Taylor Swift will be an aunt again! “I can do this with a broken heart” The singer’s longtime best friend, Abigail Anderson Berard, is pregnant.
Berard is expecting her first child with husband Charles after the couple tied the knot in 2022. The 34-year-old mom-to-be shared the news on Instagram with a lyric from Swift’s latest album, The Department of Tortured Poets.
“I’m having his baby…” she wrote, referring to Swift’s song “But daddy I love you.” She added a blue heart emoji to the post.
In the accompanying photo, Berard poses in a black shirt held up by just one button as she shows off her baby bump and munches on Cheez-Its.
“A good girlfriend to me is someone who is an individual and has something that she is deeply passionate about.” Swift told ET in 2014. “Abigail works to make sure that World War II veterans get their compensation. Like, she’s so passionate about it and it couldn’t be more different than my career or Lena’s (Dunham) career, but the fact that she’s so passionate about what she does allows her to be able to relate to me on that level, that I’m so dedicated to what I do.”
Berard is currently listed as Chief of Staff, Corporate Development for Celeroa high-tech payment processing solutions company.
Swift and Berard met in high school, with the singer sharing details about their history on her 2008 album. Fearless to knock, “Fifteen.”
“You sit in class next to a redhead named Abigail / And soon you’re best friends,” Swift sings on the track. “Laughing at the other girls / Who think they’re so cool / We’ll get out of here as fast as we can.”
Swift was a bridesmaid at her best friend’s first wedding to Matt Lucier in 2017. The former couple split in 2021.
According to Us WeeklySwift was recently in attendance at Berard’s birthday party in Los Angeles earlier this year. The star was photographed dining with a group inside Barney’s Beanery — notably alone, without a date. Travis Kelce in tow — on April 4, with the photos later published by TMZ. The outlet reported that Swift paid the bill that night.
A year earlier, Berard shared an adorable photo of her and Swift laughing their heads off as she celebrated her 2023 birthday.
“Cause when you’re… 33 🦊,” she wrote at the time, referencing the chorus of “Fifteen.”
Swift didn’t appear to react to Berard’s new pregnancy announcement, as she is currently performing overseas. your Eras tour in Germany. She is due to take to the stage in Munich on Saturday and Sunday.
Last year, Anderson was seen in the crowd singing “Fifteen” while supporting Swift at the Eras tour stop in Nashville, Tennessee.
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