Taylor Swift Reveals What She Thinks About Raising Kids In New Comments After Travis Kelce Wedding

Taylor Swift addresses parenting after marrying Travis Kelce© Instagram/ @killatrav

Taylor Swift rarely discusses raising children, so her latest comments turned heads. Four months after marrying Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden, she spoke to HELLO! about iPads and parenting while promoting "I Knew It I Knew You" from Toy Story 5. The song has made her the Best Original Song frontrunner. She will also perform at the Country Music Awards on Nov. 18, her first appearance there in 13 years.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: the parenting question fans keep asking

Swift and Kelce married on July 3, and fans have wondered since then when they might start a family. She did not answer that here. Instead, she spoke as a friend and observer. Her pals with young kids have been seeing the film, partly for advice.

"I have so many friends who've gone to see this film because they have a young child and they don't really know what to do about the whole iPad thing," Taylor told HELLO! during a recent press conference.

She did not claim to have the answers. "We don't have all the information yet on what we should do or shouldn't do, and it's really a parent-to-parent decision," the 36-year-old continued.

"So I think that a lot of parents go in there and they're like, 'I wonder if Toy Story's figured out how we should handle technology?'

"And I think that the way [the director and writers] approached this and handled it, they've done such a beautiful job of emphasizing that - they're not heavy-handed about it."

She also said "there's no bad guy" when it comes to technology. The film, she said, "really does emphasize trying to elongate childhoods, trying to make space and room for imagination, and I think that's just a wonderful thing for them to have chosen as a message in this."

Kelce has been a steady presence in her public life. The two met in 2023, and on Nov. 8 she watched his Chiefs face the Jets from a suite at Arrowhead Stadium. Karlie Kloss joined her there, a sign that an old friendship is warming up again.

Taylor Swift's Oscar push for Toy Story 5

Swift co-wrote the song with Jack Antonoff. In the film, Jesse visits the home of her former owner, Emily, where a new family now lives. Swift said the scene reminded her that some friendships are special even if they last only a season.

"You may feel, 'oh, that friend I had, that was really a special time, and even though I don't know that person anymore, I hope they're doing great,' or feeling like you could count on your friends to be there when you needed them; feeling like you don't need to have a million of the wrong friends," she said.

The project gave her a break from her usual style. "There is a pressure release valve of not having to write about my personal life and being able to absorb myself in a story that I've been watching unfold since I was five," she says of the Pixar franchise, which began in 1995.

Her bond with the song keeps growing. "It feels really cozy to me to hear it and to sing it. Like I never know how I'm going to experience a song, the longer it's out in the world. But I feel like I relate to this song even more every time I hear it and every time I sing it, and it makes me feel kind of comforted… calm about life, about friendship, about lessons, about things falling into their right place."

Swift signed her first record deal at 13. Now, with Kelce cheering from the stands, she is chasing her first Oscar.