Shania Twain Says She Was ‘Ashamed’ of Being a Girl Because of Sexual Abuse by Her Stepfather
glamour.comsays she hid her womanhood to protect herself from a stepfather she alleges abused her. In an interview with , the said she was ashamed of being a girl due to her stepfather's physical and sexual abuse, "and so I hid myself and I would flatten my boobs," she said. “I would wear bras that were too small for me, and I’d wear two, play it down until there was nothing girl about me.
Make it easier to go unnoticed. Because, oh my gosh, it was terrible—you didn’t want to be a girl in my house,” Twain continued. “But 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 shitty to be a girl. Oh, it’s so shitty to have boobs.’ I was ashamed of being a girl.”Twain's elaborate stage costuming is as iconic as her music.
By her mid-twenties, Shania Twain said that she regained the confidence in being a woman that's so central to her music. She added that fashion helped her embrace her femininity, too. “I could speak and tell a story about myself, by the way I moved my body, the drape of the fabrics, the colors, where the focus was,” Twain said. “And I loved that about fashion, the fun of it, the expression.
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