Shania Twain is an icon, she’s done it all and has had an incredible career, and she’s not slowing down anytime soon… Shania of course perfected the pop country sound of the 90s with hits like “You’re Still The One,” “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!” “From This Moment On,” “Any Man of Mine” and many, many more. She saw unprecedented crossover success, a defining attribute of her career, and she ultimately became the first artist to ever release three consecutive Diamond-certified albums. Twain is gearing up to release a new album called Little Miss Twain on July 24th, and ahead of the new project coming out, she spoke with The Times for a lengthy feature, where she spoke a lot about growing up very poor in Canada and everything she’s accomplished as an artist. Specifically, she opened up about her 2019 Let’s Go! residency at the Zappos Theatre in Las Vegas, where she had torn two muscles in her thigh and it started bruising very fast, which she admits is a result of her being “malnourished”: “I was malnourished. To be thinner.” She had beautiful costumes, and she walked out there to sing to thousands of adoring fans every night… but inside, she was struggling, and in a business where looks matter a lot, she had to face her changing body as she went through menopause and had to deal with the reality of what that meant. In fact, it got so bad that Twain admits she “stopped looking in the mirror,” because she “hated” her body, and it became a very unhealthy relationship. Twain says it got entirely too out of hand, as she started an extremely unhealthy diet, and her body simply couldn’t keep up: “I was doing very unhealthy things. And I was working my body more than I was feeding it, to keep up with the strain. Now I’m, like, bring on the mirrors, I’m going to look at myself all day long!” The aspect of embracing yourself and your looks as a woman is something ladies of pretty much any age can relate to, and I imagine as you age and go through that change, it gets even harder, so I think it’s great that she’s opening up about it and sharing her journey… if Shania can struggle with it, I imagine pretty much anyone can. Of course, Shania has certainly become a feminine icon, but she wouldn’t go as far as to call herself a “feminist.” She says: “I don’t see myself as a feminist. I see myself as a very independent thinker and not necessarily because I’m a woman. I am referred to as a feminist. I think I have a lot of feminist points of view because I am so defensive of the vulnerable woman, I really am. I just feel that I’m strong as a person… I’m not strong for a woman. I’m not independent for a woman. I’m not self-sufficient for a woman. I just am a woman. And this falls on boys too. It’s, like, ‘Oh, the boy needs less protection than the girl because he’s a boy.’ That is so not true and it’s not fair. Vulnerable men need just as much protection as vulnerable women.” She would later add that she aligns with a lot of feminist morals and values, but that the word “feminist” is still tricky for her due to her upbringing. Twain now lives between Switzerland and the Bahamas (and she has other homes in Las Vegas and Canada) with her husband, Swiss businessman Frédéric Thiébaud, whom she married in 2011, and she says her new perspective on her looks and life have been shaped by him. She says Frédéric thinks she’s “the hottest woman on the planet,” and the best at everything she does, and that has given her an incredible confidence to embrace everything about who she is as a woman. She looks absolutely incredible… I’m a good 30-something years younger than her and I wish I looked even a small percentage as good as she does: View this post on Instagram Little Miss Twain will be out next month, and Shania has released one song thus far, “Dirty Rosie.” View this post on Instagram “Dirty Rosie” The post Shania Twain Says She Doesn’t Consider Herself A Feminist: “I Just Am A Woman” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.