Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift celebrates her 35th birthday today, December 13. The ‘Love Story’ singer has made a huge impact on the music industry and recently concluded ‘The Eras Tour’ which broke the record as the highest-grossing tour ever. Take a look at some fun facts about the famed singer
The ‘All Too Well’ singer was named Taylor because her parents thought giving her a gender-neutral name would eliminate gender bias when applying for jobs in the future. Luckily for them, she instead went on to be a global superstar
There’s a negative superstition attached to the number 13, but not for Swift. The singer proudly painted the number on her hand in her earlier shows. "I was born on the 13th, I turned 13 on Friday the 13th, my first album went gold in 13 weeks," Swift said during an interview with MTV
“Dogs or cats?” is a useless question for Ms Swift. The ‘Shake it Off’ singer is the mother of three cats, all named after fictitious characters – Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button
‘Oops!... I Did It Again’ singer Britney Spears and Taylor Swift had the same manager in the early 2000s, Daniel Dymtrow. Though he was only Swift’s manager from 2004-05, he sued the singer claiming that she owed him a commission for jump-starting her career
In 2013, the ‘no body, no crime’ singer revealed that if she wasn’t a singer, she would want to be a detective. She admitted that the obsession came from watching criminal shows like Law & Order and Criminal Minds
Taylor Swift grew up on Pine Ridge Farm, an 11-acre Christmas tree farm in Reading, Pennsylvania. She even wrote a song about it called ‘Christmas Tree Farm’
Back in 2003, Taylor Swift modelled for the clothing brand Abercrombie & Fitch, just like many other celebrities, namely, Channing Tatum, Jennifer Lawrence, and Lana Del Rey
A glitch accidentally released eight seconds "Track 3" on her new album, ‘1989’, back in 2014. The mistakenly released track topped the Canadian iTunes charts that week. What was in “Track 3”? Just a few seconds of static sounds