Selena Gomez, 32, is engaged to boyfriend Benny Blanco, 36, after 1 Year of dating and a recent TikTok challenge few weeks ago where Selena reveals who said ‘I love you’ first… And also announce they are expecting a… See More

He is my absolute everything in my heart,” Gomez gushed on Instagram in December, responding to speculation that the two had taken their relationship from platonic to romantic.

“It’s crazy how your partner could just be sitting there the whole time, right in front of your eyes, and you don’t even notice,” Blanco

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco attend a basketball game on Jan 3, 2024.
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In fact, the duo’s relationship dates even further back than either of them initially realized. Take a walk down memory lane to see how Gomez and Blanco’s love story has unfolded.We both met each other almost 16, 17 years ago when she was just getting into music, before we, obviously we made a bunch of songs together, but before we had made any music together, I was one of her first big meetings right around when she was just leaving Disney to make her own music. Neither one of us remembered the meeting, but her mom remembered it and was just like, ‘Yeah, you guys were 18,’ and everyone was like, ‘You can’t get a meeting with Benny Blanco,’ and this was at the very beginning of her career.”