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Selena Gomez said she was 'stubborn' as a child, wanting 'to eat whatever I wanted.'Sure, Selena Gomez's close friend Demi Lovato struggled with an eating disorder, but the self-described "malnourished" star doesn't have the same problems.
"I do eat!" Gomez exclaimed on the "Kidd Kraddick in the Morning" radio show on Wednesday.
Gomez, who previously said her hospitalization last week was due to exhaustion and malnourishment, explained she just doesn't make the best choices when it comes to food.
"The problem is that I don't eat right," she explained. "I love everything that's possibly not good for me."
Gomez, 18, is a candy junkie ? preferring M&Ms, Kits Kats and Snickers, among others ? and said she can't even eat broccoli without some cheese on it.
But mother Mandy is making sure the singer-actress takes better care of herself.
"She's been supermom right now," Gomez said. "She's definitely shoving vitamins down my throat and following me around."
The radio show hosts also grilled her on her love life with Justin Bieber. Gomez denied ever being asked to keep her romances quiet in order to appear single and available.
She attributed her recent openness when it comes to the relationship to wanting to live an honest life.
"For me it's not about being public with anything," she explained. "I don't want to live my life being afraid of what people are going to say about me."
The interview had plenty of light-hearted moments, too, including when Gomez was asked if anyone doesn't know who Bieber is.
"The other day someone got a Google Alert saying I was dating Justin Timberlake, which was interesting," she revealed. "That was cool. I love *NSYNC."
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