Selena Gomez’s Transformation
From a child actress on Barney and Friends, to a full-fledged sex symbol stripping down for a raunchy role in Spring Breakers, Selena Gomez has had quite the transformation—see photos of her evolution!
Selena Gomez’s Transformation: How the Disney Star Has Grown
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2004
Barney got some soon-to-be-famous friends in 2004 when Selena Gomez appeared in episodes with her future friend, Demi Lovato. Gomez (in the pink striped top on the ball) starred on Barney in 2002 at age 10, and acted alongside Lovato (in front of Barney in the glasses).
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2005
Selena continued her acting career at the age of 13, holding a small role in the TV movie Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire with Chuck Norris.
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2006
Back to school! Gomez hit the books at Danny Jones Middle School in Mansfield, Texas and smiled for a yearbook photo in eighth grade at the age of 14.
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2007
The budding actress hit the red carpet in May 2007 for the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End movie premiere, going casual in Converse sneakers, skinny jeans, a long tank top, and a vest.
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2008
Big time! Gomez booked her breakout role on Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place, which premiered in October 2007. The show became a hit with Selena starring as the magical Alex Russo.
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2009
After appearing in the TV movie Another Cinderella Story and recording a song for its soundtrack, Gomez hit the red carpet at the Teen Choice Awards in Universal City, Calif. in August 2009, coming into her own in a cute one-shouldered light purple dress.
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2010
Just the beginning! Selena and her on-again off-again boyfriend Justin Bieber took the stage together on Dec. 31, 2009 for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve before they started dating.
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2011
Movie star! The former child star found herself on the big screen with the July 2011 debut of Monte Carlo, in which she starred as a high school student who gets mistaken for a celebrity.
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2012
Gomez was all grown-up at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in February 2012 in West Hollywood, Calif., stunning in a floor-length silver gown after the January wrap of Wizards of Waverly Place.
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2013
Going wild! Selena shed any last traces of her squeaky-clean Disney image with her raunchy role in the indie Spring Breakers, alongside Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, and James Franco. The role in the R-rated flick had the actresses living a life of crime in bikinis, complete with drugs, sex, and violence.
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2014
The multihyphenate traveled to Park City, Utah in January 2014 for the Sundance Film Festival. After her part in Spring Breakers, Gomez worked to further her acting career, nabbing roles in William H. Macy's Rudderless and Behaving Badly alongside Nat Wolff and Mary Louise-Parker.
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