Selina Gomez is officially a billionaire but her journey to billionaire status wasn't on an easy Road the now 32-year-old says she grew up in poverty and even told El magazine how her then teenage mom's car would get stuck on the highway because they'd run out of gas money Gomez started acting at 10 years old on Barney and Friends Landing the lead role in Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place 5 years later her acting and music career have flourished with three Studio albums nine top 10 pop hits 44 singles and two Grammy nominations but her billions don't just come from acting and singing roughly 84% of Gomez's wealth $1.1 billion comes from a stake in her makeup brand rare Beauty which she founded just 5 years ago according to Bloomberg and she's one of the youngest self-made billionaires in the country