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Your support makes all the difference.FKA Twigs has said she has no plans to close her iconic tooth gap.
The “Cellophane” singer shared photographs from a recent visit to the dentist, which show her getting what appeared to be braces.
However, she was quick to put her fans’ minds at rest and captioned the photos: “I’m not closing my gap.”
The images show Twigs baring her teeth under a dentist’s spotlight and checking them out in the mirror. Another picture shows her wearing sunglasses as her dentist works on her teeth.
Fans expressed their relief, with one person writing: “And we cheered. That gap is iconic.”
Another said: “Don’t you ever dare”, while a third added: “FKA Twigs has one of the most personable unique faces I’ve ever seen, ethereal af [sic]. She doesn’t need to touch it.”
The singer has previously spoken about how she used to feel self-conscious about her teeth, which she thought were “weird”.
In an interview with British Vogue in July, Twigs recalled wanting to get a full set of veneers when she was younger.
“I have really weird, crazy teeth,” she said. “When I was 20, I was going to get a full set of veneers. I got all the treatments and all the prep done, but the week before, I cancelled it.”
Twigs, whose real name is Tahliah Barnett, said she knew she made the right decision not to change her teeth when she was doing a photoshoot with photographer Alasdair McLellan.
She said: “We were all at the pub and he was doing a shoot for Beat magazine and he asked if I wanted to be in it.
“So, I turned up on the day with my hair scraped back, wearing red lipstick, and he was just like, ‘Go on, get them teeth out, open your mouth’, and I was just like, ‘What?’
“Because I had such big teeth and a big gap between them, which I was really self-conscious about, I couldn’t shut my mouth properly. But he just made me forget about that. He saw something different in me, and it changed my life.”
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