Birth Name: Selena Marie Gomez
Birth Place: Grand Prairie, Texas, United States
Date of Birth: July 22, 1992
Ethnicity: Mexican, English and Italian
The singer and actress was born in Grand Prairie, Texas. She starred on the Disney Channel Original Series, Wizards of Waverly Place.
In an article at Nydailynews.com it mentions that her father, Ricardo Gomez is of Mexican descent and her mother, Mandy Cornett has Italian heritage. In an interview Gomez stated that her mother is half Italian, the other half may be English as the surname Cornett is English.
Gomez’s parents separated when she was 5 years old and Mandy later married Brian Teefy. Gomez is able to speak some Spanish but not fluently. Her nationality is American.
Source:
- http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/
- http://www.philstar.com/ArticlePrinterFriendly.aspx?articleId=525614
- PHOTO BY dFREE/BIGSTOCK.COM
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keep it up mexicans! yuh are makeing us look grat .yuhr so pretty :) we love yuh
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she is not Mexican! without the English and Italian part of her (or without her mother who is 50% Italian and 50% English) Selena wouldn’t exist because her Mexican dad couldn’t give birth to her!
and stop being so racist… she is White and come over it! she is 90% White and 10% Native so she is 1000000% White those 10% are like nothing! greets
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yuh are awsome selena gomez yuh represent us with much love yuhr awsome and yuh just inspire me all the wayy!
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na u can tell she is mexican and half italian or some sort shes mad pretty cte babyface
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YAY! more latinas.
she’s so nice, saying that she dosent deny her race.
Unlike Miss Jessica Alba saying shes not mexican wtf?
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selena wutz good mamaz u rock big ups 2 demi aswell bombs of luv
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I did know she was Mexican bit if you didn’t know her you would of thought she was puerto rican
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i knew she was italian! cuz alotta mexicans have brown skin.
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yes she may because her mom is only half Italian
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Her middle name is Marie
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Here’s the website that confirms her ethnicity: http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2008/03/22/2008-03-22_teen_star_selena_gmez_looks_beyond_disne.html (Can you please change that to be accurate? thanks!)
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