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YOU MAY NOT know this unless you are a hardcore Taylor Swift fan (or Swiftie) but for years, the singer has been plagued by a rumour that she doesn’t have a belly button.
The wacky story was started thanks to the singer’s love of high-waisted, two-piece ensembles that do not reveal her lower abdomen.
In December, the 25-year-old singer gave an odd interview to Lucky magazine in which she only perpetuated the idea that something may be wrong with her navel:
I don’t like showing my belly button. When you start showing your belly button then you’re really committing to the midriff thing. I only partially commit to the midriff thing — you’re only seeing lower rib cage.
I don’t want people to know if I have one or not. I want that to be a mystery. As far as anyone knows based on my public appearances, they haven’t seen evidence of a belly button. It could be pierced. They have no idea. If I’m going to get some sort of massive tattoo, it’s going to be right next to my belly button because no one’s ever going to see that.
But it turns out Swift was just messing with us.
Last month the singer finally posted a bikini photo showing off her much-discussed belly button while on vacation in Hawaii with the sisters of the band Haim.
In an interview with BBC 1 Radio’s Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw on Tuesday, Swift revealed that posting the photo was a calculated move.
Because Swift had kept her navel under wraps for so long, she knew there would be a high price for whichever photographer could first prove its existence.
Not wanting the paparazzi to benefit from her belly button and from invading her private vacation, Swift decided to take matters into her own hands. She explained to Grimshaw:
“Basically, on the last day [of vacation] we see a fishing boat a half a mile away. We were like, ‘That’s a little weird. We’re in the middle of the ocean scuba diving.’ My security gets out binoculars and sees that they have a huge long-lens camera.
At which point, we go back to the beach and we realise, ‘Okay, so they got pictures of us in our bikinis, like, I don’t want them to make like $100,000 for stalking us.’ So we’re like, ‘Get up on the bow of the boat. We’re taking better bikini shots, so they don’t make as much money on theirs’.”
The moral of the story is that no one is going to benefit off Taylor Swift unless she herself says so. Just ask Spotify.
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Wtf did I just read
100 greens and 0 reds.
I would like to invite any potential red thumbs to this reply in a possibly vain attempt to have a red thumb free comment. Wpuldnt that be nice?
Jinxed it Dude
Hi Journal, how’s it going? From the title I was expecting an excellent story. Is there some parts missing?
Hot girls in bikini that’s all I need.
Terrible story with a nice picture
I know she is meant to be total and utter so and so. But she is just drop dead gorgeous.
Still think hottest woman alive us Sofia vergara.
So……what’s the one on the left hiding eh? The plot thickens.
Oh journal you are amazing. Totes amazing. Between you and the S*n I’m informed x
“Excellent story”…new low journal, new low…sigh
She is gorgeous
Now i know why i don’t read Business Insider. Excellent stories like this would blow my mind.
Doesn’t one need some form of bellybutton, otherwise foetal development would prove impossible?
Note: I’m no doctor.
Zzzzzzzzzzz…zzzzzzzz….zzzzzzzz..
Any chance we could get a shot of her brain?
Impossible
That gave me a good giggle.
I like the idea that Taylor would find the idea of seeing a fishing boat in the middle of the ocean ‘weird’. Fair play to her and her no-longer mysterious belly button.
Read this elsewhere a month ago
Why didn’t she get 1 of the worlds biggest selling magazines, get them to photograph her belly button, for a vast amount of money, and give this money to a well deserved ”CHARITY”..
Should this not be in The a Daily Edge section….
Don’t mind them Taylor, just shake it off,I’ll get my coat and long range camera lens
One word for you “photoshop”
eat yer dinner will ye
Kayne would say Beyonces is better
Wasn’t she in the celeb picture hack thing?surely her belly button was on show..haim are great too
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