Shania Twain Reveals Why She Did A Nude Photo Shoot ‘With Just Mud’ For New Album Cover

One of the photos of Shania Twain included with her album Queen of Me shows the vocalist covered successful mud, portion naked. The “Man! I Feel Like A Woman” star, 57, had a cleanable effect erstwhile asked wherefore she decided to see the photograph with the caller record, portion speaking to TalkShopLive. The vocalist revealed that she opted to bash the photoshoot, due to the fact that she hadn’t gotten a accidental to bash 1 earlier successful her career. “I didn’t bash it erstwhile I was younger truthful I’m going to bash it now,” she said.

Besides making up for mislaid time, Shania besides explained that she was looking to amusement however assured she was, fitting with the “self-empowerment” taxable of the record. “I’m going to consciousness and amusement that I consciousness comfy successful my ain skin,” she said. “Queen of Me is each astir being the brag of myself. And taking work for what I enactment retired there, what I project. And my truth, arsenic I get older, which I privation I had this information erstwhile I was younger, is conscionable to consciousness much — little apologetic for however I am, however I look, little affected by different people’s criticism.”

Shania opened up astir feeling empowered connected her caller medium ‘Queen of Me.’ (S Meddle/ITV/Shutterstock)

Shania opened up astir being insecure erstwhile she was younger and she admitted that she would adjacent beryllium insecure wearing a bikini, but now, she says “the heck with that,” and intelligibly enjoyed the photoshoot. “I didn’t bash it erstwhile I was younger truthful I’m going to bash it now. I’m going to consciousness and amusement that I consciousness comfy successful my ain skin. So what I did was, I did a photograph league bare with conscionable mud,” she said.

The state icon besides got into she came up with the rubric of the record, aft earning the nicknames similar “Queen of Country  Pop” oregon the “Queen of Crossover” passim her career. “Over the years different artists oregon journalists person utilized the connection ‘Queen,'” she said. “Coming into my ain tegument truthful overmuch much with age, and I truly similar it. Feeling much ownership of my ain self-worth, [and] self-empowerment. So I thought, if I’m [the] queen of anything, I’m ‘Queen of Me.'”

Besides going nude for her caller album, Shania has shown disconnected tons of astonishing looks successful caller years, adjacent giving a motion to her “Man! I Feel Like A Woman” dress implicit 20 years aboriginal successful April 2021. She rocked a beauteous achromatic dress portion attending the ACM Awards backmost successful August. The mud photoshoot wasn’t the lone clip that Shania has stripped down connected this medium cycle. She besides went topless successful the euphony video for the single “Waking Up Dreaming,” which she dropped successful September.

Queen of Me will beryllium released connected February 23, 2023.