Selena Gomez was poised for stardom from the moment that she was named after the slain singer of the same first name. Growing up primarily under the watch of her actress mother, Mandy Teefey, she observed with eager eyes as her mom acted in stage shows and decided early on that she wanted to try the same thing. As a child of the "Barney the Friendly Dinosaur" generation, she naturally made her acting debut on the PBS series Barney & Friends, which was filmed when she was beginning elementary school but didn’t air until 2002.
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