Shania Twain has opened up about a deeply difficult time in her relationship with her body, revealing that she couldn’t bring herself to look in the mirror during her 2019 Las Vegas residency.
Speaking to London The timesthe 60-year-old singer described the experience with striking honesty.
“I stopped looking at myself in the mirror. I hated my body,” she said.
“I’m like, ‘Oh, I can’t stand this changing body.’ But it was so unhealthy. Who can’t look in the mirror? »
The physical demands of the residence forced her to adapt to methods that she now recognizes as harmful.
“I was working my body more than I was nourishing it to cope with the tension,” she admitted, saying it left her undernourished and ultimately led to an onstage injury.
Twain said she felt a loss of control she had never experienced before, unable to simply lose a few pounds as she once might have done.
“So all of a sudden I’m bloated and I’m definitely out of control. I can’t just lose five pounds.”
To achieve this, she turned to what she described as “very unhealthy things.”
The change in mentality, she said, is due to menopause and the acceptance it has brought.
“I’m like, ‘Bring on the mirrors. I’m going to look at myself all day!'” a phrase delivered with the kind of hard-earned confidence that has clearly been years in the making.
This isn’t the first time Twain has spoken so openly about his body image.
In an interview with Us every week in March 2025, she traced her insecurities to her youth, describing experiences of inappropriate touching and abuse that made her want to escape her own femininity altogether.
“I hated being a girl,” she said. “My mother says to me, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ and I said, “A bodybuilder.” I wanted to be a big, strong man that no one was going to fuck with. »
She also pointed to the thin culture that defined beauty standards during her formative years as a significant influence on how she viewed herself.
