LeAnn Rimes, 40, Goes Nude and Makeup-Free in Emotional New Music Video

• LeAnn Rimes’ strips down to wear only a blanket—and eventually, nothing—in a new video for her song “Spaceship.”

• The raw moments captured represent the song’s emotional nature.

• The footage made a huge impact and brought some fans to tears.

To match the vulnerability of her song “Spaceship,” LeAnn Rimes, 40, stripped down for its raw music video. Wearing just a blanket and no makeup, the singer strolled a mountainous desert and belted out lyrics that embody “tears, loneliness, and rage,” she wrote on Instagram, while her husband, Eddie Cibrian, filmed the intimate moments. To close the video, she dropped her cover and walked away from the camera, nude, baring it all.

Rimes told Entertainment Tonight that the raw project was shot very intentionally. “On this record, everything feels exposed. I think it was purposeful. I think that it’s that raw and that stripped down,” she said. On Instagram, she said that Cibrian being behind the camera made space for her “most primal, emotional self.”

But the opportunity to shoot was semi-random. They were driving through the Alabama Hills in California, and the lighting was just right. “I said, ‘Take your clothes off. Put this blanket on. Let’s shoot something. I just want to shoot something,’” Cibrian told ET. “We just started to shoot.”

“Sometimes moments happen and you can’t recreate them ever again. This was one of the times where everything kind of came together beautifully,” he added. “It told the story that I thought we should tell for this song visually. It’s beautiful, it’s raw, it’s everything.”