Nelly Furtado, 46, calls for a ‘body neutral 2025’ with unedited bikini snaps-Lillie Rohan-Entertainment – Metro

Nelly Furtado has made a ‘body neutral’ plea this 2025 (Pictures: Instagram / Nelly Furtado)

Nelly Furtado has shared an empowering Instagram post, making a plea with fans to have a ‘body neutral 2025’.

The Canadian singer-songwriter, 46, took to the social media platform on Sunday evening, sharing a series of rare unedited bikini snaps as she declared 2025 the year to ‘express yourself freely’.

Posing in a neon orange bikini, Nelly authentically shared her story of body neutrality, telling fans in 2024, she had to pursue legal action against people who were ‘selling services based on selling health and beauty myths about me’.

Presumably prompting her post of honesty, the Maneater singer went on to share industry secrets and revealed whether she has had any cosmetic or plastic surgery since releasing her debut album in 2000.

‘For whoever cares, I have never had any face or body surgeries or augmentation, besides for veneers on the top row of my teeth, quite recently,’ she wrote in the lengthy caption.

Nelly told fans that as of writing, she has not had ‘any face or lip injections or fillers of any kind’, instead choosing to work with an ‘old school facialist’ who she has been seeing since she was 20 years old.

Nelly showed off her bikini body in a new unedited post (Picture: Instagram/Nelly Furtado)

The singer also shared some industry secrets (Picture: Instagram/Nelly Furtado)

Sharing insider knowledge into how she achieves her red carpet or photoshoot-ready looks, the Grammy winner said before big events, she drinks a lot of water and sleeps on her back.

‘Sometimes on the red carpet or at photo shoots my makeup artist uses face tape to give my eyes , skin and makeup more lift,’ she added. ‘Sometimes my stylist uses body tape to give a certain look to different silhouettes. Body makeup can also sometimes be contoured to achieve a certain look.’

The musician continued to say make-up, ‘great’ eyebrows and hairstylists can all do ‘magical’ things but confirmed her bikini snaps in the post are completely unedited and unfiltered, except for her spray tan as she has ‘spider veins’, also known as the condition, Telangiectasia.

‘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 said.

The Maneater singer shot to fame in the early 2000s (Picture: Brian Rasic/Getty Images)

Nelly asked fans to spend 2025 celebrating their ‘individuality’ (Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for LARAS)

Signing off her post, Nelly called for fans to spend 2025 expressing themselves ‘freely’ and celebrating their ‘individuality’.

‘It’s perfectly OK to be OK with what you see in the mirror, and it’s also OK to want something different,’ she said. ‘We are all cute little humans just bouncing around the earth looking for hugs.’

It was a message that clearly resonated with fans as many flocked to the comment section to share their praise for the musician.

@miss_ris13 wrote: ‘Wish more celebrities would explain the tricks of the trade to both women old and young.’

The singer said she has had a glow up in her 40s (Picture: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Coachella)

’HATS OFF for this honest post!!! And respect for embracing your natural self and giving us a glimpse of such a genuine part of yourself’, sisathenelstar1d wrote, calling the star a true ‘inspiration’.

@christinaoutridge added: ‘Beautiful message, Beautiful Soul, Beautiful Body’. While @natbynature said: ‘Queen’.

Nelly’s hairstylist @hello.kells also weighed in, writing: ‘QUEEN. The QUEENIEST of QUEENS. LOVE YOU and your spider veins FOREVER.’ Along with multiple red heart emojis.

This isn’t the first time the musician has made empowering comments in recent months, she also appeared on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast where she said she had a ’40’s glow-up’ and feels more confident now than ever.

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