Photo: Getty Images
Taylor Swift is the queen of gift giving.
On the March 3 episode of her husband Benny Blanco's Friends Keep Secrets podcast, Selena Gomez recalled "the sweetest gift" the Life of a Showgirl musician gave her for her 30th birthday in 2022, a handcrafted piece of artwork with a meaningful connection for the longtime friends, per E! News.
"She painted a beautiful lake," she said. "It was at night and the moon was there. In the stars, she painted our exact star signs."
Gomez added that Swift had hand-stitched a message on the canvas, "[sewing] every letter" of the note that read, "Here's to the next 30 years."
Her husband, whom she married in September 2025, also praised the artwork and its creator, telling his co-hosts Dave Burd, a.k.a. Lil Dicky, and his wife Kristin Batalucco that he even thought the painting was made by Jean-Michel Basquiat.
"It's like one of the best paintings I've ever seen," Blanco said. "She's better at art."
The gift was just one thoughtful gesture Gomez revealed in the episode that her bestie has surprised her with over the years. Elsewhere in the conversation, the Rare Beauty founder explained that Swift's song "Dorothea," from her 2020 album Evermore, was actually written about Gomez.
"And I feel like a lot of moments — huge moments that were self-defining from relationships to family to love to hate, all of it between, we were figuring it out because I was 15 and she was 18, and we didn't really know what was going on," she said. "And so we've never seen each other any differently. So when I listen to it, I'm so impressed how it's eloquently put."