With regards to telling her life story, Marie Osmond is all about authenticity.

That is why the star has the proper actress—who was additionally a former youngster star—in thoughts to play her in a future biopic or miniseries.

“I feel Selena Gomez can be wonderful,” Marie informed co-host Adrienne Bailon-Houghton and Justin Sylvester on the Nov. 21 episode of E! Information, “solely as a result of she has been by means of lots of the issues that I have been by means of.”

Simply as Marie grew up performing together with her brother Donny Osmond on their Donny & Marie selection present, Selena grew up within the highlight on the hit Disney Channel sequence Wizards of Waverly Place.

“I feel it is good to have a baby’s perspective as being an entertainer,” Marie added, “as a result of it’s totally totally different.”

Not like some youngster stars, the considered lacking out on a standard childhood is not one thing the 63-year-old ever frightened about, as she informed E! Information, “I do not take a look at life that approach. I take a look at what’s a constructive. I wish to dwell on that greater than what I missed.”