Taylor Swift brought Karlie Kloss to Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday, watching the Kansas City Chiefs take on the New York Jets from a suite alongside Swift's parents, Andrea and Scott Swift. It marked the first time the two were photographed together since 2018, ending years of chatter about whether their once-tight friendship had quietly fallen apart.
According to People, the outing came as Swift cheered on her husband, Travis Kelce, with the Chiefs ultimately defeating the Jets. The magazine reported that Swift and Kloss first became friends back in 2013, a bond that would play out in public for years before the sightings grew scarce. Kloss was also on hand in July when Swift and Kelce married at Madison Square Garden, per the same outlet.
A Decade of On-Again, Off-Again Public Appearances
As reported by Entertainment Weekly, Swift and Kloss were last photographed together in August 2018, when Kloss went backstage at a Nashville stop on Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour. That gap stretched for years, fueling speculation that something had changed between them. The Independent notes that Kloss also appeared in Swift's “Bad Blood” music video in 2015, a visible marker of just how public their friendship once was.
Per InStyle, the two women appeared together frequently between late 2013 and late 2016, a stretch that made their later absence from each other's public lives all the more noticeable. HELLO! reports that as their joint appearances became increasingly rare, rumors began circulating that the friendship had come to an end, rumors that Kloss later denied, according to People.
Rift Rumors Resurfaced in 2019
The speculation didn't stay dormant for long. The Independent reports that further questions about the friendship's status emerged in 2019, after Kloss was photographed with talent manager Scooter Braun, whose name had become a flashpoint in other corners of Swift's public life. That moment added another layer to a narrative that had already been building for years.
Sunday's joint appearance at Arrowhead Stadium offered the clearest sign yet that whatever distance existed between the two has closed. With Swift's parents in the suite alongside them and Kloss having already stood by Swift at her wedding this past summer, the two appear to be back in each other's orbit. Kloss has previously denied a falling out.
