Lifestyle Style This Is Why Taylor Swift Shared Her First Bikini (and Belly Button!) Photo on Instagram So this is why the singer shared a sexy bikini photo on Instagram By Brittany Talarico Brittany Talarico Brittany Talarico is PEOPLE's Deputy Style Director, where she oversees the brand's digital Style and Beauty coverage. This includes running lead on the Met Gala, which is among PEOPLE.com's top-trafficked red carpet events every year, interviewing the industry's top influencers (including all the Kardashian-Jenners), and breaking A-list celeb news (a New Jersey shore native, it is no surprise that her favorite interview ever was with Bruce Springsteen). Brittany is a style contributor to People Every Day Podcast and has represented the brand on national TV programs including Good Morning America and The CW's two TV specials on the British Royals. She joined PEOPLE from Cosmopolitan in 2013, where she was an Associate Editor. People Editorial Guidelines Published on February 25, 2015 04:27 PM Share Tweet Pin Email Remember that Taylor Swift bikini moment on her Hawaiian holiday with Haim? Of course you do, because it’s very rare to see a photo of the star’s belly button. Luckily, the singer just explained exactly why she and her close friends (Este, Danielle and Alana Haim) were so snap-happy in their bathing suits. Courtesy Taylor Swift At first, Swift and the Haim sisters didn’t plan on posting any swimsuit shots, but the paparazzi messed with their plans. “I have a camera that I really love and we were just taking pictures for fun. We spent this whole trip feeling like, ‘This is amazing. We’re so sly. There’s no paparazzi anywhere.’ And I’m always checking. I’m looking a mile away. It’s been ten years of this,” she told radio host Nick Grimshaw and her pal Ed Sheeran on Grimshaw Live. “I know how to hear the faint clicking sounds a mile away.” RELATED PHOTOS: The Sexiest Star Swimwear But then one day while the foursome were whale-watching (yes, they like to whale-watch), they noticed a photographer in the distance. “Basically, on the last day [of their vacation] we see a fishing boat a half a mile away,” Swift said. “We were like, ‘That’s a little weird. We’re in the middle of the ocean scuba diving.’ My security gets out binoculars and sees that they have a huge long-lens camera. At which point, we go back to the beach and we realize, ‘Okay, so they got pictures of us in our bikinis, like, I don’t want them to make like $100,000 for stalking us.’ So we’re like, ‘Get up on the bow of the boat. We’re taking better bikini shots, so they don’t make as much money on theirs.'” What do you think of Swift outsmarting the paps? Share your thoughts below. https://instagram.com/p/yN9dKRjvGk/?modal=true https://instagram.com/p/yN-vipDvIN/?modal=true https://instagram.com/p/yN_1-sjvKF/?modal=true –Brittany Talarico