she's taught me those values so much.

I have been acting my entire life, and I have known since I was first on Barney.

You know, that purple dinosaur that I hung out with?

When I was 11, the point being is, when I was 7, I wanted to be an actress and I wanted to live my dream.

And When I was 11, I had a casting director tell me that I wasn't strong enough to carry my own show.

And I'm sure all of you have been told that you don't have what it takes and that you may not be good enough.

And you don't have enough people supporting you.

And you're being told all of these things when deep down, it's all you want to do.

You want to be a part of something great.

You want to make something great, and it does more than knock the wind out of you.

It crushes you when people try to tell you that you're not good enough.

But there was my mom next to me, stronger than ever.

And she said the most important thing is to always trust in myself.

If I'm doing something because I love it, I should do it because I love it, and

she taught Me to turn the other cheek and let the credits, or let the critics be critics and let us just trust ourselves.

The first thought wasn't, oh, man, that girl when I was 11, said I wouldn't carry my own show.

I mean, I thought about that for a little bit, but I thought about what my mom said.

My mom was like, you have to trust yourself.

And I realized if I didn't believe that I could do it, I wouldn't be able to be here.

I'm going to say I live a very blessed life.

And a lot of you are a big part of inspiring me, because I don't think you get it, and

maybe you're not told enough, but you inspire me to be better, and

we should inspire each other to be better.

I'm surrounded by people who are supposed to guide me.

And some of them have and others haven't.

You gotta be sexy, you gotta be cute, you gotta be nice, you gotta be all these things.

You all have pressure that you have to deal with every day.

I'm sure with school, with work, with friends, with parents, with family, with parents.

I know sometimes with mine, they tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be.

Until recently, I had given into that pressure.

I tried to change who I am because I thought that others would accept me for it.

And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.

And all I really want you to know is that you are changing the world.

Please, please, just be kind to each other and love and inspire people.

The most important thing is that we learn and we continue to learn from each other.

Please just remain who you are and know that we have each other's back.

I'd be lying if I said that I've never tried to make myself better by giving in, because I have.

And for all the things I've done, I'm proudest of that I've learned from my mistakes.

I want you to know what it's like, that I know what it's like figuring out what types of friends you have.

So I just want to say I hope I can inspire each and every one of you to just trust yourselves and to love and to be loved.

And thank you for allowing me to come up and ramble and talk to you guys, because this is such a beautiful thing you're doing.

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