Sabrina Carpenter Is Having a Cottage Girl Fall

The pop star was spotted petting a white horse in the countryside—and we think it’s a sweet nod to a certain someone’s upcoming album.

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Sabrina Carpenter is fully embracing the countryside life.

The Man’s Best Friend artist just dropped the dreamiest photo dump from what appears to be a cozy cabin escape, and we’re calling it now: she’s ushering in a full-on cottage girl fall.

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The cover pic was a casual mirror selfie, taken inside a wood-paneled condo with floral wallpaper. Carpenter wore a crisp white long-sleeve top with a structured boat neckline, asymmetrical drop-waist hem and micro-scalloped detailing along the cuffs and hem. She paired it with low-rise, light-wash, wide-leg jeans and accessorized with a red and white gingham bandana that pulled back her tousled blonde waves. The Pennsylvania native served the sweetest vintage vibes and showed off her signature pout.

The Grammy Award-winner, who swept the VMAs this month, kept her glam glowy and romantic, featuring a luminous base, feathery brows, a statement berry-toned lip and wispy brown lashes that made her blue eyes pop. A glossy burgundy French mani peeked through as she snapped the selfie with a butter-yellow phone case and a black purse tossed over her shoulder.

In the next slide, a bowl of vibrant cherry tomatoes sat beside fresh eggs—brown, white and speckled—on a wooden dining table. There’s nothing like some slow-living, farm-to-table goodness.

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Then came the real main character: a majestic white horse. The Disney Channel alum, still in the same outfit, was photographed outside petting the animal with her gaze locked on the camera.

Call us overthinkers, but we’re pretty sure it’s a sweet nod to Taylor Swift’s upcoming album The Life of a Showgirl, slated to drop Oct. 3. The white horse feels like a subtle reference to Swift’s 2008 hit “White Horse”—a song Carpenter famously covered as a kid. The two even performed it together onstage as a surprise song during one stop of The Eras Tour last year.

Intentional or not, the easter egg feels too perfect to ignore.

Sabrina Carpenter attends the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards in Elmont, New York in September 2025. / Bryan Bedder/Getty Images

Carpenter has been celebrating the success of her seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend, which dropped Aug. 29 and quickly became a streaming juggernaut. With viral hits like “Manchild,” “Tears” and “House Tour,” the record debuted at No. 1 and cemented her status as pop’s reigning cool girl. She also recently made headlines as a 2026 Coachella headliner and was just announced as the host and musical guest for Saturday Night Live this October.

But even with a packed schedule, she’s reminding everyone what she does best—serving looks, telling stories through imagery and keeping Instagram casual. Cottagecore never looked this glam.

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