Taylor Swift’s controversial revelation that she refuses to wash one part of her body when showering got people talking – including experts who can finally put our minds to rest.

It all began in 2019 when the singer sat down for an interview on The Ellen Show where the host, Ellen DeGeneres, asked her the question: “Do you wash your legs in the shower?”

Taylor then revealed that she does – but only when she shaves her legs.

Ellen then intervened, “Unless you’re not shaving… then you’re not washing.”

“No… I don’t think I would say that,” the pop icon hit back, to when Ellen chirped: “It seems like you did just say it!”

Her comments would become something that would come back to haunt her time and time again, having become an unlikely topic of online debate over the years.

However, maybe we can all get off Tay’s back as Dr Divya Shokeen, founder of Ocean, Skin and Vein Institute in California, has issued some potentially reassuring words.

Raj Punjabi and Noah Michelson, who are hosts of Huffington Post’s Am I Doing It Wrong? podcast, decided to quiz Dr Shokeen about showering.

At one point, the conversation specifically turned to the small matter of washing your legs while scrubbing down.

“I don’t think you do [need to wash them],” Dr Shokeen said. “Unless you’re, like, aggressively sweating and you just biked 20 miles. Then, yes, please wash your legs.

“I think water dripping down or soap dripping down [your legs] is OK [for cleansing].”

Dr Shokeen continued to claim it’s actually probably better not to manually wash the legs because we risk drying out or irritating the skin.

She also explained that, when washing other body parts where bacteria tend to flourish – the armpits, for example – it’s best to leave the soap to do its thing for at least a minute.

“Those need at least a minute to allow [your cleanser] to work,” she added.

“That doesn’t mean you have to be rubbing down there for a minute. If you have the time, then do it, but you can suds up [those areas] and leave it [while you wash other parts], so your cleanser has to have the chance to actually do something.”

There you go, Taylor, if it’s good enough for a doctor, it’s good enough for us!

Did you know that Taylor Swift purposely didn’t show her belly button until 2015? We wondered why too…

The mystery surrounding the popstar’s belly button continues to intrigue Swifties worldwide, as she’s often tried to avoid showing it in her shows, causing conversation and speculation.

To this day, it still remains a legendary, lighthearted mystery that continues to bewilder the world of pop culture.

Here’s what we have gathered so far and the real reason Tay said she didn’t show her belly button until 2014.

Taylor bared her belly button for the world to see on Instagram in 2015, which exploded on Reddit, prompting users to generate a series of memes based on her pose and raised the question of whether she’d shown it off before.

One user on Reddit stated that until 2014, Taylor never showed her belly button – it was always those midriff-baring tops in the 1989 era.

“Because there was so much hype around seeing her belly button, such that a paparazzi photo of her in a bikini could go for a lot of money, Taylor decided to pose for a photo showing her belly button (with a fan) to normalise it,” the user wrote.

Other users debated that Tay had actually shown her belly button years prior to this in music videos when she was younger.

“I was just watching I‘m Only Me When I’m With You and voilà, there it is!” they wrote.

“Smh this mystery could have been solved long ago.”

Taylor herself then revealed to Lucky Magazine the real reason why nobody saw her belly button.

“I don’t like showing my belly button. When you start showing your belly button then you’re really committing to the midriff thing,” she confessed.

“I only partially commit to the midriff thing – you’re only seeing lower rib cage. I don’t want people to know if I have one or not. I want that to be a mystery,”

“As far as anyone knows based on my public appearances, they haven’t seen evidence of a belly button. It could be pierced. They have no idea. If I’m going to get some sort of massive tattoo, it’s going to be right next to my belly button because no one’s ever going to see that.”

Ever since Taylor Swift went public with her latest romance, fans have been swooning. It seems they’re not alone, with her boyfriend’s mum joining in.

Taylor confirmed her relationship with NFL star Travis Kelce back in September last year, and it’s been an abundance of cute moments ever since.

I mean, who could forget Taylor celebrating with Travis following the Kansas City Chiefs’ win at the Super Bowl?

And now, fans have even more reason to fall in love with Travlor… or is it Tayvis?

Following the drop of her surprise double-album The Tortured Poets Department on April 19, fans have been passionately decoding the 31 songs for references to Taylor’s relationships both past and present.

While it’s now widely assumed many of the songs make reference to her short-lived romance with frontman of The 1975’s Matty Healy, listeners also think many of them are inspired by her relationship with Travis.

Songs featured on TTPD that Swifties think Travis inspired include ‘The Alchemy’, in which Taylor sings: “Shirts off, and your friends lift you up, over their heads / Beer stickin’ to the floor, cheers chanted ’cause they said / ‘There was no chance trying to be the greatest in the league’ / Where’s the trophy? He just comes, running over to me.”

This is an apparent nod to the celebration on the field.

The second track is ‘So High School’.

An unearthed clip of a younger Travis in 2016 has taken the internet by storm recently – in which he’s asked who he would kiss, marry or kill between Taylor herself, Katy Perry and Ariana Grande. FYI – he chose to kiss Taylor.

The song features the lyric: “Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me (Kill me) / It’s just a game, but really (Really) / I’m bettin’ on all three for us two (All three).”

