“I Love How She Looks”: Nelly Furtado Rings In 2025 With Empowering Bikini Photos

The singer-songwriter, born to Portuguese parents and raised in Canada, is no stranger to the unrealistic beauty standards set by the industry. Earlier this year, she revealed that her face would often be made lighter and her body would be altered back when she was a young, breakout artist.

“I have olive skin, and they’d kind of lighten my skin a lot in photos,” she told People , “and kind of take my hips down all the time—they would always cut off in editorials.”

“By my second album, I guess I was kind of angry about it,” she added.