In a new interview with People, the 35-year-old looked back on the early days of her career. "I have olive skin," she said. "They'd kind of lighten my skin a lot in photos and kind of take my hips down all the time — they would always kind of cut off in editorials."

Nelly Furtado has claimed magazine editors used to her "lighten her skin" in her photoshoots in the early 2000s. The Maneater singer, who has Portuguese parents, claimed to People that her photos were subjected to "a lot of airbrushing" at the start of her career and editors would change the colour of her skin and the position of her hips.

In her newest album, “7,” Nelly Furtado does an adequate job achieving the requirements of an aging pop star but only

"I always had such a good team around me, that was family," she said of how she managed the darker sides of fame.