Help with selection tool (trying to add white background)

Hello everyone,
Please help me with adding a white background with my pic, am not even sure if i should searching how to perfectly use the selection tool or how to add white background, I need to add a solid white background to my pics but when i try they dont turn out so well, here is a pic, thats the best i have gotten, what am i doing wrong? I know to to fill in the white but the pic looks terrible. thanks

Hello Silkrooster, I appreciate your reply so much and thank you for trying to explain though I even got more confused, I am attaching 4 pics, the before and after of what I have worked on so far (I changed backgrounds when taking the pics) and what am working on now with the new background but still the result is not perfect, thank u so much

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