A source claims Selena Gomez delayed announcing her engagement to Benny Blanco – and it’s a very sad theory but would make sense

A source claims Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco got engaged in August and the reason they held off publicly announcing the news is allegedly to do with Justin Bieber.

Selena Gomez announced her engagement to Benny Blanco in a post shared to Instagram yesterday (December 12).

However, a source has since come forward to claim the Only Murders in the Building star got engaged to the producer months prior but was worried it may clash with some other news.

Gomez took to her Instagram page yesterday to share the news, sharing four images.

The first shows her hand and ring; the second shows her sitting in a garden on a rug looking at her ring; the third a selfie with Gomez smiling down, showing her hand and ring to the camera; and the fourth and final picture of the singer in the arms of Blanco, him kissing her on the side of the head as she shows her hand to the camera beaming.

The caption reads: “Forever begins now..”

However, while the announcement was shared yesterday, that doesn’t mean Blanco popped the question recently, a source has since claimed.

Selena Gomez revealed she’s engaged in a post to Instagram (Instagram/ @selenagomez)

A source – allegedly an ‘insider’ on the matter – told the Mail Online that Gomez and Blanco actually became engaged in August.

So why wait until December to tell the world? Well, first off, just because someone is in the public eye doesn’t mean they’re required to tell the world information about their life as soon as it happens.

But the insider claims Gomez also allegedly held off as a result of ex-partner Justin Bieber and partner Hailey Bieber announcing the birth of their first child in August.

The source claims Gomez ‘didn’t want her engagement to be tied to Bieber in any way’ because she ‘knew that there would be stories accusing her of getting engaged to turn attention away from Justin’s baby or that people would claim that she did this to one up him’.

While it’s not been confirmed, the idea of withholding the announcement out of fear of backlash on social media would make sense, Gomez having previously spoken out about the extremely damaging effects of internet trolls on her mental wellbeing.

Both Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez have previously spoken out against nasty comments being shared online ( Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

Unable to let sleeping dogs lie and everyone get on with their lives, some social media users have long speculated about an alleged feud between Gomez and the Biebers as a result of the past relationship – it’s called moving on, everyone.

And so bad did some of the hateful comments become targeting the Biebers specifically, Gomez once took to TikTok to speak out.

The Only Murders in the Building actor wrote: “Please be kind and consider others’ mental health. My heart has been heavy, and I only want good for everyone. All my love.”

Hailey also spoke out in the days following Gomez becoming a target of severe trolling, writing: “If you’re leaving mean or rude comments on my behalf on anyone’s posts, just know that I don’t want that, nor do I ever or will I ever support or condone hateful, mean, or nasty comments. Doing that is not supporting me.

“If you are participating in that you are a part of a culture that I want no part of. Please be nice or don’t say anything.”