Shania Twain Says Nude Album Shoot Was A Way To ‘Start Loving Myself’ After Being Abused By Stepfather

When shooting the artwork for Queen Of Me, Shania Twain shed more than conscionable her clothes. She ditched her fearfulness and the trauma of increasing up successful an abusive household. “I did a full sprout arsenic portion of the medium artwork wherever I’m wholly nude. And it was precise — it was truly scary,” Shania, 57, said erstwhile sitting down with Hoda Kotb during the Thursday (Jan. 5) occurrence of the TODAY show. “Doing the nude photography, it’s truly astir saying, ‘I was abused arsenic a kid.'”

“My stepfather would fondle maine up connected the apical and marque maine spell without a shirt, and I was already maturing,” continued Shania. “This cringy horrible wanting to flight being successful my ain skin. I’m conscionable successful a infinitesimal present erstwhile I’m blessed successful my ain skin – it’s the lone tegument I person truthful I don’t person a prime – otherwise, I’m going to hatred myself for the remainder of my life. It’s clip to commencement loving myself successful my ain tegument and truly embracing that and not being embarrassed by it oregon shy [about] it. This is who I am.”

Shania has been unfastened astir her abusive past. In 2011, she recalled seeing her stepfather, Jerry Twain, plunge her mother’s caput into a toiler. “I thought he’d killed her,” Twain said, per ABC News. “I truly thought she was drowned, oregon dead, oregon that helium had conscionable smashed her caput successful and she was ne'er going to aftermath up.” Shania besides elaborate the intersexual astir in an interrogation with The Sunday Times, saying she would “flatten my boobs” to debar drafting her stepfather’s attention.

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“[I’d] deterioration bras that were excessively tiny for me, and I’d deterioration two, play it down until determination was thing miss astir me,” she said. “Make it easier to spell unnoticed. I hid myself. Because, ohio my gosh, it was unspeakable – you didn’t privation to beryllium a miss successful my house.”

Earlier successful the TODAY interview, Shania spoke astir however she posed nude for the Queen of Me artwork, including the creation for her “Waking Up Dreaming” single. “I don’t truly emotion my body,” she said. “I don’t emotion looking astatine myself successful the reflector with the lights connected oregon looking successful the reflector astatine each astatine my body. So I said, ‘listen, I’m going to look that fear.’ I’m going spell into that photoshoot and I’m going to enactment manner speech … It was truthful empowering.”

“I’m truthful gladsome I did it. I was petrified, but erstwhile I flicked that power and dove into it, I’m like, ‘I’m each in.’ I committed 100 percent,” continued Twain. “And I wasn’t reasoning astir what anybody thought. I didn’t deliberation astir who was successful the room. This is astir me. This is my infinitesimal to truly clasp myself successful susceptible moments. “It had to beryllium vulnerable, wherever I felt that I was facing a fearfulness of being judged, oregon being possibly adjacent laughed at, astatine being embarrassed. But it was lone empowering. It was truly fabulous.”

Shania’s Queen Of Me is retired connected Feb. 3, 2023.

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