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New York – Faith Hill looks sizzling hot on the cover of the new issue of Shape magazine.”Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself,” Hill says.Hill credits her excellent figure to Pilates, which she does three times a week.

“I could bend in ways I haven’t been able to since I was a teenager,” she says of the pluses of Pilates. “My husband [Tim McGraw] loves it!”

The country music star says she has always been athletic.

“I was always very athletic, playing basketball and softball and running track. But in my 20s and 30s, I’d go through phases with exercise, working out for four weeks before a big tour or video shoot and not doing much afterward. Then I had three kids and turned 40, so I decided to make a lifestyle change.”

Hill will appear on the Cover of Shape Monday, November 10.