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Nelly Furtado Says Magazines Would ‘Lighten My Skin’ and ‘Take My Hips Down’ in the Early-2000s

Pop star Nelly Furtado — who just released her new album, '7' — reflects on her early days in the music industry and tells PEOPLE that after she found fame in 2000, magazines would alter her appearance with "a lot of airbrushing."

Nelly Furtado and her daughter Nevis Gahunia pose for PEOPLE at the Orange Lounge recording studio in Toronto on Sept. 9, 2024. Despite those experiences, Furtado looks back on her early fame fondly and feels she was protected from the seedier showbiz trappings that befell some of her pop-star peers. Nelly Furtado and her daughter Nevis Gahunia pose for PEOPLE at the Orange Lounge recording studio in Toronto on Sept. 9, 2024.

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