Selena Gomez always found Benny Blanco to be “funny” – but she never imagined they would get engaged.
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco are engaged
The 33-year-old star first met her future fiance while she was still a teenager, and although she always found the record producer to be a lot of fun, Selena never thought they would have a romantic future together.
During an appearance on the Therapuss with Jake Shane podcast, Selena shared: “We met when I was 16 because we were going to possibly work together but I didn’t start releasing music until 17/18 officially and so we saw each other around.
“It was nice and then I don’t know. I feel like he was an acquaintance, if that makes sense?
“To be honest, I wasn’t besties. I just thought he was nice and then we did a few songs together. Same Old Love, which was awesome and we had a great time, nothing really there. And then I Can’t Get Enough, which was with Tainy and J Balvin, didn’t get it there either.”
Selena didn’t consider Benny, 37, to be a potential romantic partner for many years. However, her attitude changed over time and they’re now set to the tie the knot.
The brunette beauty explained: “I was so not … you know when you realise you’re not in that place anymore you need to be where you are? It’s all about timing to meet that person even if I did think, ‘Oh I need to take this a step forward then it wouldn’t have worked’. Simply you just have to be there mentally in order to move forward with something healthy.
“Then we reunited for Single Soon … it wasn’t our favourite … just because I can say this cause I’m marrying him. Just really wasn’t what I thought I wanted so he came in and he agrees on a lot of levels but he just came in and I was like oh ‘Hi Benny’ and we spoke for two hours and I asked him to hook me up with anybody that he knew that was cute and he was like, ‘Oh we do these things, these dinner nights. You should come’ … and next thing you know we’re dating.”
