Benny Blanco Celebrates Selena Gomez’s Birthday With Adorable Relationship Throwback: ‘I Love U’
It’s Selena Gomez‘s birthday, but Benny Blanco would probably argue that he’s the one getting a gift.
On Instagram Monday (July 22), the producer celebrated his superstar girlfriend’s 32nd trip around the sun with an adorable post recalling one of the first times they worked together. In 2019, he dressed up as a life-size white teddy bear in their “I Can’t Get Enough” music video with Tainy and J Balvin. Five years later, he’s dating the Only Murders in the Building star, and Blanco appears to have given Gomez an actual white teddy bear as a birthday present that doubles as a callback to the origins of their relationship.
“i used to play a teddy bear in ur music video and now i get to b urs in real life…,” he wrote, sharing a behind-the-scenes photo of Gomez hugging him in his bear costume, as well as a current snap of her happily snuggling with her plushie.
Blanco added, “happy bday bb ! i love u !”
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The Rare Beauty founder’s big day comes about a year into her relationship with Blanco, whom she started dating last summer. In recent weeks, the couple has been active together on TikTok, with Gomez enlisting the hitmaker earlier this month in filming an adorable put-a-finger-down challenge that revealed which of them said “I love you” first. (Spoiler: It was her.)
A few days later, Blanco convinced the “Single Soon” artist to try a wacky sandwich combination — pickles and cheese in between two slices of watermelon — that she definitely wasn’t a fan of.
In addition to finding love, Gomez has also had quite the triumphant year. Days before turning 32, for instance, she earned her first-ever Emmy nod in an acting category for her role as Mabel on Only Murders in the Building. Shortly before that, she and her Emilia Pérez costars — Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz — collectively won best actress at the Cannes Film Festival.
“I’m honored and and insanely grateful for this,” she wrote on Instagram Stories earlier this week of the Emmy recognition.
