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<\/noscript> <\/div>\nOpening up: Shania Twain has revealed she used to flatten her breasts to avoid sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather as a teenager (pictured last month)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/noscript> <\/div>\nBack then: Shania says she grew up in poverty in Ontario with four siblings living with her mum Sharon and stepdad Jerry Twain, who legally adopted the children (pictured as a teenager)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Speaking to The Sunday Times, Shania said: ‘I hid myself and I would flatten my boobs. 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.<\/p>\n
‘Because, oh my gosh, it was terrible \u2014 you didn’t want to be a girl in my house.’<\/p>\n
She went on to explain that this only continued as she grew up and left the household to experience it in day-to-day society.<\/p>\n
Shania added: ‘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 sh***y to be a girl. Oh, it’s so sh***y to have boobs.” I was ashamed of being a girl.’<\/p>\n
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<\/noscript> <\/div>\n<\/div>\nYoungster; As a way of coping with his physical and sexual abuse, Shania explained in a candid interview that she would try anything she could to make herself go unnoticed in the house (pictured left, as a baby and right growing up)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/noscript> <\/div>\nHitmaker: The Man! I Feel Like a Woman hitmaker (pictured in the music video) said: ‘I hid myself and I would flatten my boobs. 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’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In 2018, Shania said the abuse started when she was around the age of 10. <\/span><\/p>\nAdmitting she had been sexually abused, she told The Guardian: ‘Uh huh, uh huh. I’m not going to go into details about it. I don’t mind saying it, because I do think it’s important that people understand you can survive these things.’ <\/p>\n
She explained: ‘I feel the sexual abuse goes hand in hand with the physical and psychological abuse when it’s somebody you know. I learned to block it out. <\/p>\n
‘Abusers need to manipulate you, whether it’s before or after, and what I said to myself is: “OK, there’s something wrong with this person and that person is not well.”‘<\/p>\n
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<\/noscript> <\/div>\nCandid: In 2018, Shania said the abuse started when she was around the age of 10 (pictured in October)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Shania did not know her biological father. Her stepfather Jerry and her mother Sharon died in a car crash in 1987.<\/p>\n
It comes after Shania recently revealed that she once had a very awkward moment with talk show icon Oprah Winfrey over dinner, when the conversation turned to religion.<\/p>\n
The 57-year-old country singer sat down for a podcast interview on Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware to promote latest single Waking Up Dreaming, and revealed how things quickly turned ‘sour’ with Oprah, 68.<\/p>\n
While she explained that it was ‘one of my most memorable dinners’ with Oprah, that took place at a restaurant, Shania recalled how she could sense a disagreement between them over their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n
‘It was great to just have real talks, but as soon as we started talking about religion, it all went sour,’ Shania confessed. <\/p>\n
‘So, I said, “Let’s stop talking about religion,”‘ Twin recalled, while adding that Oprah – who was raised in the Baptist Church and is a Christian – ‘is \u200b\u200bquite religious.’<\/p>\n
The country singer called Oprah ‘a smart lady.’<\/p>\n
She clarified her position on the topic, noting that she’s ‘not religious in the sense that I’m dedicated to a religion. I’m much more of a spiritual person. I would say I’m a seeker.’<\/p>\n
If you are in the UK and have experienced rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse or any other type of sexual violence please call Rape Crisis on 0808 802 9999<\/span><\/p>\nIf you are in the US please call RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) on 800.656.4673 <\/span><\/p>\n\n
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<\/noscript> <\/div>\nTragedy: Shania did not know her biological father. Her stepfather Jerry and her mother Sharon died in a car crash in 1987<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Shania Twain has revealed she used to flatten her breasts to avoid sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather as a teenager. The Canadian singer-songwriter, 57, has been open about her difficult childhood, growing up in poverty in Ontario with four siblings living with her mum Sharon and stepdad Jerry Twain, who legally adopted …<\/p>\n
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