On Sunday, British Vogue revealed Taylor Swift as the star of its January 2020 cover. The photos are stunning, and the magazine will see Taylor in conversation with Andrew Lloyd Webber to celebrate the release of Cats.
And today, Vogue dropped a video of Taylor being interviewed by editor-in-chief Edward Enninful about her new album Lover and her favourite British slang.
They also spoke about Taylor's upcoming birthday — she's turning 30 on Dec. 13 — and what she's learned about herself and her career throughout her twenties.
"I sort of equate my twenties with walking into a costume shop and trying on all these different costumes, and then walking out of the costume shop in my regular outfit and being like, 'I'm cool with who I am,'" Taylor explained.
"There were times when I played hundreds of shows in a year and I was like seventeen years old, and I would get exhausted and burned out," she went on.
Taylor added that, going into her thirties, she's excited about feeling more positively about her body.
She said:
I now can really recognise and diagnose toxic messages being sent to me by society, by culture, about my body. I'm a woman, I'm not a coat hanger. I need to feel healthy in my life and I need to take pleasure in food and I need to not use my body as an exercise of control when I feel out of control in my life.
The sentiment echoes one of Taylor's points from her piece for Elle magazine earlier this year, in which she listed 30 things she'd learned before turning 30.
You can watch Taylor's full interview with Enninful here:
