Timeline camera for the relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelse
The relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce grew from mentions on the podcast to public kisses and stage moments.
When Taylor Swift’s father, Scott Swift, had Quintople Bypass surgery this summer, he said many dads in his situation might tell their kids.
But pop stars were well aware. When her father woke up from his procedure, she was with her mother and brother, and with him when he recovered.
“We all moved with him over the summer,” Swift said, adding that he has to help him walk around. “He was the most beautiful patient ever. He kept saying ‘Thank you’ over and over again. ”
Swift appears on her boyfriend Travis Kelse’s podcast, New Heights, about her father’s surgery and her role as one of his caregivers, and co-hosted with her brother Jason Kelse. In an interview that has earned over 15 million views on YouTube since it was streamed on August 13th, Swift also talked about her life during the ERAS tour. Travis Kelse, her approach to social media, and her new sourdough has built an obsession and released her upcoming album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”
Swift said she, her brother Austin Swift and mother Andrea Swift, shifted after caring for her father when she recovered from surgery, “doing incredibly well.”
Sharing details about her father’s health was a rare moment for Swift, who tended to not discuss her family’s personal life. A recent report from AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving shows that Swift caregivers talk is also important in the world of care.
Other celebrities have recently made progress in telling their care stories, including Academy Award-nominated actor Bradley Cooper and Emmy-winning actress Uzo Adoba.
“We really encourage people like Taylor Swift when they are very open about the challenges and rewards of their father’s caregiving challenges and rewards,” said Paige Alexander, CEO of the Carter Center.
“The truth is, Taylor’s experience is not unique, but there’s a willingness to talk about it,” Alexander said. “Carefulness is an act of love, but it can often be isolated, overlooked and underrated. I hope that caregivers around the world are being seen a little more and feel rather than alone, thanks to Taylor’s story.
“It reminds me that everyone has concerns about care,” said Jocelyn Fry, president of National Partnership for Women and Families. “Everyone wants to care for a mom, father, spouse, children and family. It’s a reminder that people with access to resources can talk about their struggles, perhaps, that these issues are difficult for everyone.”
AARP CEO Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan said the organization is hearing every day from family caregivers who manage medicines, coordinate appointments, bathe loved ones, navigate insurance claims, “raising children while working, do it all while floating financially and emotionally.”
“The openness of Taylor Swift’s father care shines a light on what 63 million Americans are experiencing now,” Minter Jordan said. “Arguably the most heartbreaking, almost a quarter of caregivers say they feel totally alone. When public figures like Taylor share their caregiving journey, they break that isolation, examine the caregiver’s experiences, look at them, highlight why we have to build a system that cherishes and supports them.”
Eygenpu, executive director of transgenerational care, also commented on Swift’s story. “We’re all caring for or caring for us at some point in our lives. We all need care.
“The parent and child reversal”
Swift said the father’s five heart obstructions were detected in resting stress tests rather than annual EKG.
“He tells all his friends, ‘I need to take a stress test,'” Swift said. “Because that’s actually preventative.”
Once the blockage was found, Swift said, “It all happened really quickly.”
“It was a bit wild because…it was a very parent-child reversal,” Swift said.
She recalls fighting her parents as a teenager when she sneaked her cell phone into her room at night to talk to her friends. When her dad recovered, she said Swift and her siblings had to monitor her father’s cell phone use.
“I have a moment I like. “It’s just surreal, man.”
Swift said his mother had recently fallen on a new knee, saying she was “doing well.”
“This was like a summer of my parents’ upgrades,” Swift joked. “We’re upgrading our parents and making sure we’re at least 186 years old, because they’re two of my best friends.”
She said caring for her parents was “one of the most special things that actually happened to me.”
“I’ll spend all that time with them this summer,” Swift said. “You have those long discussions you don’t have when it’s like a small concentration period.”
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