Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco may have just welcomed a musical baby—their joint album, I Said I Love You First, dropped last week—but the actress can’t wait to start a family of her own with her fiancé.

During an episode of the “Jay Shetty Podcast,” Gomez said she was looking forward to sharing their collaboration with their future kids one day. “I don’t know what will happen, obviously, but I love children. I have an 11-year-old sister that I absolutely adore,” Gomez said, referring to her half-sister, Gracie Elliott Teefey. “I love making [children] laugh; they’re just so sweet. So absolutely, when that day comes, I’m so excited for it.”

Blanco chimed in that his fiancée, who is typically “the ultimate level of shy,” thrives around children. “When she walks into a room, her main goal is to disappear into the crowd. My mom is very similar, her and my mom are very similar,” Blanco explained. “They’ll wait and say like one thing throughout the night that winds up being the most poignant or funny thing of the night. But I’m gonna have diarrhea of the mouth talking to everyone.”

Which, is exactly what happens to Gomez when she’s around kids, says Blanco. “Whenever there’s kids at a place it’s the only time I see her do that. She immediately goes to the kids and has these conversations for like hours with the kids.”

Blanco attributed her kinship to kiddos to the fact that she grew up in the limelight. “When you started doing this you were a kid and that was your way to connect to people and I feel like you still feel like you have that obligation to connect with young kids,” he said. “You shaped so many young people’s lives, whether it was Barney, Wizards [of Waverly Place]…you’re still finding your way to do that.”

This isn’t the first time that Gomez has opened up about her future family plans. During a previous Time interview, Gomez had shared that she was planning to adopt if she was still by age 35. When podcast host Shetty asked her about the aforementioned interview, Gomez responded that “making plans and trying to stick to them is silly because you don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Last year, Gomez opened about the difficulties she will face when it comes time to start a family. The actress and singer revealed to Vanity Fair that she won’t be able to carry her own children. “I haven’t ever said this, but I unfortunately can’t carry my own children. I have a lot of medical issues that would put my life and the baby’s in jeopardy,” she explained, referring to her battle with the autoimmune disease, lupus. “That was something I had to grieve for a while.”

“It’s not necessarily the way I envisioned it,” she added. “I thought it would happen the way it happens for everyone. [But] I’m in a much better place with that. I find it a blessing that there are wonderful people willing to do surrogacy or adoption, which are both huge possibilities for me. It made me really thankful for the other outlets for people who are dying to be moms. I’m one of those people. I’m excited for what that journey will look like, but it’ll look a little different. At the end of the day, I don’t care. It’ll be mine. It’ll be my baby.”