Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989 in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Taylor Swift’s mom, Andrea, and dad, Scott, named their first child Taylor because they planned for her to work as a stockbroker. Andrea chose a gender-neutral name because when Taylor grew up and applied for a job no one would know if she were a woman or man. This helped because the finance industry was a male- dominated profession. Taylor Swift’s parents wanted her to become a stockbroker because both Andrea and Scott were in the finance business. When Taylor Swift was a child she lived on an 11-acre Christmas- tree farm where Taylor Swift could run free and let her imagination run wild. Andrea gave birth to Taylor Swift’s younger brother Austin on March
