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Selena Gomez’s mom weighs in on daughter’s kidney transplant: “This picture…will live with me forever”

David Livingston/Getty ImagesSelena Gomez surprised fans last week with the announcement that she’d undergone a kidney transplant earlier this summer as a result of her lupus.  She also posted an image of herself in the hospital, along with her donor: actress and friend Francia Rasia.  Now Selena’s mom has re-posted that photo and added her own thoughts about the revelation.

“This picture is one of the most breathtaking images that will live with me forever. For all those moments of not knowing if we were going up or going down, I can always come back to this picture and know we can always make it back up,” writes Selena’s mom, Mandy Teefey.

She adds, “As a mother I was helpless, scared and all I could do was pray for both of them, Francia’s beautiful family. I am pretty sure I am banned from that hospital. Mama Bear was in high gear.”

Teefy concludes, “Selena gained a kidney, I was able to keep my little girl, but I also gained another daughter….thank you to everyone who was there for Sel, Francia and our families. We survived from all the love, prayers and God.”

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