How tall is Selena Gomez?

How tall is Selena Gomez?

Selena Gomez is 5′5″, or 165.1 cm. That is the height stated on her Billboard artist profile, which gives her birthday, hometown and height in a single line of biographical summary, and it is the figure this site uses. Wikidata, the open database behind many reference sites, does not currently hold a height statement for her, so Billboard is the primary published listing.

Five foot five is not a figure that has drawn much dispute. Unlike some celebrities whose listed heights swing by several inches between sources, Gomez's has stayed steady, and it matches what photographs with her better-documented peers show: she is shorter than Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber, a little taller than Demi Lovato and Billie Eilish, and level with several actresses of the same listed height.

From Grand Prairie to the Disney Channel

Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, a suburb of Dallas, and named after the Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla. Her mother, Mandy Teefey, was 16 when she was born and had been a stage actress; her father, Ricardo Joel Gomez, is of Mexican descent. Her parents divorced when she was five, and she grew up with her mother, often under financial strain. She was mostly homeschooled and earned her high-school diploma that way in 2010.

She started on Barney & Friends in 2002, appearing in 13 episodes through 2004. The leap to fame came with the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place (2007–2012), in which she played Alex Russo. Billboard notes that she moved to California in 2006 when she landed that role. She signed with Hollywood Records in 2008, fronted the band Selena Gomez & the Scene for three albums, and then went solo.

A career measured in records, not inches

Gomez's chart record is long. Billboard's chart history shows "Lose You to Love Me" reaching No. 1 on the Hot 100 in November 2019, while "Calm Down" with Rema peaked at No. 3 and spent 57 weeks on the chart. Her debut solo album, Stars Dance (2013), opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Selena Gomez next to her co-stars

Because Gomez has worked in an unusual mix of television, film and music, her co-star comparisons cover a wide range. The site's data gives these heights:

Demi Lovato and the Disney years

Gomez and Demi Lovato met as children on Barney & Friends, then reunited as teenagers in the Disney Channel television film Princess Protection Program. The two also recorded the charity single "Send It On" in 2009 with Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers as part of Disney's Friends for Change campaign. Lovato is listed at 161 cm, so Gomez is about 4 cm taller, a modest difference that rarely shows once footwear is involved.

Spring Breakers

Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers (2012) was a deliberate break from Disney, and Gomez later called it a turning point in her acting career. Her co-stars included Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson. Benson, at 165 cm, is effectively the same height as Gomez. Hudgens, at 155 cm, is about 10 cm shorter. In group shots of the four leads, Gomez is in the taller half of the cast.

Only Murders in the Building

Since 2021 Gomez has starred and served as executive producer on the Hulu mystery-comedy Only Murders in the Building, playing Mabel Mora alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short. Critics have praised the trio's chemistry, and Steve Martin has said that she understood that "quiet acting is powerful acting." The site does not hold verified heights for Martin and Short, so this page does not estimate the gap. Meryl Streep, who joined the cast from the third season as the actress Loretta Durkin, is someone Gomez has named as an inspiration, crediting Streep's humility, professionalism and commitment to the craft.

The show has become the steadiest acting job of Gomez's adult career. Hulu renewed it for a second season in September 2021 and kept renewing it each year after, with a sixth season ordered in October 2025. Critics have also noticed a change in her style: reviewers describe her comic delivery as dry and deadpan, which suits a character who is often the calm center of a scene while her older co-stars do the flailing. Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times called her a true co-star who meshes with Martin and Short to form an unlikely friendship trio. On a show built around three people crowded into apartments, elevators and hallways, the visual contrast between the three leads is part of the comedy.

Emilia Pérez and Cannes

Gomez played Jessi, the wife of the title character, in Jacques Audiard's Spanish-language musical crime film Emilia Pérez (2024). At the 2024 Cannes Film Festival she and her co-stars Karla Sofía Gascón, Adriana Paz and Zoe Saldaña jointly won the Best Actress award, with the prize shared among the four performers rather than given to one. The site does not hold verified heights for her three co-winners, so they are left out of the table above.

Voice roles, where height disappears

One of her longest-running film jobs has no on-screen body at all. Gomez voices Mavis, Dracula's daughter, in the animated Hotel Transylvania franchise (2012–2022). Hotel Transylvania 2 alone grossed about $475 million worldwide. In animation, a character's size is set by the designers, not the actor, so Mavis's proportions say nothing about Gomez's own height. It is a useful reminder that a star's apparent size on screen is often a production choice.

Height in her music and personal life

Justin Bieber

Gomez and Justin Bieber had a widely reported on-again, off-again relationship between 2010 and 2018. Bieber is listed at 175.3 cm, about 10 cm (4 inches) taller than Gomez. That is close to the average height difference between men and women in the United States, a point covered further below.

Benny Blanco

Gomez and the producer Benny Blanco worked together long before their relationship became public. In 2019 they collaborated on "I Can't Get Enough" with Tainy and J Balvin. In February 2025, by then engaged, they announced a joint album, I Said I Love You First, released on March 21, 2025. Blanco's Wikipedia biography now refers to Gomez as his wife, and the pair received a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Pop Recording for "Bluest Flame" in November 2025. The site does not have a verified height for Blanco, so no comparison is given here.

Taylor Swift

Gomez has cited Taylor Swift as a musical influence, particularly for her songwriting and her ability to move between genres. At 180 cm, Swift is almost 15 cm taller. Side by side, Gomez's eye line would fall about at Swift's chin.

Health, advocacy and why weight is not listed

Off screen, Gomez has made youth mental health advocacy a central cause: she is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and in 2020 she launched the Rare Impact Fund alongside her cosmetics company, Rare Beauty, with a goal of raising $100 million over ten years for youth mental health services. Rare Beauty was valued at $2 billion as of May 2024.

No official source lists her weight, and this page does not estimate one. Her height is the only physical measurement Billboard publishes, and that is the measurement this page discusses.

How Selena Gomez compares with the average American woman

Gomez was born in 1992. The NCD-RisC estimates used on the site's United States average height page put the average American woman born in 1996, the closest cohort, at 163.5 cm. At 165.1 cm, Gomez is about 1.6 cm (well under an inch) taller than the average woman of her generation.

The CDC's measured survey gives a more detailed picture. In 2015–2018, American women aged 20 and over averaged 161.3 cm, with a median of 161.3 cm and a 75th percentile of 166.0 cm. Among women aged 20 to 29, the average was 162.6 cm. Gomez's 165.1 cm places her at roughly the 70th percentile of all adult women: taller than about seven in ten, but well short of the 95th percentile (172.5 cm).

The last row is a useful reference for her past relationship with Bieber: the 10.2 cm gap between Gomez and the average American man is almost exactly the gap between Gomez and Bieber.

To find your own percentile, use the height percentile calculator.

Comparing yourself with Selena Gomez

At 5′5″, Gomez is a height that many readers share or come close to, which makes her a common reference point in the height comparison tool. If you are 5′5″ yourself, you would look her in the eye in flat shoes. If you are 5′9″, like Bieber, you would have a 4-inch advantage, and if you are 5′11″, like Swift, you would be looking down at the top of her head.

Heels change the picture quickly. A 10 cm heel, common on red carpets, would put Gomez at roughly 175 cm, level with Bieber's barefoot height and still a few centimeters short of Swift in flats. When both women wear heels, the original 15 cm gap returns.

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