Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Pole-dancing personal trainer transforms life after winning anorexia battle
mirror.co.ukA personal trainer who struggled with anorexia has transformed her life by focusing on pole dancing. Tash Turner was so unwell as a teenager that her weight plummeted to just six stone and she was told that she "could end up in a wheelchair" by the time she was 30.
It was only when she went to university and discovered pole dancing exercise classes that she said something just snapped in her brain and she began to eat again, reports Birmingham Live.
Previously, Tash had been very driven to be a high achiever in her sports and academic studies. She would arrive at school early, train during breaks and stay after school to improve her abilities in cross country, trampolining and rowing, eating the absolute minimum to get by.
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