Canadian country-pop legend Shania Twain, in the art for her upcoming single “Waking Up Dreaming,” the five-time Grammy winner decided to pose topless, and says she’s never felt more comfortable in her skin.
“This is me expressing my truth. I’m comfortable in my own skin, and this is the way I am sharing that confidence,” Twain, whose next album, Queen of Me, is due in February, says.
The megastar told People magazine, “I think the best fashion is confidence, and whatever you wear—if you’re wearing it with that, it’s fashionable. I am a woman in my late 50s, and I don’t need to hide behind the clothes. I can’t even tell you how good it felt to do nude shooting. I was just so unashamed of my new body, you know, as a woman that is well into my menopause. I’m not even emotional about it; I just feel okay about it. It’s really liberating.”
“From the very beginning—the very first video—I was ditching the bra,” she stated in the same interview. “But I was a lot firmer then, so as I grew older, I started feeling a different pressure of, ‘Well, your breasts are not as plump as they used to be. Your skin is not as tight as it used to be. Maybe you should start covering it up a little bit more.’”
But the singer said she hit this wall and was like, “Whoa, my confidence is regressing. My courage is dulling. Why am I allowing this? Frig that. I am not regressing. I am embracing my body as it changes, as I should have from my childhood to my teens, as I should be from my taut, 20s and 30-year-old self, to my menopausal body. I’m not going to be shy about it. I want to be courageous about it, and I want to share that courage in the artwork that I am directing.”
