Shania Twain wanted to be a bodybuilder after being ‘touched inappropriately so many times’ as a kid: ‘Hated being a girl’

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Us Weekly published Wednesday.“I was always insecure about my body,” she said. “As a female, throughout my youth [I was] touched inappropriately so many times [and] I was in abusive situations where you hate being a woman.

I hated being a girl.”The “Any Man of Mine” singer recalled that when she was younger she told her mom her career goal.“My mother goes, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ and I said, ‘A bodybuilder.'” “I wanted to be a big, strong man that nobody was going to f–k around with,” she said. “No one was going to touch my arm or my ass or anything unless I was OK with it.”Twain continued, “I was hiding all through my teens.

I hated having boobs, I hated having hips. I think a lot of that was also because a lot of the models when I was a kid were very, very thin.

That was a sign of elegance and feminine beauty to me.”The Grammy Award winner has alleged that she suffered sexual abuse from her stepfather as a child.In her 2022 Netflix documentary, “Not Just a Girl,” Twain discussed her upbringing and home as “violent,” and recalled that at times she lacked food and electricity, and in her 20s, she lost her mother and stepfather, forcing her to step into a parenting role for her siblings.“I hid myself, and I would flatten my boobs.