Americans were left puzzled over Cara Delevingne’s description of Taylor Swift.
The model, 32, opened up about her relationship with the singer, 34, while speaking to Interview Magazine recently.
Cara revealed that the Cruel Summer songstress let her ‘live with her’ after she went through a ‘really horrible breakup,’ adding that she ‘looked after her so well.’
But when she gushed that her friend was ‘homely,’ many people across the web were left scratching their heads.
While homely is defined as ‘unattractive in appearance’ in the US, the term actually means something completely different in the UK.
In England, where Cara is from, the definition is ‘simple but cozy and comfortable, as in one’s own home.’
But people all across the web thought Cara had called her friend ugly, and they took to X, formerly Twitter, to share their thoughts.
‘I was going through a really horrible breakup, and she let me live with her,’ Cara explained.
Americans were left puzzled over Cara Delevingne ‘s description of Taylor Swift
The model, 32, opened up about her relationship with the singer , 34, while speaking to Interview Magazine recently, and she called the hitmaker ‘homely’
‘We’re very different people. She’s very homely, because she looked after me so well, but we got into some – not trouble, but I definitely took her for a bit of a wild ride.’
‘Cara, homely means something different than you think,’ one person wrote on X afterwards.
‘I assume Cara didn’t actually call Taylor homely?’ someone else questioned.
‘She’s homely? Cara please,’ another user added.
‘”She’s very homely,” girl I think that means something else,’ a fourth comment read.
A fifth said, ‘Not Cara forgetting that homely means something very different in America.’
‘The British use that term to describe the same thing as homey, we think ugly but they just mean “like home, safe, cozy,”‘ someone explained.
‘I always forget this means something different in the US,’ another stated.
While homely is defined as ‘unattractive in appearance,’ in the US, the term actually means something completely different in the UK
But people all across the web thought Cara had called her friend ugly, and they took to X, formerly Twitter, to share their thoughts
During the interview, Cara went on to describe Taylor as ‘one of the funniest, most clever people.’
Back in May, Taylor supported Cara by attending her play Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse Theatre in London.
And in January, Cara attended a Kansas City Chiefs game in Buffalo, New York, where with the hitmaker, who cheered on her boyfriend, Travis Kelce.
‘I’m so, so happy for her,’ Cara told E! News in 2023 when asked about Taylor dating the athlete. ‘There’s definitely something very different about them. I’m always rooting for my girl.’