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• While growing up in poverty, she earned money by singing in local bars.
• Raised her three younger siblings after her mother and stepfather died in a car accident in 1987. 
• Her stepfather, Jerry, was an Ojibwa native; when she changed her name from Eileen, she chose "Shania," which is Ojibwa for "I'm on my way."
• Won the 1999 Entertainer of the Year Award at both the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Country Music Association Awards.
• A vegetarian; she was the first celebrity to be named Sexiest Vegetarian Alive by PETA, in 2001.
• Signed on with Stetson Fragrances in 2005 to develop and market a fragrance line. 
• In 2010, she founded the charity Shania Kids Can, which aims to help underprivileged school-age children.
• Was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2011. 
• Starred in the documentary series Why Not? With Shania Twain on OWN in the spring of 2011.
• Penned the memoir From This Moment On in 2011.