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She may be a famous singer, but she’s a

lot more like you than you’d think!

TAYLOR SWIFT

is just like you!

She’s super-close turned 13 on Friday the 13th. My first album went

1with her family. gold in 13 weeks. My first number one song had a

Taylor’s parents have always 13-second intro.”

been really supportive of her She enjoyed school.
dreams, and that’s why they’re 4 “English class was always my

so tight. They even moved her favorite because of the reading, the
— and her younger brother, writing and mostly because of the

Austin — to Nashville when she was 14 so she poetry,” Taylor reveals. She was also a

could pursue a country music career! “They really great student — she graduated high
believed in me,” Taylor shares. school with a 4.0 GPA (that’s all A’s!).

She grew up in a She’s a kid at heart.

2small town. 5 Growing up, you often think adults are too

Like many of you, Taylor didn’t serious or “no fun.” That’s not how Taylor wants to
spend her childhood in a big, be. “I dance like I’m having fun at

glamorous city. She spent awards shows, even though no one
most of it in the small town of else is,” she smiles. “Because being

Wyomissing, PA. Though, there cool usually means being bored by

was one unusual thing about her home: It was on a everything, and I’m not.”
Christmas tree farm! And Taylor worked on it: “We She wasn’t always

all had jobs. Mine was picking the praying mantis
6popular.
pods off of the trees, collecting them so that the
“Junior high was actually sort of hard because I
bugs wouldn’t hatch inside people’s houses.”
got dumped by this group of popular girls,” Taylor
She has a lucky admits. “They didn’t think I was cool or pretty

3 number. enough, so they stopped talking to me.” That was a

“Thirteen is my lucky number,” Taylor terrible experience for Tay, but she credits that dark
reveals. “I was born on the 13th. I time with help her find her passion for songwriting.