Purr-fect pets! Taylor Swift, Kate Beckinsale and more of Hollywood’s biggest stars have one serious obsession with their furry feline friends.
The “Lover” singer has never been shy about her love for her pets, Meredith Grey and Olivia Benson, named after some of her favorite fictional characters. While speaking with TIME in April 2019, the Grammy winner admitted that the “most influential factor” in her life is her cuddly kittens. “I have cats. I’m obsessed with them,” she said at the time. “They’re just a real joy to live with. I love my cats so much that when a role came up in a movie called Cats, I just thought, ‘I’ve got to do this.’”
Though the 2019 movie adaptation of the famous Broadway musical didn’t make a major splash with viewers, Swift teased that working on the film was her “calling in life” and said she jumped at the opportunity to learn “how to be as much like a cat as I possibly could” with her costars.
Later that month, the Nashville native opened up about how she came to adopt her third cat, Benjamin Button, on the set of a music video. “[They] handed me this tiny cat and he just starts purring and … he looks at me like, ‘You’re my mom, and we’re going to live together.’ I fell in love. I looked at Brendon [Urie] and he’s like, ‘You’re going to get the cat aren’t you?’” she said during an Instagram Live.
Despite their past “Bad Blood,” Swift’s obsession with kittens is one thing she has in common with fellow cat lover Katy Perry. The “I Kissed a Girl” singer confirmed in April that her darling pet Kitty Purry had passed away.
“Kitty Purry crawled through my then-boyfriend’s window 15 years ago, fully pregnant and seeking shelter,” Perry wrote via Instagram at the time. “Kitty, thanks for the cuddles and companionship along the way. Big thanks to my brother David and @garethwalters for being great co-parents. #kittypurryforever.”
Scroll down to see more celebs who go crazy for their kittens.
Purr-fect pets! Taylor Swift, Kate Beckinsale and more of Hollywood’s biggest stars have one serious obsession with their furry feline friends.
The “Lover” singer has never been shy about her love for her pets, Meredith Grey and Olivia Benson, named after some of her favorite fictional characters. While speaking with TIME in April 2019, the Grammy winner admitted that the “most influential factor” in her life is her cuddly kittens. “I have cats. I’m obsessed with them,” she said at the time. “They’re just a real joy to live with. I love my cats so much that when a role came up in a movie called Cats, I just thought, ‘I’ve got to do this.’”
Though the 2019 movie adaptation of the famous Broadway musical didn’t make a major splash with viewers, Swift teased that working on the film was her “calling in life” and said she jumped at the opportunity to learn “how to be as much like a cat as I possibly could” with her costars.
Later that month, the Nashville native opened up about how she came to adopt her third cat, Benjamin Button, on the set of a music video. “[They] handed me this tiny cat and he just starts purring and … he looks at me like, ‘You’re my mom, and we’re going to live together.’ I fell in love. I looked at Brendon [Urie] and he’s like, ‘You’re going to get the cat aren’t you?’” she said during an Instagram Live.
Despite their past “Bad Blood,” Swift’s obsession with kittens is one thing she has in common with fellow cat lover Katy Perry. The “I Kissed a Girl” singer confirmed in April that her darling pet Kitty Purry had passed away.
“Kitty Purry crawled through my then-boyfriend’s window 15 years ago, fully pregnant and seeking shelter,” Perry wrote via Instagram at the time. “Kitty, thanks for the cuddles and companionship along the way. Big thanks to my brother David and @garethwalters for being great co-parents. #kittypurryforever.”
Scroll down to see more celebs who go crazy for their kittens.
Jennifer Lopez
“Introducing … #Hendrix!!!! ?⬛ ?,” the Hustlers actress captioned an Instagram video of her new pet lounging beside her holiday decorations in December 2021.
Mark Ruffalo
On National Cat Day, the Avengers star showed his appreciation for his felines with a gallery of photos. “Cats for days, all ways,” he captioned the purr-fect snapshots he shared in October 2021.
