Shania Twain is opening up about her previous struggles with her body image and weight. Twain said that she used to do unhealthy things to maintain her figure.
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Speaking with The Times, the country artist opened up about her struggles. She said in 2019 during her Las Vegas residency, she struggled with the person she saw in the mirror.
"I stopped looking at myself in the mirror. I hated my body," she said. "I'm, like, 'Oh, I cannot stand this changing body.' But that was so unhealthy. Who cannot look at themselves in the mirror?"
Twain became obsessed with age and its effects on her body. She said that she suffered bloating.
"So all of a sudden I'm bloating, and I'm definitely not in control. I can't just lose five pounds," she recalled. "I was doing very unhealthy things. And I was working my body more than I was feeding it to keep up with the strain."
Shania Twain Talks Struggles
However, the desire to be skinny led to her becoming malnourished instead.
"Now I'm like, bring on the mirrors, I'm going to look at myself all day long!" she said. "Menopause has been very good for me because I've learned that some things you cannot control."
Ultimately, she's accepting of her body and even posed without clothes on her sixth studio album.
"I used to hate my body. So when my body was young and, I guess, maybe one wouldn't be afraid of exhibiting it, I was hiding it a lot," she said. "I think I needed to capture where I am right now, because it's a moment that I want to remember. I'm perfectly the way I should be. This is the way I should be at my age. I'm fine with it. And I'm not afraid of it anymore. It's all good."
Twain added, "I think menopause was a very good thing for me because there were a lot more things changing in everything about me physically that I had to very quickly come to terms with. Menopause taught me to quickly say, 'You know, it may only get worse. So just love yourself now. Just get over your insecurities — they're standing in your way. And fear is standing in your way.' "
