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Camila Cabello Is In Control: 'I Express Myself However I Want'

The former Fifth Harmony member discusses migrating from Cuba, going solo and defining her own sex appeal.
Camila Cabello on stage in December during Z100's Jingle Ball in New York City.

Camila Cabello got her start as one-fifth of Fifth Harmony, a group formed by music impresario Simon Cowell from girls who had auditioned for the music competition show The X Factor. The experience forced a teenage Cabello out of her shell and propelled her and her bandmates to pop stardom.

"I was super shy, very introverted, kind of a wimp, didn't really go out much," Cabello remembers of that time. "I was always in my own little bubble and then suddenly I was, like, singing on national television every week. It was like a boot

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