--- title: Taylor Swift Posts Halloween Throwback on Instagram: Photo description: Showing off one of her best childhood costumes canonical: https://time.com/4092674/taylor-swift-halloween-instagram/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-29T15:52:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:00.002Z og:title: Taylor Swift Shared the Perfect Throwback Halloween Photo og:description: Showing off one of her best childhood costumes og:url: https://time.com/4092674/taylor-swift-halloween-instagram/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift Shared the Perfect Throwback Halloween Photo twitter:description: Showing off one of her best childhood costumes twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Taylor Swift Shared the Perfect Throwback Halloween Photo ## Video: 25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds [Watch (HLS stream): 25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/I8WlXTNY.m3u8) (0:35)  _Published 2014-12-11. 25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 29, 2015 3:52 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 29, 2015 3:52 PM UTC Before she was the biggest pop star on the planet, Taylor Swift was just a weird little girl who, like many of us, enjoyed dressing up in weird Halloween costumes. On Wednesday, she was kind enough to share a photo of one her best childhood costumes: Yes, that’s a young Taylor Alison Swift dressed up as a Teletubby. The only problem with this costume, as she points out in the caption, was that this went down before the Teletubbies became wildly popular, so all the other kids wondered why she was dressed as “a yellow pregnant alien.” Poor Tay-Tay. It’s so tough being ahead of the curve. As an adult, Swift is still a big fan of Halloween costumes. Last year she dressed up as a [winged unicorn](http://time.com/3551743/taylor-swift-halloween-costume-pegacorn/) (also known as a “pegacorn.”) This Halloween, she’ll be performing in Tampa, so stay tuned. Maybe she’ll trot out an even more elaborate costume during the show. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4092674/taylor-swift-halloween-instagram/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4092674/taylor-swift-halloween-instagram/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift Shared the Perfect Throwback Halloween Photo","datePublished":"2015-10-29T15:52:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:00.002Z","description":"Showing off one of her best childhood costumes","url":"https://time.com/4092674/taylor-swift-halloween-instagram/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4092674/taylor-swift-halloween-instagram/","name":"Taylor Swift Shared the Perfect Throwback Halloween Photo"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds","description":"25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/I8WlXTNY/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-11T16:58:18.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/I8WlXTNY.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4092674/taylor-swift-halloween-instagram/","duration":"PT35S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4092674/taylor-swift-halloween-instagram/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```