Selena Gomez just lately opened up about her distinctive bond along with her mom, Mandy Teefey.

In a joint interview with Saoirse Ronan for Selection’s Actors on Actors sequence launched on Wednesday, the Emilia Perez star spoke candidly about how Ronan’s function as a teenage mom in Blitz, reminded her of her mom rising up.

“My mother had me when she was 16,” she famous. “I do really feel that we grew up collectively, and that’s a special perspective than somebody who would wait till they’re older to have a toddler.”

She added, “I’m so grateful that we had been there for one another. It felt very Gilmore Ladies.”

Regardless of her mom’s younger age, she was a fiercely protecting and vigilant mum or dad, her daughter mentioned. Gomez credit her mom’s protecting nature with serving to her navigate the challenges of younger fame.

“My mother was improbable,” the Solely Murders within the Constructing actor shared. “She would by no means put me in a room on my own; she was very conscious of issues that I didn’t know. For instance, if I needed to go to a premiere and I used to be 16, she’d say, ‘You possibly can’t go to the after-party. You possibly can have enjoyable, and then you definitely’re going to go house.’ Little issues that helped my sanity, if you’ll.”

This isn’t the primary time Gomez has publicly praised her mom. She has usually expressed gratitude for Teefey’s sacrifices and steering. In an E! particular, the “Single Quickly” singer mentioned she was grateful for her mom’s sacrifices and acknowledged the challenges her mom confronted as a younger mum or dad.

“Having me at 16 needed to have been an enormous duty,” Gomez mentioned. “My mother gave up every little thing for me and had, like, three jobs.”

In a profile executed by Time for his or her TIME Firsts multimedia venture, Gomez mentioned her mom performed an important function in shaping her self-confidence.

“She had the power to make me really feel like I used to be nonetheless able to doing something I wished,” the Uncommon Magnificence founder mentioned. “Once I began working, my mother was the particular person in my life that helped information me by means of most of that. Every thing that I’m has form of turn out to be a bit little bit of what my mother has gone by means of.”

In a March 2017 interview with Leisure Tonight, Teefey shared her experiences of turning into pregnant as a young person and giving delivery to Selena Gomez in 1992.

“I used to be a teen mother with Selena, clearly, and was very judged by that,” she defined.

“My neighborhood was a very tough neighborhood [with] gangs. With all of that stuff, and once I bought pregnant, I believe that’s what triggered, as a result of I used to be like ‘Okay, I’ve one other particular person relying on me. I gotta get straight,’ and that’s once I began hammering by means of. I’m like, ‘I’m not going to let her have the upbringing I did,’” she recounted.

She later married Brian Teefey in 2006 and gave delivery to their daughter, Gracie, in 2013.