Selena Gomez flaunts tiny waist on red carpet in jeweled gown at her annual Rare Impact Fund Benefit in LA… after Benny Blanco wedding anniversary

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By CARLY JOHNSON, US ASSISTANT SHOWBIZ EDITOR 02:05 15 Oct 2026, updated 02:21 15 Oct 2026

Selena Gomez was a sight to behold as she arrived at her annual Rare Impact Fund Benefit held in Los Angeles on Wednesday night.

The makeup mogul, 34, who is the brains behind the successful makeup line Rare Beauty, hit the red carpet outside the iconic Hollywood Palladium in a red jeweled gown.

The strapless frock had a corset-style bodice that showed off Gomez’s tiny waist and a curve-clinging skirt that stopped just above her ankles.

She stood on tall red heels while accessorizing with diamond earrings and the $225,000 engagement ring her now-husband Benny Blanco, 38, gave her in 2024.

Gomez, who married Blanco in a star-studded Santa Barbara ceremony last year, wore her raven tresses in sleek curls that tumbled down her back.

As for makeup, she rocked smokey brown eyeshadow and a glossy nude lip.

After getting in her solo shots on the Rare Impact Fund Benefit photo op, which was fitted with a bright pink backdrop and fuchsia carpet, Gomez reunited with Elyse Cohen, who serves as Rare Beauty’s Chief Impact Officer.

Gomez launched Rare Beauty, her first-ever makeup and beauty line, back in 2020 just months after introducing the Rare Impact Fund, which is aiming to raise $100 million over a decade in support of mental health advocacy and services.

Over the last seven years, the Rare Impact Fund has raised a reported total of $30 million.

Gomez has publicly battled her own mental health issues, having been diagnosed with bipolar disorder – a condition that causes extreme mood shifts – in 2018.

She did not go public with her diagnosis until 2020 and has since used her platform to combat the shame that’s often experienced by those struggling with mental illness.

While appearing on her husband Benny’s podcast Friends Keep Secrets earlier this year, Gomez shared that she is ‘not ashamed’ of being labeled bipolar and that she now has a grasp on the ‘mania’ she experiences.

‘I’m equally proud to say that I do have moments of mania. I’m not ashamed at all, because I can catch them a bit quicker.’

Gomez also addressed how ‘complicated’ it can be to get diagnosed and revealed that she herself went through ‘multiple therapists’ before learning she was bipolar.

‘I’m so grateful I went to four different rehabs because it all helped me understand it,’ she told Blanco.

Gomez’s appearance at Wednesday’s Rare Impact Fund Benefit comes just weeks after she and Blanco celebrated their first wedding anniversary.

To honor the milestone on Sunday, September 27, Gomez took to her Instagram Story and shared a black-and-white photo of her and Blanco on their wedding day in 2025.

In the snapshot, the pair were dressed in their reception looks and walking down a ornate corridor with interlocked arms and matching smiles.

‘Happy anniversary my love,’ she wrote alongside a gray heart emoji. ‘I love you to the moon and back.’

Gomez and Blanco have been together for over three years.

The pair started dating in the summer of 2023, announced their engagement in December 2024 and tied the knot the following year.

Gomez and Blanco tied the knot last fall in a star-studded, intimate wedding ceremony held at a converted palm tree farm in Santa Barbara, California.

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The couple exchanged vows with Lil Dicky as their officiant and the bride being supported by her recently married, longtime best friend Taylor Swift.

Last month, Gomez opened up about her and Blanco’s future plans to have children.

While taking the stage at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York City, she said she plans to ‘eventually’ have kids and start a family.

Gomez’s remark came just two years after she told Vanity Fair that she ‘can’t carry’ children due to medical reasons.

‘I haven’t ever said this,’ she told the publication at the time, ‘but I unfortunately can’t carry my own children.’

Gomez elaborated, ‘I have a lot of medical issues that would put my life and the baby’s in jeopardy. That was something I had to grieve for a while.

Although her path to motherhood will ‘look different,’ the star insisted she wants to be a mom someday.

She told the outlet: ‘It’s not necessarily the way I envisioned it. I thought it would happen the way it happens for everyone.

‘I’m in a much better place with that. I find it a blessing that there are wonderful people willing to do surrogacy or adoption, which are both huge possibilities for me,’ Gomez added.

‘It made me really thankful for the other outlets for people who are dying to be moms,’ she continued.

‘I’m one of those people. I’m excited for what that journey will look like, but it’ll look a little different,’ she shared.

Gomez said that through surrogacy or adoption, the child will be ‘mine.’

‘At the end of the day, I don’t care. It’ll be mine. It’ll be my baby.’

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