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Shania Twain on Embracing Menopause and Remaining Unbothered by Body Shaming: ‘I’m Not Trying to Be 30’ (Exclusive)

“Vanity is not worth torture,” Twain says in this week’s PEOPLE cover story

By Ilana Kaplan | PEOPLE | July 30, 2026

Shania Twain is embracing menopause.

The country superstar recalled how this change of life was at the root of a 2019 incident in which she sustained an injury and had to be carried off stage in Las Vegas.

“I ripped two muscles in my thigh, and a lot of it was dehydration because I wasn’t really adapted to the Nevada climate,” Twain, 60, tells PEOPLE. “I wasn’t drinking enough water, I was not eating enough protein, and I was really going through a raging period of menopause. I was just getting this bloat that I didn’t understand.”

At the time, the “Faded Blue Jeans” performer was malnourished because she was cutting back on certain foods, she has said.

“I wasn’t eating enough salt, I wasn’t retaining any water, and I wasn’t drinking enough water. It was just this perfect storm for disaster, and I ripped these muscles,” says Twain.

She struggled with the physical changes she was noticing as well.

“I go from being this young, stunning figure, beautiful skin, everything’s in the right place [to a] time in my life where I couldn’t look in the mirror because all I could see were imperfections and not wanting to be that curvy thing,” Twain recalls.

The “Dirty Rosie” artist has since shifted her perspective and made it a priority to take care of herself during menopause.

“It is well-being first, always,” says Twain. “To becoming an older woman and now looking in the mirror, no problem. I’m like, I just have to get over this because every day that goes by, I’m getting older; the dips and bulges and the sags are just getting more and more prominent.”

Her mantra now is to “enjoy every day for what it is.”

“I’m not trying to be 30. I’m not trying to be 25, and I won’t be ever again. That’s my own fault for not looking in the mirror when I was younger, and shame on me. I encourage everybody: enjoy yourself the way you are right now and love it,” says Twain.

She adds, “Vanity is not worth torture.”

When it comes to menopause, Twain has learned to go with the flow.

"I’m just learning every phase that I go through, and I adapt,” she says. “I can’t play tennis like a maniac the way I used to in my 30s because I’m going to break my body. My wrist started to go because I planted so many trees in my youth, and I’ve got this big carpal lump. The first thing to go for me in tennis was my backhand. So I’m like, ‘It’s time to take on the double-handed backhand.’ And it’s more wicked than my one-handed backhand!”

Over the years, Twain has endured negative comments about her appearance. But the icon remains unbothered.

“My body is not shameable. That courage comes with time and maturity,” she says. “Body shaming is nothing that’s going to affect me.”

Last month, the “Still the One” performer opened up about how menopause has been beneficial for her in an interview with The Times.

“Menopause has been very good for me because I’ve learned that some things you cannot control,” Twain said at the time.

In a 2023 interview with the New York Post, she also noted that menopause taught her “to quickly say, ‘You know, it may only get worse. So just love yourself now. Just get over your insecurities — they’re standing in your way. And fear is standing in your way.’”

Twain’s new album Little Miss Twain is out now.

For more on Shania Twain, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.

https://people.com/shania-twain-embracing-menopause-remaining-unbothered-body-shaming-12028667

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Shania Twain Reveals the No. 1 Reason She Feels ‘Blessed’ in Her 15-Year Marriage to Her ‘Forever True Love’ (Exclusive)

Twain has been married to Frédéric Thiébaud since 2011

By Ilana Kaplan | PEOPLE | July 30, 2026

Shania Twain found her “Forever and Always” happy ending.

The country icon, who has been married to husband Frédéric Thiébaud for 15 years, tells PEOPLE she’s found her “forever true love” in the former Nestlé exec.

“This is the love I’m going to grow old with,” says Twain, 60, says in this week’s PEOPLE cover story, “and it’s a beautiful feeling.”

The pair share a profound bond, she adds.

“I’m sure we’ll always have romance, but there’s a depth and a gratitude that I have about having this love,” Twain says. “And if I [had] met Fred as a teenager, I do believe that he would have been my lifelong love even from then. It just takes sometimes years to find that person.”

Twain also credits Thiébaud, 55, for helping their marriage stay on track

“He’s really good at reminding both of us that we have to keep communication open,” she says. “He’s the greatest talker, and he’s not inhibited at all with expressing his feelings, which is really wonderful in a man. If you have a man that is really open and wants to keep the communication open, you’re blessed as a woman.”

While Twain notes that she’s “a good communicator,” but she’d rather “meditate over the issue, take a walk or be alone with my guitar if I’m having a marital issue.”

“Fred wants to talk about it. He wants to talk it through, and he wants to fix it,” she adds. “And that’s the best advice. I mean, he’s not wrong.”

Twain and Thiébaud officially began dating in 2009 and got engaged in December 2010. On New Year’s Day 2011, just a month later, Twain and Thiébaud were married in a small sunset ceremony in Rincon, Puerto Rico.

