Shania Twain Reveals She Had to Flatten Her Chest as a Child to Avoid Stepfather's Sexual Abuse

Shania Twain is detailing her experience with her stepfather who was sexually and physically abusive to her growing up.

The 57-year-old country singer was raised by her mother Sharon and stepfather Jerry Twain, who legally adopted her and her four siblings.

“I hid myself and I would flatten my boobs,” Shania said. “Because, oh my gosh, it was terrible — you didn’t want to be a girl in my house.”

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“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,” Shania told The Sunday Times.

“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,” Shania said of how she processed her feelings. “So then you think, ‘Oh, I guess it’s just s—ty to be a girl. Oh, it’s so s—ty to have boobs.’ I was ashamed of being a girl.”

When Shania was 22, her parents died in a car crash, which allowed her to embrace her womanhood.

“All of a sudden it was like, ‘Well, what’s your problem? You know, you’re a woman and you have this beautiful body.’ What was so natural for other people was so scary for me. I felt exploited, but I didn’t have a choice now,” Shania said of her growing fame.

“I had to play the glamorous singer, had to wear my femininity more openly or more freely. And work out how I’m not gonna get groped, or raped by someone’s eyes, you know, and feel so degraded,” she shared.

At the 2022 Coachella Music Festival, Harry Styles brought out Shania Twain and the pair performed her 1997 hit “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” before launching into a rendition of her ballad “You’re Still the One.”