Elisabeth Moss
“Watch Ethel and I on @fallontonight to see me catch up with my friend the always funny and so lovely @jimmyfallon!! and see an exclusive clip from the first episode I directed for the new season of The Handmaids Tale ?,” the actress captioned a photo of her and her furry friend via Instagram in April 2021.
Jonathan Van Ness
After the Queer Eye personality mourned the loss of beloved pet Bug in 2019, he adopted two “new additions” to his feline family, introducing them via Instagram while wearing a “Kitten Lady” sweatshirt.
Kate Beckinsale
The Van Helsing star’s grumpy feline friends, Clive and Willow, have stolen the show in countless social media posts — especially during the coronavirus pandemic in the spring of 2020.
Martha Stewart
“Princess peony and empress tang are going stir crazy,” the lifestyle guru wrote via Instagram in April 2020 as her furry friends adjusted to their crowded coronavirus quarantine house. “There are people all over the place, namely me and Ryan, who usually are not here all the time . I am being followed .Cajoled .Bothered. Meowed at. Swatted at!! Oh my ! All I can say is sorry.”
Katy Perry
“Heaven is a place on earth,” the “Roar” singer captioned an Instagram post in 2014. Six years later, she mourned the loss of her beloved pet, Kitty Purry. “Sadly, Kitty completed her 9th life last night,” Perry wrote in April 2020. “I hope she rests in salmon fillets and tuna tartare way up in catnip heaven. Kitty, thanks for the cuddles and companionship along the way. Big thanks to my brother David and @garethwalters for being great co-parents ? #kittypurryforever.”
Kat Dennings
Dennings has a whole lot of love for her own cat, Millie, and worked hard to flip the “cat lady” stereotype on its head in Hulu’s Dollface — even if she possesses some of those characteristics herself. “I am the person who just does not want to go out,” she told Nylon in November 2019. “I just want to stay home and like, play with my cat.”
Isla Fischer
The Tag actress shared this shot of her tabby cat in August 2018, one day after National Dog Day, remarking that cats “deserve” their own day because they “were worshipped in Ancient Egypt” and “cleaner than dogs.”
Alison Brie
The Community alum’s husband, Dave Franco, was relieved to discover that Brie was as much of a cat lover as he was before they tied the knot in March 2017. “She was really the only option [for marriage],” the 21 Jump Street actor teased during a September 2017 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Ricky Gervais
The British comedian and animal rights activist loves to share snaps of his cat, Ollie, on social media. “Have a great day,” he captioned this silly selfie of the duo on Instagram in March 2017.
Miley Cyrus
Can’t be tamed! Cyrus has loads of pets including multiple cats and dogs, fish and even a pig.
Lea Michele
Michele has called her kitty Sheila, who she found while filming Glee, “the love of my life.”
Ellie Goulding
Starry eyed! The singer posed with a precious ball of fuzz for this adorable Instagram shot.
Bella Thorne
Thorne says her cats, Louis and Lola, can sense when she’s upset. “If I’m, like, crying or something, they’ll come up to me and they’ll just, like, snuggle me cause they know I’m having a bad day,” The Babysitter star told Us in March 2016. “That makes me feel so much better because, you know, then for a second I’m just thinking about them and what they want and not me and what I’m going through.”
Kesha
“My babies haven’t left my side,” the singer shared on Instagram in 2016. “Animals literally make EVERYTHING better.”
Ed Sheeran
“So basically this one month old kitten was gonna get put down,” the “Shape of You” singer tweeted in 2014. “So I adopted him and called him Graham. Just bought Graham a bed and snacks.”
Taylor Swift
The singer documents the lives of her two adorable furballs, Doctor Meredith Grey (named after the Grey’s Anatomy lead character, played by Ellen Pompeo) and Detective Olivia Benson (named after Mariska Hargitay‘s character on Law & Order: SVU), on her Instagram. On the Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2014, Swift revealed that she nicknamed Olivia, the younger of her two felines, Dibbles. “It suits her personality more,” she explained. “She’s like a scrappy little cat.”
