Selena Gomez is all grown up in the photos for the feature story of the July 2012 Elle mag, rocking an Yves Saint Laurent Metal chain dress and leather belt with accessories from Tiffany & Co.
The 19-year-old singer and actress opened up in the article on Justin Bieber, growing up poor and working with Disney.
On boyfriend Justin Bieber renting out L.A.’s Staples Center for a private Titanic screening:
“If I’ll share anything with you, it’s that he really is a hopeless romantic. I had just mentioned it in the car – all I said is that I really want to see Titanic again, and then …”
On growing up poor:
“I can remember about seven times when our car got stuck on the highway because we’d run out of gas money … [but my mom still] saved up to take me to concerts. She took me to museums, aquariums, to teach me about the world, about what’s real.”
On working with Disney:
“[It] is a machine, so people automatically assume that you can’t work for the channel unless you act and sing and dance and sign up for all that. That’s absolutely not true. I always did everything the way I wanted to do it.”
On choosing roles: “I get offered the teenybopper movies, and I’ve done that. I haven’t done a mega-hundred-billion-dollar Transformers movie, but that’s not what I want to do either.”