The strength of Taylor Swift

As an enjoyer of Taylor Swift’s music (though not a Swiftie) and a person alive on Earth, I am eminently aware of her mega-production stadium tour shows. What has also captured my attention during the last several years, though, is Taylor’s physical journey. She doesn’t talk about it a lot, but she’s given significant glimpses that have added up over time to a pretty substantial picture, which I will here hyper-analyze in the Swiftian academic tradition.

In the 2020 documentary-lite Miss Americana, she disclosed she had an eating disorder, which she struggled with the most from the early- to mid-2010s (a time when she was very close with then-Victoria’s Secret model and now-Trump family member Karlie Kloss). This is her full description of that era (sorry):