She’s beautiful and that’s for sure.
Nelly Furtado kicked off 2025 by sharing a message of body acceptance with fans to celebrate her newfound self-love.
The singer-songwriter — who rose to fame in the early aughts — proudly posed in a bright orange bikini in photos shared on Instagram Sunday.
She showed off her figure in the eye-catching two-piece while taking snaps in a mirror.
“HAVE A BODY NEUTRAL 2025, 😉, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, LOVE WITH EVERY INCH OF YOUR HEART ♥️THANKS FOR ALL THE MEMORIES THIS YEAR 🙏🏼,” Furtado, 46, began her caption.
“This year I became aware of the aesthetic pressure of my work in a brand new way, while simultaneously I experienced new levels of self-love and genuine confidence from within.”
The Grammy-winning artist further explained that she was not wearing any makeup and the pictures were not edited or filtered.
“But I do have a spray tan! 😆 I have spider veins ( 🕷️😮) and they remind me of my mom and aunties and life so I think that’s why I haven’t parted with them so far ❤️,” she added.
The “Promiscuous” hitmaker also denied having cosmetic surgery on her face and body, aside from getting veneers on her top row of teeth “quite recently.”
“So far, I have not had any face or lip injections or fillers of any kind, but I do have a loving, old school facialist who I purchase serums and creams from and I started that when I was 20,” she continued.
Furtado went on to list some of her secrets for red carpets and photo shoots, including face tape to give her eyes and skin a lift and body tape for “different silhouettes.”
“Body makeup can also sometimes be contoured to achieve a certain look,” she wrote. “Makeup can do magical things! So can great eyebrows! So can a great hairstylist! So can great underthings!”
Furtado concluded that her message to fans for the new year was to “express yourself freely, celebrate your individuality and know that it’s perfectly OK to be OK with what you see in the mirror, and it’s also OK to want something different.”
She added, “We are all cute little humans just bouncing around the earth looking for hugs.”
The “Say It Right” singer’s empowering post comes months after she claimed magazines used to alter her skin color and body in photo shoots.
“I have olive skin, and they’d kind of lighten my skin a lot in photos and kind of take my hips down all the time — they would always cut off in editorials,” Furtado told People in September 2024.
She also recalled there being “a lot of airbrushing” at the height of her fame in the 2000s.
The Canadian performer — whose parents immigrated from Portugal — previously called out the practices on her 2003 song “Powerless.”
