Selena Gomez GQ Magazine Shoot Reveals She Has No Regrets About Being Cast in the Spotlight At A Young Age

Selena Gomez insists she has no regrets.

No regrets about having been cast in the spotlight for more than half her life and ever since she was just 10-years-old.

"I chose this," the now 23-year-old "Hands to Myself" singer recently told GQ magazine. "So I'm not gonna sit here and say, 'Oh, my God, poor me. I didn't have a normal childhood.' I don't give a f--k about that."

Gomez has Sympathy for Other Young Child Stars

Yet, at the same time, Gomez admits she has great sympathy for all those who have walked in her shoes.

"We're easy targets," she said of young child stars. "Every single kid who was brought up like this is an easy target. It's disgusting, because it's interesting to grown adults that these kids go through weird things because they're figuring out, 'Do I like this? Do I love this?'"

It's all taken its toll on Justin Bieber's on-again, off-again ex, who is rumored to have had a stint in rehab back in early 2014. Gomez attributes much of her struggles back then to having replaced her mother as her manager and having been diagnosed with the Lupus.

"First off, this is something that everyone always wants to fixate on," she said. "I got diagnosed with lupus. My mom had a very public miscarriage. So I had to cancel my tour. I needed time to just be okay, and I was going through chemotherapy."

That all now seems like ancient history to Gomez, who insists she simply wants to move on to bigger and brighter things.

"I just have to be patient," she added. "It's slowly dissolving the older I get. And I just have to be patient and make great things with quality, from producing to singing to acting."

Gomez's Popularity, Influence on the Rise

Besides, it's not as if Gomez is enjoying more than her share of successes. She recently signed on with Freeform to executive produce a TV drama series billed as a Latina "Empire."

In addition, Gomez was recently officially branded the most followed person on Instagram. She now has at least 69.1 million followers, just a shade more than gal-pal Taylor Swift who counts 69 million followers.