Selena Gomez all smiles while enjoying the snow with pals in rare appearance

After a rough year, Selena Gomez looks like she's on the road to recovery. (Photo: Robyn Beck, AFP/Getty Images)

After a rough year, Selena Gomez is looking happy and healthy.

A photo posted by her old “Wizards of Waverly Place” co-star Bailee Madison showed Gomez smiling with friends in the snow in one of her first public outings in a few months.

The singer, 26, has been focusing on improving her mental health recently, according to E! News and NBC.

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Pal Connar Franklin also shared several snaps of a big group of friends, including Gomez, enjoying outdoor activities in the snow. 

Gomez made goofy faces with her friends while wearing a black beanie and black “Reputation” sweatshirt from buddy Taylor Swift’s recent concert tour, topped with a coat. 

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Gomez has been rarely seen lately after previously revealing how complications from a kidney transplant in 2017 negatively affected her. “Grown-ish” actress Francia Raisa donated her kidney to Gomez last year and remembered post-op as a tough time for both of them.

“Selena and I both went through a depression,” she told Self. “She had some complications with hers, and she has bigger scars than I do that (weren’t) expected.” 

Raisa described a scary situation in which Gomez messaged her about how she was struggling:

“I remember getting a text message from Selena saying, ‘I’m so scared I might die,’ and I was like, ‘What?’… That’s when she got the complication where the kidney turned and broke an artery and she had to go back in and they actually had to take a vein out of her leg… and build a wall around her artery.”

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