Taylor Swift’s engagement to Travis Kelce has been cause for celebration over the last 24 hours — and perhaps even more so given her past feelings about marriage.
Back in 2019, when Swift, 35, released her seventh studio album, Lover, the pop star included highly personal diary entries dating back to when she was 13 in deluxe editions of the record.
One journal entry, in particular, has resurfaced and is striking a chord with Swifties in light of her joyous engagement news on Tuesday, August 26.
“I somehow feel like it’s my destiny to roll my eyes at happy couples and resent Valentine’s Day,” the singer wrote in a diary entry dated March 17, 2009, when she was 19.
Has Taylor Swift Spoken About Marriage Before Travis Kelce Engagement?
Swift wrote at the time, “I also feel like I’m the girl before ‘The One.’ I’m not the ‘The One.’ I’m the girl you think is The One for you, and when it doesn’t work out with me, you meet the next girl and realize she IS The One. The One you’re gonna stay with.”
“I might get married. But I think it’s ultimately my fate to light candles and pine away and roll my eyes at happy couples and resent Valentine’s Day,” Swift concluded.
Of course, the Grammy-winning pop star has found her own happy ending with Kelce, also 35, with whom she announced her engagement on Tuesday after two years of dating.
The couple shared a carousel of images from the moment Kelce proposed to Swift at a garden in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, earlier this month. They captioned the joint Instagram post, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”
In an interview with News 5 Cleveland on Tuesday, Travis’ dad, Ed Kelce, revealed that the Kansas City Chiefs tight end popped the question “maybe two weeks ago.”
“He got her out there, they were about to go out to dinner, and he said, ‘Let’s go out and have a glass of wine.’ … They got out there, and that’s when he asked her, and it was beautiful,” Ed said. “They started FaceTiming me and their mother and her folks to make sure everybody knew. So, to see them together is great.”
Ed said that his son wanted to ensure his proposal was “some grand thing, to make it a big special event,” but he assured Kelce that “you could do it on the side of the road, do it any place” and it would be “a special event … when you get down on one knee and ask her to marry you.”