The “Still the One” hitmaker and the Swiss businessman famously fell in love after Twain split from her ex-husband, Robert “Mutt” Lange, who allegedly had an affair with Thiébaud’s then-wife Marie-Anne — a close friend of Twain’s at the time.

The singer-songwriter reflected on the difficult period — and the love that grew out of it — in a 2022 PEOPLE cover story.

“That is a really strong bond that builds over time, that is rare, that you don’t have in every relationship if you don’t have those deep scars in common. We were a big part of each other’s healing,” Twain said of Thiébaud at the time. “When I got divorced I said, ‘I’m never getting married again.’ I was definitely one of those people that could have written a million songs about, ‘I’m never going to fall in love again.’ But Fred was such an undeniable love.”

Twain and Lange share son Eja, 25, whom they co-parented following the split. “I found peace a long time ago, and maybe peace is forgiveness, you know?” Twain added in 2022 of moving on from Lange. “I’m able to have more appreciation for him again, not for what happened in our marriage but for all that he contributed to such a great part of my career and my life. We have a beautiful child from it. The resentment is gone.”

Twain’s new album Little Miss Twain is out now.

For more on Shania Twain, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.

https://people.com/shania-twain-reason-feels-blessed-15-year-marriage-exclusive-12028901

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Shania Twain Reveals the ‘Honest’ Advice She Gave Jon Bon Jovi When She Referred Him to Her Vocal Cord Surgeon (Exclusive)

Twain underwent a vocal fold medialization procedure in 2018, while Bon Jovi had the same surgery to alleviate his loose vocal cords in June 2022

By Ilana Kaplan | PEOPLE | July 31, 2026

Shania Twain was a shoulder for Jon Bon Jovi to lean on during his vocal cord issues.

Twain, 60, who underwent a vocal fold medialization procedure in 2018, was able to help Bon Jovi, 64, when he underwent the same procedure in June 2022.

The “Come on Over” musician tells PEOPLE that she initially met Bon Jovi on an international flight to Europe.

“We just bumped into each other in the aisle and he said, ‘Shania, it’s really cool to meet you. I’ve heard that you have the reputation of being the hardest-working artist in the industry. I have the same reputation. Nice to meet you.’ I think he felt already early on that we had something in common,” Twain recalls.

At the time, she says the “It’s My Life” hitmaker was experiencing “laryngeal nerve problems.”

“I had already been through that due to Lyme disease, and he just called me up and said, ‘Share everything you know about how you got back singing live after nerve atrophy in the voice,’” Twain recalls.

She added, “I shared my surgeon’s information with him, my experience with him, and I encouraged him to weigh up all the scenarios. I told him that it worked for me, and that I was honest. I think he really appreciated that, was able to take it all on board.”

Twain says that her voice “has never been the same” since the surgery but she can sing: “I’m way more gravelly. I have this rasp. I have more character.”

Twain also warned Bon Jovi that the surgery was “scary,” she says. “It’s an open-throat surgery, and you have to be awake. I said, ‘I just have to be honest with you because if you’re going into this, you’re going to hear it from the surgeon anyway, but you might as well hear it from somebody who’s been through it.’”

Even now, Twain isn’t sure that other musicians have been through the surgery that they have, since she says it’s only typical for injury patients like “boxers” or “cancer patients where they have to remove tumors near those nerves and in the throat, neck, or tongue, mouth area.”

Twain says that even with the surgery, there’s no guarantee that your voice will recover properly.

“You’re jumping into it. You have to be brave, and you have to make a choice. I either never sing again, I’ll never be able to cope with [or] live with this hour and a half, two hours of singing live, or proper vocal expression. Or, I get the operation, and I take the chance. What do I have to lose?”

Indeed, Twain went for it. “[My voice is] different, I embrace it,” she says. “I’m grateful that I can sing, I can hold a note, and I can be loud and proud.”

In April 2024, Bon Jovi opened up to PEOPLE about how Twain had become his “spirit sister” while he was struggling with vocal cord issues.

At the time, the “Any Man of Mine” performer said he had the “same doctor” and “same surgery” as the five-time Grammy winner.

“She’s the only other one I’ve known that’s ever had this surgery, with this doctor, and the only reason I found that out is because she reported it in the press,” Bon Jovi said of discovering that they had the same doctor, Robert Sataloff.

He added that Twain gave him reassurance that everything “would be OK.”

“I think she also pulled my leg a little bit because she told me I’d be out there a lot sooner than I have been. She says, ‘Well, I told you that because I knew that you might back out otherwise.’ And so, I couldn’t wait to get the operation,’” said Bon Jovi.

After having his surgery in 2022, which alleviated his vocal cords, he and Twain celebrated at the MusiCares Person of the Year Gala in February 2024 where Bon Jovi was the event’s honoree and Twain delivered a cover of Bon Jovi’s “Bed of Roses.”

Twain’s new album Little Miss Twain is out now.

For more on Shania Twain, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.

https://people.com/shania-twain-honest-advice-jon-bon-jovi-vocal-chord-issues-exclusive-12029346