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Nelly Furtado is pressing pause on her music performance career.

The Grammy-winning singer revealed on social media that she’s stepping away from the concert stage amid a wave of online body-shaming.

"I have decided to step away from performance for the foreseeable future and pursue some other creative and personal endeavors that I feel would better suit this next phase of my life," Furtado wrote in an Instagram post marking the 25th anniversary of her debut album, "Whoa, Nelly!"

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"I have enjoyed my career immensely, and I still love writing music , as I have always seen it as a hobby I was lucky enough to make into a career

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