Shania Twain Recalls Coping With Her Stepfather's Abuse Growing Up
. "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. Because, oh my gosh, it was terrible—you didn't want to be a girl in my house.
"died in a car accident when she was 22, she stepped in to raise her four siblings—all while coping with their death and coming to terms with the abuse she says she experienced."Then you go into society and you're a girl and you're getting the normal other unpleasant stuff too, and that reinforces it," she continued. "So then you think, 'Oh, I guess it's just s--tty to be a girl. Oh, it's so s--tty to have boobs.' I was ashamed of being a girl.
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