Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift have always been close — and that bond extends to family members as well.
The singer from “I Said I Love You First”, aged 32, posted a birthday message for her sister, Gracie Elliot Teefey, on Instagram on Thursday, June 12, showcasing their close bond.
On her Instagram Stories, the former star of “Wizards of Waverly Place” was seen sitting on a bed with Gracie in front of a TV. Gracie pressed a button on the remote, and Taylor Swift’s music video “The Man” started playing.
“There, now we can watch the video too,” Gracie, 12, told her older sister.
When posting the clip, Gomez joked in response, “When she loves auntie Taylor more than me.”
In honor of her sister’s birthday, Gomez also posted a collection of photos featuring herself and Gracie throughout the years, dating back to when Gracie was just an infant.
“Happy birthday to my baby sissy. As I cry writing this, my heart melts because I know you know I’m always on your side. No matter what. I love you baby girl 💕” she gushed in the caption.
A strong bond between the women was forged early on in their careers with Gomez and Swift first meeting in 2008 while dating brothers Nick Jonas and Joe Jonas, respectively.
“I knew from when I met [Selena] I would always have her back,” Swift, 35, told The Wall Street Journal in 2020. “In my life, I have the ability to forgive people who have hurt me. But I don’t know if I can forgive someone who hurts her.”
For her part, Gomez told the outlet that the pair “clicked instantly.”
“That was my girl,” Gomez gushed at the time. “We both went through s**t at the same time. She taught me a lot about how I should be treated at a young age.”
Earlier this year, Gomez revealed a “sweet” experience that she shared with Swift. Gomez recalled that she made the Tortured Poets Department singer cry after playing her then-unreleased song, “Lose You to Love Me” to Swift.
“When I played her ‘Lose You to Love Me,’ right before it came out [in 2019], she and her amazing mom [Andrea Swift] started to cry and then I started crying,” Gomez said in an interview with iHeartRadio in March. “You know, it’s very sweet.”
In “Lose You to Love Me,” Gomez sings about reclaiming herself after the end of a relationship that was no longer serving her, with many fans speculating it to be about her romance with Justin Bieber. Gomez and Bieber had an on-again, off-again relationship between 2009 and 2018, before he ultimately married Hailey Bieber and she moved on with Benny Blanco.
