Taylor Swift’s years-long friendship with Gigi Hadid is one for the ages.
The duo were first photographed together alongside Jaime King and Ireland Baldwin at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars Party. One year later, Hadid appeared in Swift’s star-studded “Bad Blood” music video alongside Zendaya, Selena Gomez, Karlie Kloss, Hailee Steinfeld and more.“[It was] just like the craziest thing you’ve ever seen,” the supermodel exclusively told Us Weekly in May 2015 ahead of the video’s release. “It’s just amazing how Taylor has the self-confidence and the confidence in her friends, her generation and this generation of women that she loves to empower other people and I feel like that’s really what this is about.”
The former Victoria’s Secret model moved on with former One Direction member Zayn Malik, and the two announced they were expecting their first child together in April 2020. At the time, a source exclusively told Us that Swift “approve[d]” of Malik’s relationship with her BFF, and later gifted their daughter, Khai, a homemade pink blanket following her birth in September 2020. The on-and-off couple split for good in October 2021.
Swift shared a rare comment about her and the California native’s bond in Hadid’s May 2017 cover story interview for Harper’s Bazaar. “As a friend, Gigi is one of the first people I go to for advice,” told the outlet. “She has this incredible ability to see all sides of a situation and simplify it for you, to see the complexity of people.”