Taylor Swift’s longtime friend Kayla Collins offers rare insight into the singer’s connection to stardom since childhood.
The 38-year-old model, who was Playmate of the month in the 2008 issue Playboymade a surprising confession about her connection with the singer.
During her recent appearance at the Girls Next Level podcast on Monday, October 6, she said, “I grew up in a small town. The closest I live is to a place called Reading, Pa. I randomly went to theater school with Taylor Swift. She was like the star of every play we did. It was a theater school where we kind of loved Bye Bye Birdie. She was always the star in everything. It was kind of a surprise that she would become who she is today.”
In particular the Cruel summer hitmaker has long been known as a theater kid.
Earlier in 2024, comedian Tobin Mitnick shared a series of images of himself and Swift from their stage production Fat.
He captioned the post: “Thanks mom for digging out these photos of @taylorswift and I harmonizing like buttah on summer nights twenty-five years ago.”
Meanwhile, the Empty space singer recently released her twelfth studio album, The life of a showgirl.
For the unversed, the album was released on Friday, October 3 and was a huge success.

