Selena Gomez’s Mommy Issues
So Your Parents Are Old
Vanessa Grigoriadis
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Infamous, Vanessa and her co-host Natalie Robehmed learn about a wild family drama from The Cut writer Angelina Chapin. It’s about Selena Gomez and her mother Mandy Teefey’s mental-health startup, Wondermind. They discuss the pressures created when celebrity and mental health advocacy become a business. Read Angelina’s story, “What Happened at Wondermind?”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Thank you so much for listening to this show. I hope you're getting something out of it because I definitely am getting something out of making it. So if you'd like to join our community, the so your parents are old community, please head over to join campside.com. That's C-A-M-P-S-I-D-E. You'll find behind-the-scenes content there, bonus content for all of our hit shows. |
| 0:26.8 | So join campside.com. Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus. |
| 0:33.3 | We're having a baby. We're having a baby. I've always wanted to be mom. |
| 0:55.6 | And we're bringing you on our journey through everything. I have no idea what we're doing. Thank you. I have more of an idea. I think of it like a Tamagocchi. At the end of all of this... We're going to have a little baby? Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus. |
| 0:58.3 | 18 plus subscription required T's T supply. |
| 1:01.9 | Hi, Lily Houston Smith here, the producer of this show. |
| 1:06.2 | We have something we want to share with you this week, and it's a family story, though it's not explicitly about old parents. |
| 1:08.8 | It's from Vanessa's other show, which is called infamous. |
| 1:12.0 | That's about scandals in culture. And the episode is about Selena Gomez and her mom. |
| 1:17.4 | The story has a lot of ins and outs, and we think people who are thinking deeply about how |
| 1:21.7 | they relate to their parents will enjoy it. So here's that episode now. |
| 1:29.1 | Camp site media. |
| 1:38.5 | Anyone who has a mother probably knows that that relationship with your mother can be complicated. |
| 1:43.4 | But what happens when both mother and daughter struggle with mental health? |
| 1:45.3 | And one of them is one of the most famous people in the world, and the other isn't. Add in trying to make a business out of |
| 1:51.3 | mental health, and you've got the story of Wondermind. Selina Gomez's ill-fated and little-known |
| 1:57.7 | mental health startup. Today, we're talking about Disney Star-turned beauty mogul, Selena Gomez, and her known, mental health startup. Today, we're talking about Disney star-turned-beauty |
| 2:02.6 | Selena Gomez and her mom, Mandy Teefe. |
| 2:07.0 | In 2021, Selena and Mandy co-founded Wondermind, |
| 2:11.0 | a startup that aimed to destigmatize mental health |
| 2:14.0 | and democratize its care. |
| 2:16.7 | But what actually happened at Wondermind was very different. |
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