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# Selena Gomez Is Vogue's Best Cover in a While
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/selena-gomez-is-vogues-best-cover-in-a-while-03-2021/
- Published: 2021-03-10T18:00:02.000Z
- Updated: 2021-03-10T18:23:57.000Z
- Description: Welcome back, kiddo.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Fug The Cover, Vogue, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:15

[View the gallery](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/selena-gomez-april-2021-vogue/)

After a string of underwhelming covers, is it just me, or does this really work? It's nice to see Selena Gomez again -- she's been shooting her Hulu show with Steve Martin and Martin Short, and otherwise keeping a low pandemic profile. Considering how long she's been famous, the quiet period makes her feel like a fresh subject, [and the story by Jia Tolentino paints a very likable portrait.](https://www.vogue.com/article/selena-gomez-cover-april-2021?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) I particularly liked the observation that, unlike so many other celebrities, over time Gomez has seemed to soften rather than build a hard shell -- as if she started with one and has slowly let it erode, a note I think the cover shot hits very effectively. It's gently defiant, or defiantly gentle; either way, it matches.

Also, she's been doing a lot of work I didn't even know about, like this project:

> *Gomez has recently spoken about the fact that her paternal grandparents were undocumented. “It wasn’t for any reason that I didn’t share it before,” she says. “It’s just that as I started to see the world for what it is, all these things started to be like light bulbs going off.” \[...\] In 2019, she served as an executive-producer for the Netflix series* [*Living Undocumented*](https://www.netflix.com/title/80209609?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)*. “My goal was to communicate that these people are not ‘aliens’; they’re not whatever names other people have given them. They’re humans—they’re people,” she says.*

In short, she seems like a good kid, and I'm REALLY curious to see how her vibe plays off that of Steve and Martin.

###### \[Photos by Nadine Ijewere, story by Jia Tolentino; Vogue's April 2021 issue is available on newsstands nationwide on March 23rd\]