Shania Twain says posing topless at age 57

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Shania Twain is opening up about her reasons for posing topless

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In an interview with Extra published Friday, the singer, 57

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got candid about feeling insecure about her body growing up 

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 I’ve been very shy about my body from a very young age

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I would not go to the beach in a bathing suit

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 Twain said, adding she was "really tortured by (body insecurity) from the age of 10

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As an adult, Twain said she started taking steps to embrace her body

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