~ In a quick clip of "What Made You Say That?", Shania needed a pin to hold up the left side of her dress.
~ Shania says she looked funny in "You Lay a Whole Lotta Love on Me"
~ In "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?", the customers in the customers in the diner were real customers. There was an energetic old man in the diner, and off camera Shania asked him how he stayed so energetic. He replied, "I take Ginseng every day!" Shania laughed.
~ The horse in the video for "Any Man of Mine" was trained in 5 minutes to grab the bath towel for Shania. Shania was completely surprised that the horse actually did it.
~ It was incredibly hot during the filming of "The Woman In Me", yet the director still climbed to the top of a pyramid to get a shot of Shania riding a horse. Shania also received a painful ankle scrape during this video.
~ During the filming for "(If You're Not In It For Love) I'm Outta Here!", Shania told the people at the shoot that they were just going to have fun with the camera rolling, and nothing would be staged.
~ In "You Win My Love", the shots of Shania doing gymnastics flips were taken at 3 AM. At the end of the day, Shania said her body was all vibrated out form the go-carts. She also said this was her most physically demanding video.
~ Shania said the baby in "Home Ain't Where His Heart Is (Anymore)" was really good and well-behaved. (The baby is the daughter of director Steven Goldman.) She really enjoyed handling the baby because she loves kids. Shania was also freezing cold during this video.
~ Shania said "Love Gets Me Every Time" was the easiest video she'd ever made.
~ The youngest violinist in the video for "Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)" was only 6 years old.
~ Shania had allergies during the shooting of "You're Still The One". The man in the video, John Devoe, tried to hitch with Shania during the shoot, but all Shania talked about was Mutt. Also, the shot where a woman is climbing from the sand to the porch of the beach house? That isn't Shania . . . it's a body double.
~ "When" is Shania's favorite song on Come On Over.
~ Shania was born as Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
~ She's the second of 5 children--Jill, Carrie-Ann, Mark, and Darryl are the others.
~ Her biological father, Clarence Edwards, left the family when Eilleen was two.
~ Eilleen's mother moved the family to Timmins, where she met and married Gerald "Jerry" Twain, who adopted Eilleen and her sisters when Eilleen was four years old.
~ Shania is Irish and French-Canadian; she was raised with Jerry's Ojibwa culture.
~ "Shania" means "on my way" in Ojibway.
~ Shania's first paid performance was at age 8 at the Mattagami Hotel in Timmins. She was paid $25.
~ Shania used to work at McDonalds, and is now an honorary employee for life.
~ Her dog Tim is named after Timmins, where she grew up.
~ Shania also has 2 brown Newfoundland dogs and 3 horses named Dancer, Star, and Tango.
~ Shania was a crew foreman in her dad's reforestation business, which she worked in for 6 months out of 12 between ages 17-21.
~ Her first commercial recording was a 1985 duet with Tim Denis called "Heavy On The Sunshine". She also sang back vocals on the Sammy Kershaw song "Haunted Heart".
~ Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Shanias husband, used her first album, Shania Twain, to work out to.
~ Shania owns a 4x4 Jimmy Jeep with "TWAIN" on the side.
~ Shania and Mutt have a mini-castle (Chateau de Sully) at La Tour-de-Peilz (VD) in Switzerland.
~ NASCAR driver Tim Fedewa named his car "Shania".
~ Shania visited five Columbine victims still hospitalized. She brought each teen a signed photo and portable CD player.
~ Al Gore used "Rock This Country!" to help his launch his campaign.
~ Shania was featured 10 times in CMT's Top 100 Requested Songs of 1999! "Any Man Of Mine" was the highest, coming in at #3!
Thanks, Matt and Kyle!
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