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Selena Gomez has announced that she’s engaged to Benny Blanco.
The actress and singer, 32, announced that she and her producer boyfriend, 36, are planning to tie the knot after over a year of dating.
Selena shared the news via an Instagram carousel on Wednesday, showing off an enormous ring in pictures with Benny.
She wrote in the caption: ‘Forever begins now…’
Benny commented on the post: ‘Hey wait… that’s my wife.’
Taylor Swift also chimed in, commenting, ‘Yes I will be the flower girl’ alongside Jennifer Aniston who wrote, ‘HONEY!! Congratulations sweet mama!’
Selena also posted a mirror selfie with her new ring on her Instagram stories.
The couple had known each other for years through the music industry before they began dating in June 2023.
They met when they collaborated on the 2019 single I Can’t Get Enough with Tainy and J Balvin.
The Only Murders In The Building actress first confirmed romance rumours back in 2023, when she responded ‘Facts.’ to a post from Popfactions after the Instagram page said she ‘seemingly confirms’ that she is ‘in a relationship.’
After a fan shaded their relationship in the comments of the post, she replied: ‘Lol yeah and he’s still better than anyone I’ve ever been with. Facts.;
She added: ‘He has been the best thing that’s ever happened to me.’
‘He is my absolute everything in my heart,’ she wrote under a post on fan page @Selenagomezbr2.0, while in she revealed their have been together for six months.
Earlier this year, Benny also made it clear how he feels about Selena, saying during an appearance on the Howard Stern Show: ‘When I look at her … I’m always just like, I don’t know a world where it could be better than this.’
Speaking to Time Magazine, Selena previously revealed that she’d had plans to adopt a baby before meeting Benny, sharing that she got ‘used to’ being alone before the music producer came along, and had considered adopting a child when she turned 35, if she was still single.
‘I was alone for five years, and I got really used to it. A lot of people are afraid of being alone and I probably tortured myself in my head for like two years being alone, and then I kind of accepted it,’ she said.
‘Then I came up with my plan, which was I was going to adopt at 35 if I had not met anyone.’
Selena has previously spoken out about starting her own family, sharing that she may not be able to carry a child herself due to risks associated with her bipolar medication.
‘That’s a very big, big, present thing in my life,’ she told Rolling Stone in 2022. ‘However if I’m meant to have them, I will.’
The Disney icon has also had her fair share of high-profile romances, having dated Justin Bieber and The Weeknd in the past.
Who is Benny Blanco, Selena Gomez’s new fiance?
Record producer and songwriter Benny Blanco (real name Benjamin Joseph Levin) has worked with many of the biggest names in music as a record producer.
From Rihanna and Britney Spears to Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran, he’s got songwriting credits on huge hits like RiRi’s Diamonds, Lizzo banger Grrrls and SZA’s Nobody Gets me.
Originally a mentee of infamous record producer Dr. Luke, Blanco co-produced and co-wrote many songs, including hits such as Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream, Kesha’s TiK ToK, and Taio Cruz’s Dynamite while being mentored by Dr. Luke.
Benny is also an artist himself, having dropped his debut solo album Friends Keep Secrets in 2018.
He’s also written a cookbook called Open Wide, having been inspired at the age of 13 when a friend got a George Foreman grill.
‘It changed my life forever,’ he wrote on Instagram earlier this year, admitting while ‘cooking is scary,’ it’s worth taking the plunge, as he added: ‘Once you get into it, it’ll be ur new addiction, it’s like meditating.’
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