--- title: Karlie Kloss Confirms She's Still Friends With Taylor Swift description: On a recent episode of 'Watch What Happens Live,' Karlie Kloss responded to a caller question about her friendship with Taylor Swift. canonical: https://time.com/5552596/karlie-kloss-taylor-swift-friends/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-15T17:50:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:09.578Z og:title: Karlie Kloss Said the Nicest Things About Taylor Swift og:description: On a talk show, Karlie Kloss responded to a fan question about Taylor Swift og:url: https://time.com/5552596/karlie-kloss-taylor-swift-friends/ 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: Karlie Kloss Said the Nicest Things About Taylor Swift twitter:description: On a talk show, Karlie Kloss responded to a fan question about Taylor Swift twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Karlie Kloss Confirmed Her Taylor Swift Friendship Is Still Definitely Alive With a Sharp Answer > Sponsored content. 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Time 100 honoree and model Karlie Kloss on still being nervous when she's photographed and why she's passionate about coding._  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 15, 2019 5:50 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 15, 2019 5:50 PM UTC Relax, [Taylor Swift](http://time.com/5538862/taylor-swift-countdown/) and [Karlie Kloss](http://time.com/5379104/taylor-swift-karlie-kloss-reputation-tour/) fans: the heyday of the [infamous girl squad](http://time.com/4833926/taylor-swift-july-4th-2017-friends/) may be over, but supermodel and newly-minted [_Project Runway_](http://time.com/5547685/project-runway-2019-review-bravo/) host Kloss has confirmed that she’s still friends with her pop star pal. In an appearance on [Andy Cohen](http://time.com/5521198/andy-cohen-baby-son/)‘s _Watch What Happens Live_, Kloss responded to a question sent in by a viewer about her relationship with Swift, in light of the essay Swift recently published in _Elle_ magazine [about social media](http://time.com/5546298/why-taylor-swift-turned-off-instagram-comments/), friendship and insecurities. “Taylor’s incredible, and I feel really lucky to call her a friend,” Kloss said, very diplomatically. “She’s one of the hardest working women, and I loved her essay.” [In that essay,](https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a26628467/taylor-swift-30th-birthday-lessons/) which saw Swift reflecting on the lessons she’s learned as she approaches 30, she wrote: --- > “” --- Kloss and Swift have a long history together, but life has taken them in different directions of late, with Kloss focusing on her [coding projects](http://time.com/4721959/karlie-kloss-kode-with-klossy/), wedding with [Josh Kushner](http://time.com/5214948/joshua-kushner-march-for-our-lives/) and now TV hosting gigs. Swift, meanwhile, has been on a giant world tour for her album _Reputation_, and then has since kept a low profile while dating her British boyfriend — the actor Joe Alwyn — and filming for the upcoming film adaptation of the play _Cats_. But even if we don’t see them hanging out together all that frequently as we once did on Swift’s social media accounts, Kloss’s response should set to rest any rumors that the two aren’t still perfectly friendly. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5552596/karlie-kloss-taylor-swift-friends/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5552596/karlie-kloss-taylor-swift-friends/"},"headline":"Karlie Kloss Confirmed Her Taylor Swift Friendship Is Still Definitely Alive With a Sharp Answer","datePublished":"2019-03-15T17:50:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:09.578Z","description":"\"I feel really lucky to call her a friend\"","url":"https://time.com/5552596/karlie-kloss-taylor-swift-friends/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Taylor Swift","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"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/5552596/karlie-kloss-taylor-swift-friends/","name":"Karlie Kloss Confirmed Her Taylor Swift Friendship Is Still Definitely Alive With a Sharp Answer"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME 100: Karlie Kloss","description":"Time 100 honoree and model Karlie Kloss on still being nervous when she's photographed and why she's passionate about coding.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/0tEgInt2/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-04-15T16:02:37.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/0tEgInt2.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5552596/karlie-kloss-taylor-swift-friends/","duration":"PT2M35S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5552596/karlie-kloss-taylor-swift-friends/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```