Taylor Swift: 'Just because someone is cute and wants to date you, that’s not a reason to sacrifice your independence'
Taylor Swift has launched two Elizabeth Arden fragrances, has five albums under her belt, seven Grammy awards sitting at home, and has the most enviable pair of legs, so it is hard to believe that the 24-year-old was bullied at school for not being “cool or pretty enough”.
Speaking to Cosmopolitan ahead of the release of her new album 1989, the Shake it off singer said that overcoming the bullies was partly due to “that mental adjustment that happens when you grow up and figure out who you are”, but also Girls creator Lena Dunham.
On feminism, the American born singer said: “My girlfriends and I talk a lot about feminism and the inequality between the way men and women are talked about. The kind of things we say are, ‘Why is it mischievous, fun and sexy if a guy has a string of lovers that he’s cast aside; loved and left? Yet if a woman dates three or four people in an eight-year period she is a serial dater and it gives some 12-year-old the idea to call her a ‘slut’ on the internet?’ It’s not the same for boys, it just isn’t and that’s a fact.”
One thing Taylor isn't so enthusiastic about is dating. The Grammy Award winning singer has been linked to a string of Hollywood A-listers including Nick Jonas, Taylor Lautner, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal and One Direction’s Harry Styles, but she’s not looking to expand on the list just yet.
“People will say, let me set you up with someone, and I’m just sitting there saying, ‘That’s not what I’m doing. I’m not lonely; I’m not looking.’… They just don’t get it.”
She confessed that if she were to open her heart to the idea of a relationship, the guy would have to be something "special".
She said: “It’d take someone really special for me to undergo the circumstances I have to go through to experience a date. I don’t know how I would ever have another person in my world trying to have a relationship with me, or a family. The best answer I can come up with now is ‘go at it alone. Life can be romantic without having a romance. I’m very attracted to how happy I am now.”
The full interview appears in the December issue of Cosmopolitan, on sale 4 November. Also available in digital edition on Apple Newsstand
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