"I feel that I am missing it" - When Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla expressed her desire of having children

Selena Quintanilla's old interview from Selena y Los Dinos in 1995, recently premiered Wednesday at SXSW. In the interview, the late Mexican-American icon expressed wanting to have children and a family of her own.

"I would love to have children in the future. I think it is a part of my womanhood that, as a woman, I feel that I am missing it."

However, the singer saw it as a future plan and noted that she has to "extract all of my goals that I have in my mind and achieve them" before having kids.

"And in the future, when I have time to take care of my children, well ofcourse I'm going to have kids. Like six. Another group."

Selena was murdered by her former business associate, Yolanda Saldivar, on March 31, 1995, in Corpus Christi, Texas, at a young age of 23. She was pronounced dead on the same day from blood loss and cardiac arrest. Yolanda went to prison for the crime.

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Rumors of Selena being pregnant before her death

Yolanda Saldivar, Selena Quintanilla's former business associate who was found guilty of Selena's murder, allegedly claimed that the singer was pregnant at the time of her death. However, these rumors were disputed by Selena's widow, Chris Perez, at the time, who spoke to Chron.com and responded to the rumors saying,

"I could fill a whole book just about that (the rumors). There were some things that were just ridiculous."

Selena Quintanilla and Prez eloped in April, 1992, after her father kicked the latter from the band after finding out about the two's relationship. The two got married the same year, and were married for almost three years before her tragic death in May, 1995.

In another documentary, her sister, Suzette, recalled that the two would often talk about getting married one day and having children,

"After she was married with Chris she would just always tell me about her dreams. She would take off her makeup and always put her hair in a bun. We would talk about getting married one day, about her having children, her kids and my kids were gonna play together and we were going to make sure that we were going to raise them together. Normal stuff."

Season 1 was released in December, 2020 and followed the legendary singer, Selena Quintanilla's early years.