The Way That I Am is the second studio album by American country music singer Martina McBride, released on September 14, 1993, through RCA Nashville.

This was her breakthrough album, producing her first Top 5 hit in "My Baby Loves Me", which was previously released as a single by Canadian singer Patricia Conroy from her 1992 album Bad Day for Trains.

McBride's version was a number 2 hit on the Hot Country Songs.

Although never released as a single, "Strangers" was reprised on McBride's Greatest Hits album in 2001.

[4] The Compact Cassette version of this album omits the final track, "Ashes".