Who needs one best friend when you can have them all?
Wednesday afternoon, Taylor Swift uploaded a slew of photos to her Instagram account of the pop princess frolicking alongside Karlie Kloss in California. Kloss even scrawled “Karlie ♥ ’s Taylor” in the sand.
The Victoria’s Secret model is just the latest in a long history of Swift’s rotating roster of BFFs. Last year, the 24-year-old starlet even admitted to having “15 best friends” during a segment of “On Air With Ryan Seacrest.” Not that we can blame her — who wouldn’t want to be buds with a seven-time Grammy winner who raked in more than $55 million last year alone?
Which other lucky celebs have earned a coveted spot on Swift’s Instagram wall of BFF fame?
Karlie Kloss
On break from her worldwide tour, Swift joined her celebrity look-alike Kloss for a road trip to Big Sur. She reportedly befriended the 21-year-old supermodel when Swift performed at the Victoria’s Secret Runway Show in November, and the two were recently spotted at the Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar viewing party in West Hollywood.
Lorde
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
Things got off to a rocky start between the two, when the 17-year-old Kiwi called Swift a bad role model because her image is “so flawless and so unattainable” and also accused Selena Gomez of being anti-feminist.
“Taylor is buttering up Lorde, because she wants a musical collaboration and knows that Lorde is the hottest new thing in pop music,” an inside source told Heatworld.com. “Taylor is blowing off the diss. She wants an edgier image, and Lorde is helping her craft that.”
Jaime King
The blond beauties have been spotted together several times in LA since the New Year. Swift joined King, who gave birth to her first child four months ago, in Beverly Hills in January, where they shared an intimate conversation over lunch. What could the duo, who are a decade apart, have to talk about?
Ellie Goulding
The pop stars may be an ocean apart, but they’ve been teaming up onstage since last summer, when Swift invited the 27-year-old to the Staples Center in LA to perform Goulding’s single “Anything Could Happen.”
The two have shared much more than just the stage, though — both have also had romantic ties to boy band One Direction (Harry Styles for Swift, Niall Horan for Goulding).
Most recently, they rendezvoused in London during the European leg of Swift’s “Red” tour.
Cara Delevingne
Swift has shared both the catwalk and Harry Styles with Cara Delevingne, the 21-year-old who has taken the modeling world by storm. The two likely had plenty to talk about while Swift was across the pond during her “Red” tour.
Sarah Hyland
The 23-year-old “Modern Family” actress won the ultimate honor by being selected to ring in the New Year with Swiftie. The two were introduced by Gomez at the VMAs last August, which evolved into a friendship full of Instagram shots and award-show after-parties.
Hailee Steinfeld
When Swift wants to get crafty, she rings up Steinfeld. The down-to-earth 17-year-old spent the holidays making Christmas cards and baking cookies. Swift’s “amazing,” Steinfeld said to Ellen DeGeneres in October. “We hang out and bake and talk about boys and stuff. And we watch hours of cat videos on YouTube.”
Ed Sheeran
English singer-songwriter Sheeran got his big break when Swift invited him to be the opening act for the North American leg of her “Red” tour last summer, but the two have remained close friends.
“Ed and I are such good friends,” she said in the November 2013 issue of InStyle. “It’s always kind of creepy because with a guy friend/girl friends situation, it usually feels like one person always wants more. That’s not the case here. If [a guy] wants to be friends with me, just know people are going to say we’re dating.”
Ellen DeGeneres
Swift has made nine appearances on DeGeneres’ show, but their friendship doesn’t end when the “Ellen” cameras stop rolling. In 2011, the TV host joined Swift backstage at the Staples Center in LA for some vocal warm-ups and jokingly dubbed the young singer her “protégée.”
Dianna Agron
The blondies made their friendship status official when Swift Instagrammed pics from Agron’s circus-themed birthday party in 2012. That summer, the two were inseparable — Swift even credits Agron as part of the inspiration for her hit song “22.”
But then Agron rolled her eyes at Swift in a Vine video, and the two haven’t been spotted together since.
Selena Gomez
The besties, who are frequently spotted side-by-side at award shows, met six years ago when they both snagged a Jonas brother (Joe for Swift, Nick for Gomez).
“She was so great to me,” Gomez gushed to the Herald Sun about the first time they met. “Then we became best friends. She would fly out to see me when I was going through something really hard. We’d eat a lot of fattening food and vent.”
Their friendship has been strained recently, following Gomez’s troubled relationship with Justin Bieber and Swift’s blossoming friendship with frenemy Lorde.
Bruce Springsteen
It’s the Boss. No explanation necessary.