--- title: Taylor Swift Celebrated Selena Gomez's Birthday With a Cake description: The 'Reputation' singer didn't let distance stop her from making her friend Gomez a birthday cake, even if they were far apart for the day. canonical: https://time.com/5345870/selena-gomez-birthday/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-07-23T15:20:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:59.151Z og:title: Taylor Swift Has a Sweet Gesture for Selena Gomez's Birthday og:description: The ever-theatrical and pastry-minded Swift celebrated with a sweet gesture og:url: https://time.com/5345870/selena-gomez-birthday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltabcd38026dcf040a/698935fc4ee262b85131265e/taylor-swift-selena-gomez.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Taylor Swift reputation Stadium Tour og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift Has a Sweet Gesture for Selena Gomez's Birthday twitter:description: The ever-theatrical and pastry-minded Swift celebrated with a sweet gesture twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltabcd38026dcf040a/698935fc4ee262b85131265e/taylor-swift-selena-gomez.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Taylor Swift Didn't Let Distance Stop Her From Making a Sweet Gesture for Selena Gomez's Birthday  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 23, 2018 3:20 PM UTC  Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez perform onstage during the Taylor Swift reputation Stadium Tour at the Rose Bowl on May 19, 2018 in Pasadena, California. Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez perform onstage during the Taylor Swift reputation Stadium Tour at the Rose Bowl on May 19, 2018 in Pasadena, California.Christopher Polk/TAS18—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 23, 2018 3:20 PM UTC Leave it to [Taylor Swift](http://time.com/5341750/taylor-swift-national-snake-day/) to celebrate her friend’s birthday with a very sweet gesture — quite literally. Swift, currently on the East Coast for her [_Reputation_ stadium tour,](http://time.com/money/5269294/taylor-swift-reputation-tour-cheap-tickets/) may be far away from her friend [Selena Gomez](http://time.com/5050179/selena-gomez-instagram-private/). But that didn’t mean the ever-theatrical and [pastry-minded](https://firstwefeast.com/eat/2016/04/taylor-swift-birthday-cake-jay-z) Swift couldn’t pull out all the stops to make sure that Gomez’s big day was marked properly. “Will I let distance stop me from celebrating my best friend’s birthday? I mean I could but WHY WOULD I WANT 2 \[sic\],” the singer posted on an Instagram story. The star image of the story: a pink-frosted birthday cake, decorated with the appropriately-chosen phrase “Gomez or go home.” At the center of the cake, a number “26” took pride of place, as Gomez turned 26 on July 22. It’s been just a minute since Gomez and Swift, known for their [friendship over the years](http://time.com/5052045/selena-gomez-taylor-swift-friends/), have hung out together publicly; Gomez last popped up to join Swift onstage during the Pasadena stop of her _Reputation_ tour in May. But while Gomez herself remained silent on social media for her birthday, Swift clearly didn’t want the world to forget to send some good wishes in the direction of her fellow pop star. Swift just finished performing three consecutive nights at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, keeping the show going despite torrential rain on two evenings. She is next [headed to Massachusetts](https://www.ticketmaster.com/Taylor-Swift-tickets/artist/1094215) as her tour continues, although perhaps the biggest Swift news of late has been her casting in an upcoming [movie adaptation of _Cats_.](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/movies/cats-james-corden-taylor-swift.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5345870/selena-gomez-birthday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5345870/selena-gomez-birthday/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift Didn't Let Distance Stop Her From Making a Sweet Gesture for Selena Gomez's Birthday","datePublished":"2018-07-23T15:20:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:59.151Z","description":"What's a friend's birthday without some cake?","url":"https://time.com/5345870/selena-gomez-birthday/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Taylor Swift","Selena Gomez"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltabcd38026dcf040a/698935fc4ee262b85131265e/taylor-swift-selena-gomez.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltabcd38026dcf040a/698935fc4ee262b85131265e/taylor-swift-selena-gomez.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Taylor Swift reputation Stadium Tour","caption":"Taylor Swift reputation Stadium Tour","creditText":"Christopher Polk/TAS18—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5345870/selena-gomez-birthday/","name":"Taylor Swift Didn't Let Distance Stop Her From Making a Sweet Gesture for Selena Gomez's Birthday"}}]}] ```