Karlie Kloss Wished Taylor Swift a Happy Birthday on Instagram
Looks like Karlie Kloss is still a bona fide Taylor Swift squad member after all.
The supermodel took to Instagram on Wednesday to post a selfie of herself and Taylor in honor of the singer’s 28th birthday. “Happy happy birthday @taylorswift!” she captioned the selfie shot, which appears to have been taken behind the scenes of a Vogue shoot in 2015.
Rumors started flying that the two of them were no longer close after Taylor released the music video for “Look What You Made Me Do,” in which one of her characters wore a shirt presumably decorated with the names of her remaining squad members. Gigi Hadid, Selena Gomez, Lena Dunham, Blake Lively, and Lily Aldridge were all included (among others), but Karlie, Lorde, and Cara Delevingne were notably absent, which had fans speculating that they’d been excommunicated from all future concert appearances and music video roles. But based on Karlie’s Instagram post, it seems the drama (if it ever even really existed) has been put to rest.
Karlie and Taylor’s friendship was first documented in 2012 when Taylor told Vogue, “I love Karlie Kloss…I want to bake cookies with her!” Karlie apparently read the interview and tweeted at Taylor, “Your kitchen or mine?” and the two met for the first time when Taylor performed at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. They spent the next few years as the embodiment of friendship goals, doing things like twinning for the Met Gala, hanging out at the VSFS for a second time, and going on a road trip that appeared on the cover of Vogue. Karlie also appeared in the “Bad Blood” music video along with the rest of the Swift squad and took to the stage during Tay’s 1989 tour. You know, all the normal stuff that forever friends do together.
So far, Karlie and fellow VS angel Lily Aldridge have been the only two A-Listers to show any kind of public display of friend-fection in honor of Tay-day. As for the rest of us, we’ll celebrate by staying home and blasting “Gorgeous” on repeat.
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