
Now 30, the former child actress turned singer, producer and businesswoman (her net worth is heading towards $100 million) has 67 million Twitter followers and is the most followed woman on Instagram (412 million), ahead of Kim Kardashian (353 million) and Beyoncé (306 million), and the third most-followed person on the site.


In the intervening years, her fame has risen to a stratosphere that even my obsessed little girls couldn't have predicted. It was me who loved 101 Dalmatians: their love was reserved for the shiny-brown-haired girl who popped up at the end singing 'Cruella De Vil'.Īnd that, dear reader, was the first time I encountered Selena Gomez. Truly, they preferred the bonus video to the film. They always wanted to watch it right to the end, not because they gave a stuff about the credits, but because the DVD (yes, it was that long ago) contained a bonus video.

Ten years ago, I was watching my favourite Disney film with my then young daughters.
