Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift have always been close — and that bond extends to family members as well.
The I Said I Love You First singer, 32, shared a birthday tribute to her sister, Gracie Elliot Teefey, via Instagram on Thursday, June 12, which revealed the connection.
In the video uploaded via Gomez’s Instagram Stories, the Wizards of Waverly Place alum sat on a bed across from Gracie in front of a TV. When Gracie hit a button on the remote, Swift’s “The Man” music video began playing.
“There, now we can watch the video too,” Gracie, 12, told her older sister.
When posting the clip, Gomez joked in response, “When she loves auntie Taylor more than me.”
To celebrate her sibling’s birthday, Gomez also shared a carousel of photos of herself with Gracie over the years, starting from when the preteen was just a baby.
“Happy birthday to my baby sissy. As I cry writing this, my heart melts because I know you know I’m always on your side. No matter what. I love you baby girl ????” she gushed in the caption.
A strong bond between the women was forged early on in their careers with Gomez and Swift first meeting in 2008 while dating brothers Nick Jonas and Joe Jonas, respectively.
“I knew from when I met [Selena] I would always have her back,” Swift, 35, told The Wall Street Journal in 2020. “In my life, I have the ability to forgive people who have hurt me. But I don’t know if I can forgive someone who hurts her.”
For her part, Gomez told the outlet that the pair “clicked instantly.”
“That was my girl,” Gomez gushed at the time. “We both went through s**t at the same time. She taught me a lot about how I should be treated at a young age.”
Earlier this year, Gomez revealed a “sweet” experience that she shared with Swift. Gomez recalled that she made the Tortured Poets Department singer cry after playing her then-unreleased song, “Lose You to Love Me” to Swift.
“When I played her ‘Lose You to Love Me,’ right before it came out [in 2019], she and her amazing mom [Andrea Swift] started to cry and then I started crying,” Gomez said in an interview with iHeartRadio in March. “You know, it’s very sweet.”
In “Lose You to Love Me,” Gomez sings about reclaiming herself after the end of a relationship that was no longer serving her, with many fans speculating it to be about her romance with Justin Bieber. Gomez and Bieber had an on-again, off-again relationship between 2009 and 2018, before he ultimately married Hailey Bieber and she moved on with Benny Blanco.
