Which Must Be My Cue To Interject.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13875309/Selena-Gomez-haters-responds-carry-children-not-shameful.html

She might want to consider a second opinion.

Based on my, admittedly incomplete, knowledge of her medical conditions. There's absolutely nothing which would prevent a safe pregnancy. Only increased risk factors but risks that are commonly managed, as a matter of routine.

Something which allows me to segue into something that's been bugging me for a while.

Obviously I don't want to see Selena Gomez reduced to her medical conditions. However I do feel that medical conditions are, really, the only thing we have in common.

A big part of the reason I don't want her to be known only for her medical conditions is that I know the stigma that comes with them. I do wonder whether it was part of the reason why she was single so long. The way medical conditions make awkward, embarrassing conversations, such as this one, inevitable. Often stopping relationships in their tracks.

The thing is that I don't just have a theoretical understanding of her well publicised conditions. I already know someone with the same condition. I seem to remember only getting involved because of the argument over whether she should drink alcohol after a kidney transplant.

So I wouldn't find any of those conversations in any way awkward.

However a relationship based on only the things you've got wrong with you really doesn't seem like the basis for a healthy relationship.

So I've long thought we'd make a terrible couple.

Yet a fantastic support group.