While there’s no shortage of Swifties in the world – it now appears Travis’ mum, Donna Kelce, has joined the force.

Donna has spoken out about the album, telling People: “I listened to the whole album, and I listened to it all morning long when it was released.

“I was just very impressed. She is a very talented woman, and I think it is probably her best work.”

As for whether she thinks her son is the inspiration behind some of the songs?

Donna told US weekly at QVC’s The Age of Possibility summit in Las Vegas: “I know there are a few [songs] that some people think are about Travis but we’ll just see.”

She added: “You know, I’ll have to ask her when I see her.”

What a flex.

We thought celebrities would know better about opening up about their less-than-common hygiene habits by now, but Kate Hudson has proven that’s very much not the case.

Who could forget that fateful day in 2021 when actor Jake Gyllenhaal admitted to Vanity Fair: “More and more I find bathing to be less necessary.

“I do also think that there’s a whole world of not bathing that is also really helpful for skin maintenance, and we naturally clean ourselves.”

Something was clearly in the water (or lack of…) in 2021, because married couple Mila Kunis, 40, and Ashton Kutcher, 46, appeared on Dax Shephard’s Armchair Expert podcast.

Mila admitted: “I don’t wash my body with soap every day. But I wash pits and t**s and holes and soles.”

Ashton then chimed in to reveal that more often than not, he uses water on his ‘armpits and crotch’ and ‘nothing else’.

The practice is also used on their children, with Mila adding: “When I had children, I also didn’t wash them every day. I wasn’t the parent that bathed my newborns – ever.”

The latest celebrity to air their dirty laundry is actress Kate Hudson, 45 – who also brought her How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days co-star, Matthew McConaughey, down with her.

Appearing on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen last week, Kate was asked: “Was that old urban legend true that you forced Matthew McConaughey to wear deodorant while filming Fool’s Gold?”

Kate responded: “No. He doesn’t wear deodorant,” she explained. “And by the way, I don’t either.

“My thing was, I could smell him from – because we were so close! He’s, you know, we’re au naturale.”

So, it seems it’s about time for doctors and dermatologists to step in and clear up whether or not us lot, the Average Joe’s, are wasting our time with deodorant.

Enter Dr. Nina Botto, an associate professor of dermatology at the University of California, who is having her say.

She told CNN: “People have strong preferences and sensitivities to smell.

“People, from the beginning of time, have used perfumes [or] colognes to mask odor, but it’s not like flossing your teeth, where there’s data that you’re actually going to live longer if you floss your teeth regularly.”

As for what we should do if we sweat a lot, Dr. Joshua Zeichner, an associate professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital guided people to use antiperspirants at night: “Since we make less sweat at night, they can more effectively form a plug within the sweat gland if you apply them before bed.”

Echoing a similar sentiment, Dr. Julie Russak, a board-certified dermatologist and founder of Russak Dermatology Clinic, said that if you’re not an excessive sweater, using deodorant is ‘probably not’ a good idea. She added: “By blocking [sweat production] completely, you are risking paradoxical increase of sweat production in other areas.”

So there you have it – maybe the celebs are right after all… but we’d advise treading carefully, especially if you have to undergo a morning commute.

From haircare routines and skincare regimes all the way through to cleaning habits – it’s clear we all have very differing ways to groom ourselves.

And it’s clear that celebrities are of no exception, with Taylor Swift refusing to wash one part of her body when showering.

Now, we already know that a number of Hollywood’s finest have some pretty questionable grooming styles, including James Corden’s controversial showering habit that experts say you should definitely not follow, Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey’s controversial hygiene habit which is apparently super bad for you according to a doctor and, of course, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’ bizarre rules when it comes to washing.

But, it seems the Eras Tour star’s shower routine has created quite the divide amidst fans, with some branding it downright grim, while others reckoned she had a fair enough reason.

It all started a few years back in 2019, the 34-year-old ‘Cruel Summer’ singer sat down for an interview on the The Ellen Show where the host, Ellen DeGeneres, asked her the simple yet slightly odd question: “Do you wash your legs in the shower?”

Taylor then revealed that she does – but only when she shaves her legs.

“I do, because when you shave your legs, the shaving cream is like soap, right?”

The talk show host then agreed: “Yeah, it is.

“I think that’s the reason that most women wash their legs-because we have to, because we shave our legs.”

A relieved Taylor continued: “So that counts? Good. I’m on the right side of history, then.”

Ellen piped up: “Unless you’re not shaving… then you’re not washing.”

“No… I don’t think I would say that,” the pop icon hit back, to which Ellen chirped: “It seems like you did just say it!”

Taylor explained: “But, I kind of always shave my legs,” to which Ellen ended the whole ordeal with some much-needed comic relied: “God, you must be hairy!”

Fans couldn’t wait to share their reactions to the exchange on social media with one X user writing: “How the hell do u not wash ur legs in the shower??? Huh?? U just stop after ur butt and that’s it??

“Taylor Swift said she don’t wash her legs but she shaves them girl that is not the same thing wtf.”

Another slammed: “I’m confused isn’t the shower supposed to be the place where you wash EVERYTHING?!”

And a final X user echoed: “What do you mean does she wash her legs?? Don’t you wash your legs when you shower? Like, washing your legs is part of showering. Is it not to some people?”