Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have been through a lot together, not least among them getting married last year, but this week they reached a… unique new relationship milestone, let’s say. On a recent episode of Blanco’s podcast Friends Keep Secrets, Gomez planted a kiss on her husband’s foot, which social media users had derided for being “dirty” after Blanco went barefoot on the show’s first episode last month.
“Oh, don’t make it a moment!” Gomez groaned to Blanco on the podcast after the foot kiss (sorry, Selena, but I’m officially taking on the responsibility of making it a moment), with Blanco responding: “No. I wasn’t. I liked it. It made me feel good. I love you so much.”
I mean… okay! Listen, I just want Gomez and Blanco to be happy, and if the devoted-bordering-on-quasi-religious act of Gomez kissing her husband’s feet accomplishes that for them, that’s great, right?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the ultimate expressions of romantic love lately—personally, I blame Emerald Fennell for this—and in a weird way, I’m kind of charmed by Gomez going out of her way to show love and appreciation for a part of her partner’s body that the internet has deemed gross. I’m the first to admit that my own feet aren’t always as clean as they should be (I wear my Rick Owens Birkenstocks pretty much every day, which has resulted in a confusing foot tan line and a near-constant need to soak my toes in the tub), but I still want to be worshipped!
Like, should men wash their feet before setting them on a clean couch? Probably! But is it charming to me that Gomez doesn’t seem to have the kind of conniption fit that I certainly would when Blanco fails to do so? Absolutely! As 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon once said in a speech at her ex-boyfriend’s wedding: “Love is weird, and sometimes gross.”
