Some celebrities put bags over their heads. Others hit them with their cars. Kanye West cusses them out. But Taylor Swift has figured out the most genius method of handling the paparazzi.
Bikinis.
If you remember, Swift used to be hell bent on hiding her bellybutton from the world. It was something she said she wanted to remain “a mystery.” So she really threw everyone for a loop when she put up a picture on Instagram in January of her wearing a bikini on a yacht while whale-watching in Maui, and there was her bellybutton, front and center.
And now she’s explaining how she thinks a photo of a bunch of girls in bikinis can derail the paparazzi.
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“My security gets out the binoculars and sees that [the paparazzi] have a huge long lens camera, at which point, we go back to the beach and realize, ‘okay, so they got pictures of us in our bikinis,'” Swift said on a BBC radio show. (RELATED: Stop Underestimating How Hot Taylor Swift Really Is)
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“I don’t want them to make, like, $100,000 for a bikini shot. And so we’re like, ‘Get up on the bow of the boat: we’re taking better bikini shots so that they don’t make as much money on theirs.'” (RELATED: Did Taylor Swift’s Nude Photos Just Get Released In A Hack?)