How Shania Twain Found Her Femininity
"I Wasn't Blessed With Prettiness," She Says
Even though she seems like such a natural beauty, Shania Twain claims that beauty didn’t come naturally to her.
In a story she wrote for the October issue of InStyle, Twain says she wasn’t blessed with prettiness when she was growing up.
It wasn’t until after high school, when she started fronting bands,
that she got the message that she should kind of glam things up. She
even had dancers give her high-heel-walking lessons.
“How am I ever going to sing and wear high heels at the same time?”
Twain said she asked herself. “I got into the groove of it and started
to love it.
“Since I was such a late bloomer, I think I liked the indulgence of
getting dressed up. It was a new playground for me — picking the
fabrics, colors, and images was a very creative process. It wasn’t just
about what to wear to go out on a Friday night. It was about becoming an
artist.”
As Twain preps for her 2018 tour, she’s doing so mentally and
physically. She said she is playing tennis, meditating, walking and
eating well. And when she does take the stage, expect to see her in the
threads that made her the style icon she is.
“I’ve also got some new cat suits for hitting the stage! They’re so comfortable, like pajamas,” she said.
As for the new album Now, out later this month, Twain says part of
the excitement is being able to share everything she has been through.
“The journey has been lifelong. There were many layers that had built
up to this bottle neck, and in reviewing my whole life, which I did
through writing my autobiography, I was taken back to the very
beginning. It made me realize, ‘Wow, my divorce is actually not the
worst thing that’s ever happened to me.’
“Songwriting is my psychiatry session,” she said.
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