United Kingdom, Feb. 25 -- Jamelia admits her daughter inspired her to push back against her "hypersexualised "persona".

The 44-year-old R+B singer claimed she was "subtly" pressured into wearing more revealing clothing and acting more provocatively when she was in her early 20s, but she dismissed the idea after seeing her young child copying her dance moves at the age of four.

Speaking on the 'We Need To Talk' podcast with Paul C Brunson, she recalled: "There's this idea that if you're an R+B singer, a black woman, you need to have this hypersexualised persona. And I was fighting against that so much.

"I definitely fell into that at first and I loved the attention.

"If you look at pictures at the beginning of my career I was in train...