The 25-year-old ‘Espresso’ singer said in a new interview that pal Swift was okay with her posing for Kim Kardashian’s brand SKIMS
Sabrina Carpenter is addressing online speculation about her participation in a campaign for Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS, two months after posing for the shapewear brand.
The “Espresso” singer, 25, told Rolling Stone in a new interview published June 17 that Carpenter’s friend and tourmate Taylor Swift, 34, did not have an issue with her starring in the campaign, despite Swift’s complicated past with Kardashian, 34.
“I’ve been very, very communicative with her about that situation, and I just love her so much and support her till the end,” Carpenter told Rolling Stone of Swift.
The singer also added of online conversation about the photo shoot that “as much as people want to believe you’re tuned into every little thing, I’m not because I’m constantly working.”
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For the April campaign, the “Please Please Please” singer showcased several new SKIMS items in a nostalgic ’90s-inspired bedroom. In a press release statement, Carpenter said she “loved the femininity of the whole creative [shoot]. I love both collections, especially the delicacy of the Stretch Lace and the second-skin feel of Fits Everybody. Every piece I wore was super flattering and so comfortable, which of course is always a given with SKIMS!”
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Carpenter has been a Swiftie for years and posted covers of herself singing Swift’s songs like “White Horse” as far back as 2008. The friendship between the two singers really blossomed after Swift announced that Carpenter would be opening for her on part of the Eras Tour back in June 2023. Carpenter also attended a Kansas City Chiefs game with Swift to support Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce back in October 2023 and they were even spotted hanging out at Coachella weekend one on April 13.
“We’re very, very verbal with each other about our mutual love and admiration,” Carpenter told Rolling Stone of Swift. “I hold her to such a different echelon.”
The Swift and Kardashian situation goes back further though, really ramping up back in 2016 when the latter leaked a phone conversation between the singer and her then-husband Kanye West. In the call, they discussed West’s controversial song “Famous,” which references Swift. The full conversation between them was later leaked online in March 2020, revealing that West never told Swift the exact lyric, “I made that bitch famous.”
In her interview with Time in December 2023, Swift said that the feud between her, Kardashian and West felt like “career death.”
“You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar,” Swift said. “That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn’t trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard.”
Swift seemingly referenced the beef between her and Kardashian in the tracks “Cassandra” and “thanK you aIMee” in her recently released album, The Tortured Poets Department, and included references to the Kardashian family and the snake emojis that were prominent through their feud.
As of April 23, a source told PEOPLE that Kardashian “doesn’t get why [Swift] keeps harping on [their feud],”and that she is over it and “thinks Taylor should move on.”
