Selena Gomez Proudly Shows Off Kidney Transplant Scar After Covering Up For Years
Selena Gomez is confident in the skin she’s in ― scars and all.
For the first time, the singer proudly showed off one of her kidney transplant scars in a photo posted to Instagram on Thursday, posing poolside in a sky-blue bathing suit.
“When I got my kidney transplant, I remember it being very difficult at first showing my scar. I didn’t want it to be in photos, so I wore things that would cover it up,” she wrote in the caption. “Now, more than ever, I feel confident in who I am and what I went through ... and I’m proud of that.”
Gomez went on to declare that “all bodies are beautiful” before giving a shoutout to the bathing suit designer.
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Gomez, a former Disney Channel star who recently launched her Rare Beauty cosmetics company, became severely ill due to complications from lupus, an autoimmune disease that has plagued her for years. She underwent a kidney transplant with an organ from her friend, actor Francia Raisa, in 2017.
During the procedure, she experienced emergency complications that required surgeons to remove a femoral vein from her leg and construct a new artery to support Raisa’s kidney, which left additional scarring.
