Selena Gomez Says She's Not Changing Her Name 'No Matter What' If She Gets Married: 'I Am Selena Gomez'

Mar. 15, 2025

Selena Gomez.Photo:Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty

Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty

IfSelena Gomezever ties the knot, she’s doing it as herself!

No matter what the future holds, the singer and actress, 32, has no plans to give up her last name, she revealed in her newVanity Faircover storypublished Monday, Sept. 9.

While discussing her relationship withBenny Blanco— and whether she sees wedding bells in their future — Gomez revealed that neither she nor her family are pressuring the producer and cookbook author into marriage.

She and Blanco, 36, “always make sure we’re protecting what we have, but there’s no rules,” she told the magazine.

“I want him to always be himself,” she added. “I always want to be myself.”

Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez.Selena Gomez/Instagram

Selena Gomez/Instagram

Being herself, she explained, includes maintaining her name, which she has used since she got her start in the industry onBarney & Friendsover two decades ago — and which is inextricable from her career, fromWizards of Waverly PlacetoRare Beauty.

“I’m not changing my name no matter what,” she toldVanity Fair. “I am Selena Gomez. That’s it.”

TheOnly Murders in the Buildingstar did not tease a marriage to Blanco explicitly, but she did tell the magazine that she has “never been loved this way.”

“He’s just been a light. A complete light in my life,” she said of the producer, whom she began dating after years of friendship in July 2023.

“He’s my best friend,” she added. “I love telling him everything.”

“He can’t lie,” she said of the producer, who joked that he’s “gotta get my act together” before proposing onTheHoward Stern Showin May. “After the interview, I was dying laughing. Like, ‘Anything else you wanted to put out there?’ ”

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco.Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times / Getty

Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times / Getty

The producer said the actress — who he described as “the coolest, nicest, sweetest” — is “truly is my best friend.”

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Gomez’sVanity Faircover story also comes after she opened up about how they spend time together, revealing thatcooking with her beau really “grounds her.”

“I love fresh foods and stuff. I’m starting to get into that kind of because of my boyfriend,” she said at a Rare Beauty virtual event on Sept. 4. “Just being in the garden and picking food that I’m going to be able to cook with.”

“It sounds so silly and minuscule but the older you get the more that you realize that it’s OK to just be simple and have simplicity,” she added.

source: people.com