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
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this chick and her decendeants are 100% mexican only that her dumb family trys to play it off trying to make them selfs look less mexican freaken losers.
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TRUE ONCE AGAIN, SOME MEXICANS LOOK WHITE!
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true that she is White you mother fucker!
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true is that she is White you mother fucker!
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mexicans are nt all brown sum kan look white duh u need to gt yo factz straight and read more often
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Selena Gomez is so freakin hot!!!
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thanks Anonymous, correction made
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she was born in grand prairie texas
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thanks for the comment LiL V4CH4. the profile has been edited.
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no she doesn’t have irish ancestry also because her mom is married to Brian Teefey who is Irish thats why… her mom’s maiden name is Cornett…
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Oh and the above comment that isabelle wrote not ALL mexicans are brown !
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selena ily so muCh mamita ; even though ur mexican yu make hispanics look goOd ; BiG UPS to ALL the LATiNOs::
pr,dr,mexi,cubans,columbians,ticas,haha all yu latinOs know the rest
ily selena !
ps. yo soy boricua =] !
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