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The rapturous return of FKA twigs: ‘I grew up feeling my body could do anything’

From school to stardom, the singer-performer has always felt like an outsider. She discusses social media censorship, sexuality, crying on stage – and her magical childhood

FKA twigs’ appearance is mysterious: the 37-year-old has wise eyes, seemingly as old as a mountain, but the skin of a 14-year-old; her head is shaved at the side, like an ecowarrior, yet she is ridiculously beautiful, like a Disney princess. Born and raised in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and privately educated on a scholarship, Tahliah Debrett Barnett, as she once was, comes across as much more global than spa town, having taken a circuitous but effective route to the centre of everything. Just before that interview with Elle, FKA twigs filed a lawsuit against LaBeouf for sexual battery, assault and the infliction of emotional distress, which she can’t now talk about, as the hearing is this year.

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