14 DAY TRIAL // On August 16, singer and television personality Christina Aguilera and her fiancé Matthew Rutler welcomed into the world their first child together, daughter Summer Rain Rutler. Two months later, the diva is halfway to getting her pre-pregnancy figure back, it has emerged.
She’s already dropped about 15 pounds (6.8 kg) but she’s not done yet, an insider reveals for Radar Online. Considering she only gave birth a couple of months ago, it seems that the diva will be back in top shape in almost no time.
Christina’s weight loss explained: breastfeeding and exercise
The singer, dubbed The Voice in the media long before she was involved in NBC’s singing competition of the same name, has struggled a lot with her yo-yo-ing weight in recent years, which explains the constant interest in her figure.
When she announced her second pregnancy in February (she has a son with ex-husband Jordan Bratman), many commenters online started to speculate on how much weight she’d gain and how long it would take her to shift the extra pounds.
These are mean things to say about a pregnant woman, but this is our reality – and the pressure is twice as big on female stars than on regular women to get back in shape ASAP.
Christina is nearly there, as per the report.
“She’s losing weight at a rapid pace and will have lost all of the 35 pounds [15.8 kg] she gained during pregnancy within a matter of weeks,” says the unnamed source.
“Christina looks incredible. She’s breastfeeding, which takes away all of that bloat, and is consuming only around 1,600 calories a day. It would be even less, but she has to have an extra 500 calories to breastfeed. She’s doing a lot of yoga, meditation, treadmill, boxing and working out with her personal trainer,” adds the same insider.
In other words, she’s doing common sense stuff, like eat healthy and get plenty of exercise.
A new stage in Aguilera’s life
When her marriage to Bratman fell apart, Christina Aguilera went off the rails for a bit. She started dating Rutler, whom she’d met on the set of “Burlesque,” where he worked as a PA, and was said to be relying a lot on alcohol to numb the pain from the divorce.
As her weight ballooned, reports that she was drinking and partying too much started picking up online. She and Rutler were arrested for DUI and disorderly conduct, she reportedly passed out in Jeremy Renner’s bed at a party at his house she crashed, and she was acting like a very insufferable diva to anyone who was trying to ring the alarm on the dangers of this kind of irresponsible behavior.
Then, Christina went away for a while and reportedly got her life back on track. When she came back, fans noticed that she’d lost the extra weight and realized that she hadn’t been photographed stumbling out of clubs on Rutler’s arm in quite some time.
The engagement and pregnancy announcements came shortly afterwards. Whilst still with child, Christina tweeted to fans that she was also recording new music. She is definitely preparing for a new stage in her life, both on a personal and professional level. And it’s going to be glorious.