Selena Gomez Says She Has Arthritis from Lupus — and It Influenced the Packaging for Her Beauty Brand

Selena Gomez is sharing really she arrived astatine easy, accessible packaging for her beauty brand.

The Rare Beauty founder, 33, revealed connected nan Sept. 9 Good Hang pinch Amy Poehler podcast that she struggles pinch arthritis from lupus and said her deficiency of dexterity ended up influencing nan packaging of her beauty products.

"I person arthritis successful my fingers, and that’s owed to my lupus,” Gomez shared. "So, I retrieve earlier nan brand, I was trying to unfastened a h2o vessel and it wounded really bad earlier I was connected nan correct medication." 

"And we someway inherently made nan products easy to open, and past we realized, hold — they benignant of person to beryllium that way," she explained. "And past we started to make each merchandise pinch nan volition of [working for] anybody who [has] dexterity problems."

Gomez launched nan marque successful September 2020, and it reportedly reached a $2 cardinal valuation successful 2024. It was praised online for its accessible products and applauded again pinch nan August motorboat of Rare Beauty’s new perfume. Unlike emblematic perfume bottles, location is nary headdress to remove. Instead, it dispenses nan scent pinch a fastener that tin beryllium toggled from locked to unlocked, past pushed. It's thing that makes Gomez particularly proud.

"I cognize that mightiness look for illustration a small thing, but it’s really not because it’s really truthful adjuvant for anyone astatine immoderate property to beryllium capable to usage nan products," nan character said. "And that’s why we want to make them easy and accessible, because it’s important to maine and it ever [has] been."

"So, moreover down to our fragrance, nan pump is very easy for maine to use," she added.

In 2013, nan Only Murders successful nan Building prima was diagnosed pinch lupus, a chronic illness that occurs erstwhile your body's immune strategy attacks your ain tissues and organs that has nary cure, per Mayo Clinic.

Since then, she has opened up astir nan difficulties she faced while dealing pinch lupus, particularly successful nan documentary My Mind & Me. During 1 scene, she shared, "Now it conscionable hurts successful nan morning. When I aftermath up, [I] instantly commencement crying because it hurts — for illustration everything."

In 2023, amid nationalist scrutiny for her weight, nan Wizards of Waverly Place prima revealed connected societal media that taking nan medicine often causes her to summation weight and vice versa.

"I conscionable want group to cognize that you're beautiful, and you're wonderful. Yeah, we person days wherever possibly we consciousness for illustration s---, but I would alternatively beryllium patient and return attraction of myself. My medications are important, and I judge that they're what helps me,” she said astatine nan time.