Taylor Swift hosts baby shower for Jamie King

Singer Taylor Swift invited a string of friends, including Gigi Hadid, Jessica Alba and Alana Haim to celebrate her friend actress Jaime King's baby shower.

The "Blank space" hitmaker took time out from performing in Philadelphia over the weekend to return here to celebrate with her actress friend, who is expecting her second child with husband Kyle Newman, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Swift, who will be godmother to the unborn baby, took to Instagram to share a number of photographs from a photo booth from the party.

With one image, she posted: "Baby shower/ major throwdown for @jaime_king feat @gigihadid @babyhaim (sic)."

Other guests in attendance for the party included Hailee Steinfeld, Sarah Hyland, Selma Blair, Nina Dobrev, Emma Roberts and Alana's Haim bandmates.

King later thanked her friend for the "insanely beautiful" celebration.

Post the baby shower, she wrote on Instagram: "How can I put this into words? @taylorswift is not only going to be an exquisite godmother but one of the best friends one could ask for. Thank you Tay for throwing me such an insanely beautiful baby shower. Less then 12 hours after performing for 100k strong. I love you SO MUCH."