Shania Twain has stopped trying to ‘battle’ against ageing.
The 54-year-old singer has said she’s given up trying to win the fight against time, as she says trying to stop herself from looking older was ‘taking up too much space’ in her life that she could have been using for her career.
‘For me personally, I’m sure it’s very different for everybody, but I just started with time. Stepping out of battles that I couldn’t win. I mean, you know, ageing is a battle you can’t win,’ she said during an appearance on the LadyGang podcast – which will air in full on Tuesday.
She is fine with 54: Shania Twain has stopped trying to ‘battle’ against ageing. The 54-year-old singer has said she’s given up trying to win the fight against time, as she says trying to stop herself from looking older was ‘taking up too much space’ in her life, she told LadyGang; seen on March 7
‘That battle and the focus and energy it takes, is taking up too much space! In my life, my emotional state, my mental state. I’ve got songs to write. I’m not gonna sit around,’ said Twain.
Shania says she would rather ‘dream about songs’ than spend too much time worrying about her looks.
The Man! I Feel Like A Woman! hitmaker – who relaunched her music career in 2017 and is currently headlining a Las Vegas residency – added: ‘I’d rather dream about songs or dream about other things I want to do in my life, and I want to just daydream.
‘I want to fantasize and enjoy what I do have and just, like, forget about the stuff I can’t change, or that I can’t have. So, I think it’s a waste of time and energy to worry about trying to slow my ageing process down.
Looking like a 10: Here the songbird is seen at the Meet Me In Australia event on March 8
‘I’m just going to be healthy and I’m so much more accepting now of the way I look, you know, with and without clothes.’
Shania also explained that her ‘state of mind’ that helps her deal with ageing in the music industry and as a woman, is to ‘identify what it is that I can change and what it’s [that] I cannot change [to] reduce the overload.’
This comes after she said her Lyme disease battle was ‘devastating’.
The hitmaker contracted the tick-borne illness in 2003, and was forced to undergo open-throat surgery after her voice was damaged by the effects of dysphonia as a result of the disease. And now, Shania has said she ‘mourned’ the loss of her voice, because she thought her disease would mean she’d never be able to sing again.
‘It was devastating… I felt I had no other choice but to just accept it – in that I would never sing again. I was mourning the expression of my voice,’ said the star.
Her battle: Twain says her Lyme disease battle was ‘devastating’. She contracted the tick-borne illness in 2003, and was forced to undergo open-throat surgery after her voice was damaged by the effects of dysphonia as a result of the disease she told Sunday Today
Change: And now, Shania has said she ‘mourned’ the loss of her voice, because she thought her disease would mean she’d never be able to sing again
After taking some time away from the spotlight to recover, Shania made her music comeback in 2017, complete with a new gravelly tone to her voice, which she now believes is ‘kinda sexy’.
Speaking in a preview clip for an upcoming interview on Sunday Today with Willie Geist, she added: ‘I’m never going to have my old voice again. I’m okay with that. I’ve found a new voice and I like it. [It’s] kinda sexy.’
Meanwhile, the 54-year-old singer recently spoke about needing to ‘rediscover’ her voice following her series of invasive surgeries.
Tough turn: ‘It was devastating… I felt I had no other choice but to just accept it – in that I would never sing again. I was mourning the expression of my voice,’ said the star. But she said she likes her new voice
She explained: ‘I had to have an operation that was very intense and it’s an open-throat operation, very different from a vocal cord operation.
‘I had to have two of them, so that was really, really, really tough and I survived that – meaning emotionally I survived – and am just ready to keep going.
‘When you’re a singer and it’s your voice, it is just a terrible, terrible feeling. It was a great, great loss, so I had to come to terms with losing the voice that I had and rediscovering my new one.’
Back on stage: Twain performs on the runway at the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Red Dress Collection 2020 at Hammerstein Ballroom on February 5
A new pal: With Meghan Trainor, left, at the event in New York City
Some of the vocal damage the ‘From This Moment On’ singer sustained is sadly permanent, but Shania insisted she isn’t letting the uncertain future of her voice hold her back.
She said: ‘It’s been a long, a really rewarding, journey. What I’ve learned in the interim through therapy is how to manipulate my voice to get it to do what I want it to do or at least close enough.
‘I don’t want to give up, so I’m willing, you know, you just gotta be willing and give in to change and you have to accept that you don’t always have to be the same, and that’s what I have to do, and I’m embracing that.’
Her true love: With husband Frederic Thiebaud at the Nevada Ballet Theatre’s ‘Black & White Ball’, Caesars Palace Hotel & Caisno, Las Vegas, in January