Selena Gomez Can’t Wait to Share this movie with Her Future Children
- Sep 9
- 3 min read
Updated: Sep 10
9 September 2025
Selena Gomez walked onto the Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast on September 9, ready for an interview but what she delivered was something more heartfelt than promotional chatter. With her warmth and authenticity shining through the airwaves, she confessed that two films from the Inside Out franchise moved her so deeply that she's certain her future children must watch them one day.
The emotional weight of the conversation rose when Selena described watching the first Inside Out with her younger sister Gracie, then 12 years old. As the Pixar film unraveled the complex emotions of Riley, an 11-year-old girl navigating upheaval and adolescence, both sisters couldn't hold back tears. Selena called it "so factual" and said that she was completely broken by how accurately the film captured the delicate truths of human emotion.
She chuckled ruefully when she quipped that perhaps schools should assign it as required viewing. Reference to the sequel came naturally when host Amy Poihler noted how Inside Out 2 explores the experience of anxiety, a sentiment universal to ages and stages. Selena nodded in agreement her fascination with the human mind and longing to educate through storytelling made her declaration poignant and real.
"I watched it with my sister, and I completely sobbed," Selena said, her voice tinged with nostalgia. "It would break my heart. It’s educational. It’s emotional. It’s incredible." The moment felt deeply personal, and fans across the globe nodded in recognition a movie, deeply felt, becoming a teaching tool, a shared memory, a moment of epiphany.
The actress and singer, engaged to music producer Benny Blanco since December, has been candid about her excitement for motherhood. Earlier this year, she expressed on The Jay Shetty Podcast that she has a love for children and a longing to one day share simple joys like laughter and connection with little ones of her own. “I don’t know what will happen, obviously, but I love children,” she said then. Now, her heart set on certain stories, she adds emotional resonance to that picture these aren’t just sweet tales, but mirrors to the mind.
Selena’s statement was both signature and subtle. No extravagant reveal, no star-studded production, just a shared tear, a lesson recognized, and sincere intent. She spoke of the power those films wield how they treat emotional growth not as narrative fat, but as story’s core. At thirty-three years old, watching the next generation on screen and referencing the psychological rigors of growing up, she invited listeners into a quietly profound space of shared humanity.
Amy Poehler, who voices Joy in the films, chimed in with warmth. She noted that anxiety, the centerpiece of Inside Out 2 is part of the human experience at every age. Young people feel it now; adults live in echoes of it each stage colored by memory and nuance. It’s part of growing up, Poehler said. “It’s brutal but it’s part of life.” Selena nodded.
Even more touching was Selena’s tone as she concluded: “I’m gonna make my children watch it. They don’t exist yet, but I can’t wait.” No fanfare or flash, just vulnerability and honest excitement for family, for teaching, for learning.
This gentle moment offers a window into the broader arc of Selena’s life today. From Disney stardom to music and through deeply personal growth, the spotlight has sharpened on her but she remains tethered to sincerity. Her marriage to fame has become one grounded in service and connection, not performance.
As Selena prepares for her next life chapter, this conversation lingers not in headlines, but in emotional truth. She wants her future children to know what she learned through tears and laughter, in darkness and light. That fears and joys both matter. That what moves us also educates us.
In a culture crowded with spectacle, Selena offered something rare: a genuine tribute to emotion, to psychology, to childhood, and to motherhood. She may still be years from settling into family life but in heartfelt images like these, we already see the blueprint of the mother she hopes to become.
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