Selena Gomez Urges Everyone To Support Fight Against Lupus

Selena Gomez is one of the few musicians who has been quite vocal about her struggles regarding her health and never shies away from revealing how she got through some of the toughest times in her life. The musician had to face a lot of difficulties while suffering from lupus and experienced a lot of fluctuations in her weight.

To spread awareness about the disease and how people should take it seriously, the 27-year-old singer has urged her fans to donate to the Lupus Research Alliance, an organization that is doing a study to find a cure for the disease.

Taking it to Twitter, the “Lose You To Love Me” hitmaker noted that the organization is trying to raise awareness about the autoimmune disease and people should help the people behind it by donating money. Gomez further stated that the initiative is quite important to her personally because she has suffered from the illness.

“Today is #WorldLupusDay where we raise awareness for this complex autoimmune disease. [heart emoji] If you're able to make a donation to the @lupusresearch Alliance, please click this link: https://give.lupusresearch.org/give/123231/#!/donation/checkout. It’s so important to me personally since I have struggled with Lupus for years. Thinking of all others also affected by this disease,” Gomez wrote.

The “Good For You” singer opened up about lups in 2015 when she announced that she was diagnosed with it. In September 2017, Gomez revealed that she had to go through a kidney transplant due to her condition.

Her best friend and fellow actress Francia Raisa donated a kidney to her.

Since then, she has been raising awareness about lupus by talking about it in various interviews. Last year, the acclaimed musician explained how suffering from lupus gave her nightmares and contributed to other issues that affected her mental and physical health. Gomez shared that she had to take numerous kinds of medicines for lupus and high blood pressure which resulted in an oscillation of her weight.

But she admitted that she felt really disheartened when people started to attack her for gaining weight when they did not know what she was going through.

The singer further stated that this was one of the main reasons why she decided to leave social media for a bit.