It was a sight we never thought we'd see. Not that we're complaining.
After vowing in multiple interviews that she would keep her belly button hidden forever, Taylor Swift exposed this body part while on vacation with friends last month in Hawaii.
What prompted the unexpected Taylor Swift bikini picture?
An urge to one-up shady paparazzi, that's what!
Speaking this week with BBC Radio 1, Swift explained that her security team noticed a boat about a half mile away. It was filled with her sworn enemy.
"My security gets out binoculars and sees [the paparazzi on the boat] have a huge long-lens camera," Taylor, 25, recalls of that fateful day on the water.
"At which point, we go back to the beach and we realize, ‘Okay so they got pictures of us in our bikinis, like I don’t want them to make like $100,000 for stalking us.'"
That's why Taylor chose to snap the impromptu image herself and put it online, so the paparazzi couldn't cash in with any EXCLUSIVE TAYLOR SWIFT BIKINI PHOTOS.
Pretty smart, huh? Sticking it to 'em and using her choice of filters!
"I've never seen such stealth mode paparazzi, like, long-lensing it up, three miles away," she added of these professional stalkers on that trip.
She and Kate Middleton don't talk regularly, we're guessing.
In any case, it appears as though the only thing Taylor Swift loves more than Beyonce, and her legions of fans, is beating the paparazzi at their own game.
Yet another reason to love her!
