Country songstress Taylor Swift has rubbished her "clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend" reputation.

The 'I Knew You Were Trouble' star has opened up about her much-speculated personal life in the latest edition of Vanity Fair, revealing: “If you want some big revelation, since 2010 I have dated exactly two people,” referring to Conor Kennedy and One Direction heartthrob Harry Styles.

Swift famously pens her hit songs based on her relationship experiences, but doesn't understand why she has acquired such a label.

She explained: “For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that’s taking something that potentially should be celebrated.

She added: “A woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way - that’s taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.”

Rumours were circulating at the time of dating Kennedy that Swift was looking at buying a house close to her beau.

The songstress chooses to ignore such tabloid reports, admitting: “If there’s a pregnancy rumour, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumour, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.”

Watch Swift perform at the BRIT Awards last month below: