Jordin Sparks is on the cover of Shape magazine’s new issue. Inside the mag, the singer talks about how she felt when she was overweight and what made her do the drastic changes with her body. Jordin lost 50 lbs in a year and now feels sexier than she ever did before.

“I just wanted to be healthy,” she says. “I remember thinking, ‘I’m in my prime. I should be happy and fit.’ That was the moment I decided that changes needed to be made.”

Jordin started by walking around the neighborhood first, then hiking. After a while she joined the gym,s tarted taking Zumba classes and changed her diet.

Read the full interview when the magazine hits the newsstands on July 25.