Selena Gomez, one of the most followed people on Instagram, says that she does not have the app on her phone

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• In a morning talk show, Selena Gomez said he did not have the Instagram application on his phone
• C & # 39; is surprising for Gomez, an actress whose 152 million Instagram followers make her the third most watched star of the platform.
• Gomez is candid about the effects of social media on his mental health and his generation of phone-addicted fans.
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Selena Gomez is perhaps one of the most followed people on Instagram, but the actress recently revealed that she did not even have the sharing app pictures on his phone.

Gomez, who has 152 million Instagram followers, is a virulent critic of the "dangerous" effects of social media and has not hesitated to take breaks on social platforms to take care of his own Mental Health. However, it is still a little surprising that Gomez does not have the application on his phone. She says that she logs in "periodically" on Instagram on someone else's phone to check her account.

"I became really unhealthy, I personally think, for the young people, including myself, to spend all their time concentrating on all those comments and leaving those things, and that's me touched, "said Gomez. on "Live with Kelly and Ryan" on Wednesday. "It would depress me, it would hurt me and look at my body differently, and all sorts of things."

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Gomez is the third most followed person on Instagram behind football star Cristiano Ronaldo (170 million followers) and singer Ariana Grande (157 million followers) .Although she once held first place, Gomez has maintained its popularity, even though she did not show as much success as celebrities with half of her followers.

By the end of 2018, Gomez took a four-month break on Instagram, partly to because of negative comments she had received, as well as her personal problems with mental health issues, she returned to the platform in January and warned of "terrible" social media the tour of his latest movie, "Dead D "On Die".

At the Cannes Film Festival last month, Gomez explained how social media was prejudicial to his obsessed generation by the phone and the importance of limiting time on platforms like Instagram.

"I would say for my generation, especially for social media The media have really been terrible, it scares me when you see how much these young boys and girls are exposed," Gomez told the festival, "It scares me. I'm going to meet these girls and greet them. They are devastated, face bullying and can not have their own voice. "