turned heads as she posed for cameras at the Jean Paul Gaultier Paris Fashion Week show on Wednesday. put on a n a stunning black backless dress. Showing off her legs with a thigh-high slit, Selma looked formidable as she posed with her cane amidst her ongoing health battles.
finished off her striking look with arm-length red leather gloves and black slingback heels. The star wore her short bright blonde locks in a fierce side parted bun and highlighted her stunning features with a smoky eye and dark lip. Joining the likes of Emma Chamberlain and Lena Mahfouf at the iconic event, Selma leaned purposefully on her cane in several of the empowering photos.
The actress relies on the walking aid to get around, after she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2018. The lifelong condition affects patients’ brains and nervous systems, and Selma has previously opened up about the "unbearable pain" the degenerative disease causes her. The Cruel Intentions actress has also spoken up about the "gender bias" in medicine and the years of "medical trauma" she suffered because doctors would not listen to her and continued to dismiss her symptoms, with one even shockingly suggesting her problems would be fixed if she had a boyfriend.
Selma described how her symptoms had begun during her childhood, but nobody took her seriously. Speaking about her MS journey on Meet The Press last year, she said: "It was a gender bias, a lot of it, because there would be a boy in my grade that would go in .