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"Selena Gomez has confessed that she prefers to keep a &amp;quot;balance&amp;quot; of showbiz and regular friends.  The Monte Carlo star told The AP that she finds it important to have friends outside of Hollywood as they allow her to escape the pressures of fame, while those in the industry are able to relate to her career struggles. &amp;quot;Personally for me, I feel like it&amp;#039;s good to have a balance of both. I have people in my life that are in the business and then I have friends who aren&amp;#039;t in the business and family, so it&amp;#039;s nice to kind of keep that,&amp;quot; Gomez explained. &amp;quot;You want people that obviously understand what you&amp;#039;re going through and then you also want people that&amp;#039;s like, `Let&amp;#039;s not talk about sets or press or any of that, let&amp;#039;s just talk about normal things&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Gomez added that she keeps her guard up when meeting new people as she can&amp;#039;t be sure of their motives, saying: &amp;quot;Your life definitely changes a little bit and you kind of think people&amp;#039;s motives change towards you. Just got to be careful - that&amp;#039;s all.&amp;quot; The 18-year-old recently insisted that while she makes mistakes &amp;quot;all the time&amp;quot;, she tries to be a good role model to her young fans. Watch the trailer for Selena Gomez&amp;#039;s Monte Carlo below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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