Selena Gomez reveals she had kidney transplant as part of lupus treatment

She has revealed to her followers, literally hundreds of millions of them, that she had to undergo a kidney transplant.

Ever since revealing her lupus diagnosis in 2015, Selena Gomez has been upfront about the impact the autoimmune disease has had on her health, career and quality of life.

But she took it one step further early Thursday morning when she revealed via Instagram she'd received a kidney transplant as part of her ongoing treatment  explaining, "it was what I needed to do for my overall health."

Her publicist confirmed the transplant to the Associated Press.