Taylor Swift is stunning and sophisticated on Vogue magazine cover... but reveals she's been through ANOTHER 'earth shattering heartbreak'
By Eleanor Gower
She made her name as an occasionally gawky teenage country singer who wrote songs about love, heartbreak and being an outsider.
But there was nothing remotely nerdy about Taylor Swift on this month's cover of Vogue magazine.
The 22-year-old singer looks stunning and sophisticated in a serious of beautiful outfits in the classy photographs, taken by celebrity photographer Mario Testino.
She's in vogue: Taylor Swift looks stunning in white heeled boots and a long green dress and yellow sunflowers in the new issue of Vogue magazine
One shot shows her posing on a vintage sofa in a striking pale green dress with floral design, teamed with high heeled white boots.
Straightened hair and and smokey eye make-up compete the look, which Taylor also replicates with a prestigious cover spot for the magazine.
Famous for writing about her personal life through her songs, Taylor says that her fourth album - the successor to her 2010 record Speak Now - will document more heartbreak.
'There’s just been this earth-shattering, not recent, but absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak,' she tells the magazine. 'And that will turn out to be what the next album is about.
'The only way that I can feel better about myself—pull myself out of that awful pain of losing someone - is writing songs about it to get some sort of clarity.'
She also says that she is currently single, with no potential love matches on the horizon.
'I got nothing going on. I just don’t really feel like dating,' she says in the interview, which appeared to have taken place late last year.
'I really have this great life right now, and I’m not sad and I’m not crying this Christmas, so I am really stoked about that. I am not gonna go into it. It’s a sad story.'
According to Vogue, Taylor was dating Jake Gyllenhaal through the autumn of 2010 and he broke up with her around the Christmas holidays.
Stunning: Taylor looked older than her 22 years with straight hair and stunning make-up as she was photographed by Mario Testino for Vogue
She is previously said to have dated Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner and John Mayer, with Jonas famously dumping her in a 27 second phone call.
'I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid,' she tells Vogue.
However, the star has learned a few things from her failed relationships - 'I have a few red flags now'- and lists them for the magazine.
They include 'If someone doesn’t seem to want to get to know me as a person but instead seems to have kind of bought into the whole idea of me and he approves of my Wikipedia page,' along with 'men who are threatened by what I do.'
'Also I can't deal with someone who’s obsessed with privacy. 'If you care about privacy to the point where we need to dig a tunnel under this restaurant so that we can leave? I can’t do that.'
The magazine also shows the star looking svelte in a pair of tight black trousers, high heeled boots and decorated beige jacket.
However, the lucky singer says she doesn't like to work out too much.
Growing up fast: Taylor looks like she is growing up fast in the new issue of Vogue in comparison to her appearance four years ago'I don’t ever want to be that person whose self-image overtakes who they are. I am not a fan of working out that much.'
'There’s no regimen. There’s no personal trainer. I love to go hiking because it’s an experience. If I need to gain stamina for a tour, I will run every single night on the treadmill, but I don’t necessarily like being at the gym.'
The latest issue of Vogue is on sale on newstands on January 24.
By Eleanor Gower
She made her name as an occasionally gawky teenage country singer who wrote songs about love, heartbreak and being an outsider.
But there was nothing remotely nerdy about Taylor Swift on this month's cover of Vogue magazine.
The 22-year-old singer looks stunning and sophisticated in a serious of beautiful outfits in the classy photographs, taken by celebrity photographer Mario Testino.
She's in vogue: Taylor Swift looks stunning in white heeled boots and a long green dress and yellow sunflowers in the new issue of Vogue magazine
One shot shows her posing on a vintage sofa in a striking pale green dress with floral design, teamed with high heeled white boots.
Straightened hair and and smokey eye make-up compete the look, which Taylor also replicates with a prestigious cover spot for the magazine.
Famous for writing about her personal life through her songs, Taylor says that her fourth album - the successor to her 2010 record Speak Now - will document more heartbreak.
'There’s just been this earth-shattering, not recent, but absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak,' she tells the magazine. 'And that will turn out to be what the next album is about.
Country in colour: Taylor wear a pair of tight black trousers and an embellished cream jacket with high heeled boots as she poses by a fireplace with a guitar in one shot
'The only way that I can feel better about myself—pull myself out of that awful pain of losing someone - is writing songs about it to get some sort of clarity.'
She also says that she is currently single, with no potential love matches on the horizon.
'I got nothing going on. I just don’t really feel like dating,' she says in the interview, which appeared to have taken place late last year.
'I really have this great life right now, and I’m not sad and I’m not crying this Christmas, so I am really stoked about that. I am not gonna go into it. It’s a sad story.'
According to Vogue, Taylor was dating Jake Gyllenhaal through the autumn of 2010 and he broke up with her around the Christmas holidays.
Stunning: Taylor looked older than her 22 years with straight hair and stunning make-up as she was photographed by Mario Testino for Vogue
She is previously said to have dated Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner and John Mayer, with Jonas famously dumping her in a 27 second phone call.
'I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid,' she tells Vogue.
However, the star has learned a few things from her failed relationships - 'I have a few red flags now'- and lists them for the magazine.
They include 'If someone doesn’t seem to want to get to know me as a person but instead seems to have kind of bought into the whole idea of me and he approves of my Wikipedia page,' along with 'men who are threatened by what I do.'
'Also I can't deal with someone who’s obsessed with privacy. 'If you care about privacy to the point where we need to dig a tunnel under this restaurant so that we can leave? I can’t do that.'
The magazine also shows the star looking svelte in a pair of tight black trousers, high heeled boots and decorated beige jacket.
However, the lucky singer says she doesn't like to work out too much.
Growing up fast: Taylor looks like she is growing up fast in the new issue of Vogue in comparison to her appearance four years ago
'There’s no regimen. There’s no personal trainer. I love to go hiking because it’s an experience. If I need to gain stamina for a tour, I will run every single night on the treadmill, but I don’t necessarily like being at the gym.'
The latest issue of Vogue is on sale on newstands on January 24.