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Shania Twain, 57, simply bravely opened up about how she handled the trauma of alleged bodily and sexual abuse by the hands of her stepfather. The nation songstress detailed her expertise with The Sunday Times revealed on Dec. 6, and throughout the chat she admitted to making an attempt to flatten her chest to keep away from his consideration.
“I hid myself and I would flatten my boobs,” Shania confessed. “Because, oh my gosh, it was terrible — you didn’t want to be a girl in my house.”
The “That Don’t Impress Me Much” singer was raised by her mom Sharon and stepfather Jerry Twain, who legally adopted her and her 4 siblings. She’s detailed their tough upbringing within the Ontario, Canada space many instances earlier than.
Shania had a variety of methods. “I would wear bras that were too small for me,” she revealed. “And I’d wear two, play it down until there was nothing girl about me. Make it easier to go unnoticed.”
Having to cover her physique to guard herself was complicated for Shania as she grew right into a younger girl. She defined, “…Then you go into society and you’re a girl and you’re getting the normal other unpleasant stuff too, and that reinforces it. So then you think, ‘Oh, I guess it’s just s***** to be a girl. Oh, it’s so s***** to have boobs.’ I was ashamed of being a girl.”
As the star bought older, she got here into her personal and realized to embrace her femininity. “All of a sudden it was like, ‘Well, what’s your problem? You know, you’re a woman and you have this beautiful body,’” the “Man! I Feel Like A Woman” hitmaker instructed the Times of her early days of fame. “What was so natural for other people was so scary for me. I felt exploited, but I didn’t have a choice now.”
For Shania, it grew to become an element. “I had to play the glamorous singer, had to wear my femininity more openly or more freely,” she stated. “And work out how I’m not gonna get groped, or r**** by someone’s eyes, you know, and feel so degraded.”