Selena Gomez: Justin Bieber Is a 'Hopeless Romantic'

Selena Gomez rocks a Dolce&Gabbana corset on the cover of Elle‘s July 2012 issue.

Here’s what the 19-year-old singer and actress had to share:

On beau Justin Bieber renting out L.A.’s Staples Center for a private Titanic screening: “If I’ll share anything with you, it’s that he really is a hopeless romantic. I had just mentioned it in the car – all I said is that I really want to see Titanic again, and then …”

On growing up poor: “I can remember about seven times when our car got stuck on the highway because we’d run out of gas money … [but my mom still] saved up to take me to concerts. She took me to museums, aquariums, to teach me about the world, about what’s real.”

On working with Disney: “[It] is a machine, so people automatically assume that you can’t work for the channel unless you act and sing and dance and sign up for all that. That’s absolutely not true. I always did everything the way I wanted to do it.”

On choosing roles: “I get offered the teenybopper movies, and I’ve done that. I haven’t done a mega-hundred-billion-dollar Transformers movie, but that’s not what I want to do either.”

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