Selena Gomez's fiancé Benny Blanco sparks outrage over $200 blueberries

Selena Gomez's fiancé caused a stir online after indulging in fresh produce to the tune of $200 per box.

Benny Blanco, 37, boasted about the biggest blueberries he had ever seen in a TikTok clip recently uploaded.

The music producer unveiled a black container with individually packed blueberries to his followers, only to receive criticism for the opulent fruit. 

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"This is insane. Look at this blueberry," Blanco said in the short video before taking a bite. "Oh my God … it's like a f---ing meal. Can you guys even see the scale of this?"

He added, "They're f---ing huge. They're delicious. I think the box is like, $200. That's crazy."

Fans and followers were quick to comment on the outrageous gift, and criticized Blanco for freely indulging.

"Sir we're not rich enough to relate to this," one fan wrote, while another added, "Meantime I can't afford regular fruit."

"This is rich rich and we're all poor poor," one user commented. 

"$200 is 2 weeks worth of groceries for me and my family… this is nuts," a TikTok user responded before one woman wrote, "I'm sorry.. you said $200??!!! Mr. Blanco.. I don't have that money right now as I am still waiting for my maternity leave check to come in and i've been waiting for a month!!! The struggle is real out here!"

"Benny. There are literally people dying," another fan wrote.

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The musician, whose full name is Benjamin Joseph Levin, proposed to Gomez in December after dating for nearly one year.

While Selena's coined Benny her "hubby" online, the couple hasn't planned their wedding yet due to demanding schedules.

"That’s why we both need to chill. We’ve both been working so much," Blanco told Jake Shane on the Therapuss podcast. "We got engaged, and then we were filming music videos for our album. Then it’s holidays. Then right after the holidays, we had to start all the promo for our stuff, do that. Then she left to film her show ‘Only Murders’ and then I met her, then we hung out for a week, and then right after that, it’s promo." 

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He added, "And then I’m writing another book, so then I had to write a book, and then she came back for one day here. And then it was my birthday, and you know ... We’re both working on so many things that we hadn’t even had time to get into it, but we’re so excited. I think this summer we’re going to sit down and be like, ‘Okay, what are we doing, hun?’"

The two have been romantically paired since December 2023 but were first linked when they worked together in 2019 on the song "I Can't Get Enough."

Gomez also said on the podcast that she "couldn't be more excited" about planning their wedding.

"It’s just there’s so much kind of happening in the moment with [him] working on some projects that he has to wrap up. And we just have things we want to finish in our own personal endeavors before we get into all the nitty-gritty."

She added, "You know, I just have never really felt so sure about something. And I also don’t want to jinx it by saying that."

Not drinking enough water floods your body with harmful stress hormones

A new study found that hydration is key when it comes to managing stress. 

People who drink less than seven cups, or 1.5 liters, of water per day have a cortisol response to stress that is 50% higher than those who meet water intake recommendations. 

Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) published the study in the Journal of Applied Physiology.

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Out of 62 healthy males and females, 32 participants were selected with both habitual low fluid intake and habitual high fluid intake.

Subjects who typically drank less than 1.5 liters of fluid per day were considered the "low-fluid" group, while the "high-fluid" group comprised people who drank the recommended amount of two liters for women and 2.5 for men. 

The participants’ fluid intake was monitored over seven days by testing the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) and hydration markers with blood and urine.  

The study found that drinking too little water increased stress-related health issues for both men and women. 

Professor Neil Walsh, study lead at LJMU's School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, said in a press release that keeping a water bottle nearby during stress-related times can have potential benefits for your long-term health.

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"Cortisol is the body’s primary stress hormone and exaggerated cortisol reactivity to stress is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and depression," said Walsh.

A study team member, Dr. Daniel Kashi, said in a release that "both groups felt equally anxious and experienced similar increases in heart rate during the stress test."

He added that "only the ‘low-fluid’ group showed a significant increase in saliva cortisol in response to the stress test." 

 "Although the low-fluid group did not report being thirstier than the high fluid group, they had darker and more concentrated urine, clear signs of poor hydration," said Kashi.

"An important observation was that poor hydration was associated with greater cortisol reactivity to the stress test. Exaggerated cortisol reactivity to stress has been associated with poor long-term health," Kashi added. 

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Long-term dehydration can lead to more serious health issues such as kidney damage and failure, anxiety and depression, heart problems, and diabetes, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Dehydration triggers the release of the vasopressin hormone, which puts pressure on the kidneys, making it harder to concentrate urine and manage electrolyte balance.  

"Vasopressin also acts on the brain’s stress-response cent[er]" influencing where it can release of cortisol," according to the LJMU release. 

The release added, "This dual role [of] vasopressin helps maintain blood volume and electrolyte balance but also increases cortisol."

While researchers found that water intake recommendations should be followed, additional research and further long-term studies are needed.

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Researchers suggest that monitoring urine color is a good way for people to check their hydration status.

Light yellow urine color typically indicates good hydration. 

"Being hydrated may help your body manage stress more effectively," he said.

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