Selena Gomez is in celebration mode.

The Solely Murders within the Constructing star took to social media on Saturday to thank followers, buddies, and followers for all the great needs on her thirty first birthday. Sporting a pink shirt, pearl necklace, and lengthy, flowing brown hair, the actress and psychological well being advocate blew out the candles on her S-shaped chocolate cake, which was adorned with flowers on prime.

Whereas Gomez’s Instagram put up was in honor of her birthday, it additionally had a deeper context. Within the caption of her put up, the Disney Channel alum wrote about her position because the founding father of Uncommon Magnificence, a cosmetics firm, and her mission as an entrepreneur to assist others.

“I’m grateful for a lot in my life and one of many issues I’m most grateful for is the work we’ve been in a position to do with the Uncommon Influence Fund by @Rarebeauty,” wrote Gomez. “Due to YOU we’ve been in a position to increase consciousness and enhance entry to psychological well being providers for younger individuals. That is my true ardour in life.”

Gomez concluded her put up by stating that as a substitute of presents, she would favor individuals donate to the Uncommon Influence Fund, which supplies psychological well being providers and training to younger individuals. Gomez began the group alongside her cosmetics firm, Uncommon Magnificence by Selena Gomez.

“Individuals maintain asking me what I need for my birthday, and I inform everybody the identical factor. Please don’t get me something, however if you wish to do one thing for my birthday, please donate to the Uncommon Influence Fund,” Gomez included within the caption. “You probably have the means, take into account donating to assist us make a distinction.”

Psychological well being advocacy

Gomez has gotten candid about her personal psychological well being journey, notably within the final yr. In November of 2022, her documentary, Selena Gomez: My Thoughts & Me, was launched. Within the movie, she opened up about her years-long wrestle with bipolar dysfunction, which included a “psychotic break” that induced her to listen to voices.

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Now pleased and wholesome, Gomez stated she works laborious to remind herself why she’s alive.

“I simply continually remind myself that there’s a cause I’m right here,” she instructed Rolling Stone in a 2022 interview. “It sounds actually tacky once I say it generally, however I really don’t know the way else I’d be right here, merely based mostly on the medical stuff and balances in my head and conversations I’d had with myself [that were] actually darkish.”

Gomez has additionally parlayed her personal psychological well being journey right into a profession as an entrepreneur. After launching Uncommon Magnificence in 2020, the corporate has skyrocketed to success, with Bloomberg reporting final week that simply the blush class of the model has accounted for $70 million in gross sales. 1% of all Uncommon Magnificence by Selena Gomez gross sales are donated to the Uncommon Influence Fund.

Well being points

Gomez underwent a kidney transplant in 2017 because of her wrestle with lupus. Again in March, she opened up concerning the journey on on episode of Expensive…, an Apple TV+ sequence that profiles “game-changing icons.” Gomez stated she was impressed to assist others after she acquired a kidney from her pal, How I Met Your Father actress Francia Raisa.

“I believe that it needed to occur the way in which that it did to ensure that me to get to the place I’m,” Gomez defined on the Apple TV+ present. “I used to be meant to undergo it to do one thing for others.” Gomez additionally famous that the transplant was “a type of moments the place I felt watched over. I do know I used to be so, so, so fortunate. I perceive that that does not occur for lots of people and I do know the end result of a few of these conditions and the way critical they’re, so I don’t take it frivolously that it is occurred to me that method.”

In entrance of the digital camera

Whereas Gomez could also be recognized for her entrepreneurial endeavors nowadays, she’s additionally garnered vital approval for her work in entrance of the digital camera. Again in January, Gomez walked the purple carpet on the Golden Globe Awards, the place she was up for a statue within the “Finest Actress in a Musical or Comedy” class for Solely Murders within the Constructing, through which she portrays the snarky Mabel Mora reverse Steve Martin and Martin Quick.

“Oh my god,” Gomez exclaimed in a TikTok she shared shortly after studying of her nod. “I am so excited. I did not suppose I used to be gonna get — really, I do know I wasn’t gonna get nominated, or I assumed. However I am pleased.”