As a surprise to no one, Taylor Swift and her bestie, Victoria’s Secret model and doppelganger Karlie Kloss, are the latest cover girls for Vogue Magazine.
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Zendaya, Hailee Steinfeld, Taylor Swift, Lily Aldridge and Martha Hunt arrive at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 18, 2015
Taylor Swift Grants Terminally Ill 4-Year-Old's Final Wish, Talks Via FaceTime With Cancer Patient
Taylor Swift's got a big heart. On Monday, March 2, the 25-year-old singer learned that a young fan of hers, 4-year-old Jalene Salinas was desperate to dance with her to "Shake It Off."
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Salinas has an aggressive form of terminal brain cancer, and while her parents had worked hard to tick off all the items on her bucket list as her condition worsened, the dream to dance with Swift had seemed like it was too much to achieve.
At least, that was, until Swift got wind of the little girl's final wish. As #ShakeItOffJalene started trending on Twitter at the weekend, the Grammy-winning singer became aware of the San Antonio, Texas tot's dream. In true Swift style, she did what she could to make her tiny fan's wish come true.
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"I'm so sorry you're having a bad night, I'm so happy to talk to you though and I'm so happy you like ‘Shake it Off'" Swift told her little fan during a 20-minute FaceTime conversation. "You look beautiful tonight, you really do. You're just as pretty as your pictures."
Jalene's mom, Jennifer Arriagas, told KENS5 News
that even though her daughter was in pain and didn't talk much during
the conversation, her face lit up when she saw the singer's image on her
cell phone.
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"We can check everything off and as her mom it just, it means the world to me that she got to do and see [everything] and everything is checked off now," Arriagas told the outlet. "It means so much to me that [she] reached out to us."
Watch the emotional moment that Swift connects with little Jalene on the link above.
PHOTOS: Taylor Swift's best surprised faces
Salinas has an aggressive form of terminal brain cancer, and while her parents had worked hard to tick off all the items on her bucket list as her condition worsened, the dream to dance with Swift had seemed like it was too much to achieve.
At least, that was, until Swift got wind of the little girl's final wish. As #ShakeItOffJalene started trending on Twitter at the weekend, the Grammy-winning singer became aware of the San Antonio, Texas tot's dream. In true Swift style, she did what she could to make her tiny fan's wish come true.
PHOTOS: Stars who care
"I'm so sorry you're having a bad night, I'm so happy to talk to you though and I'm so happy you like ‘Shake it Off'" Swift told her little fan during a 20-minute FaceTime conversation. "You look beautiful tonight, you really do. You're just as pretty as your pictures."
Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
PHOTOS: Taylor's celebrity BFFs
"We can check everything off and as her mom it just, it means the world to me that she got to do and see [everything] and everything is checked off now," Arriagas told the outlet. "It means so much to me that [she] reached out to us."
Watch the emotional moment that Swift connects with little Jalene on the link above.
Taylor Swift Applauds Emma Watson As A Feminist Icon
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Swift had nothing but praise for Watson while discussing the "Harry Potter" star's United Nations speech about feminism and gender equality on French-Canadian talk show "Tout Le Monde En Parle" on Sunday.
"I wish when I was 12 years old I would've been able to watch a video of my favorite actress explaining in such an intellectual, beautiful, poignant way the definition of feminism because I would've understood it, and then earlier on in my life I would have proudly claimed that I was a feminist because I would have understood what the word means," Swift said.
"So many girls out there say, 'I'm not a feminist' because they think it means something angry or disgruntled or complaining or they picture, like, rioting and picketing. It is not that at all. It just simply means that you believe that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities. To say that you're not a feminist means that you think men should have more rights and opportunities than women. I just think that a lot of girls don't know the definition and the fact that Emma got up and explained it I think is an incredible thing and I'm happy to live in a world where that happened."
"One thing that I do believe as a feminist is that in order for us to have gender equality we have to stop making it a girl fight," she said. "We have to stop being so interested in seeing girls try to tear each other down. It has to be more about cheering each other on as women."
Swift's take on feminism has certainly evolved over time. In 2012, when the Daily Beast asked Swift if she considers herself a feminist, the country singer responded: "I don’t really think about things as guys versus girls. I never have. I was raised by parents who brought me up to think if you work as hard as guys, you can go far in life."
In August, she explained to the Guardian that as a teenager she misunderstood the concept of feminism to mean "hating men." She credited Lena Dunham as someone who aided her enlightenment.
"Becoming friends with Lena –- without her preaching to me, but just seeing why she believes what she believes, why she says what she says, why she stands for what she stands for –- has made me realize that I’ve been taking a feminist stance without actually saying so," she added.
Watch Swift's full interview below. See discussion on women at the 10:16 mark.
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