Taylor Swift Had The Perfect Response To Lady Gaga Shutting Down Pregnancy Rumors With Her Song

"Not pregnant — just down bad crying at the gym," Lady Gaga says in the video, referencing "Down Bad" from Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department. She goes on to tell viewers to "register to vote or check if you're registered EASILY at www.headcount.org" in the caption.

While Lady Gaga's response (and her using the opportunity to remind viewers to vote) is inspiring, it's frustrating that women constantly have to debunk rumors when people could just...not talk about women's bodies. And apparently Taylor Swift agrees.

“Can we all agree that its invasive & irresponsible to comment on a woman’s body," Taylor Swift commented on the video (via @commentsbycelebs). "Gaga doesn’t owe anyone an explanation & neither does any woman.”

Taylor Swift herself has been subject to pregnancy rumors and paparazzi galore, and revealed in her 2020 documentary Miss Americana that she's dealt with an eating disorder in the past. "[I've seen] a picture of me where I feel like I looked like my tummy was too big, or… someone said that I looked pregnant…and that’ll just trigger me to just starve a little bit — just stop eating," she says.

“I remember how, when I was 18, that was the first time I was on the cover of a magazine,” she told Variety in 2020. “And the headline was like ‘Pregnant at 18?’ And it was because I had worn something that made my lower stomach look not flat. So I just registered that as a punishment. And then...somebody who worked at a magazine would say, ‘Oh, wow, this is so amazing that you can fit into the sample sizes!’ [and] I looked at that as a pat on the head. You register that enough times, and you just start to accommodate everything towards praise and punishment, including your own body.”

I eagerly await the day we can all live life (and feel bloated) without the internet commenting on it.