14 DAY TRIAL // She’s said it before and more likely she’s going to say it again: Christina Aguilera is curvy and she’s proud of the way she looks. In her new interview with Billboard, the diva tells her critics to shut it: she’s a “fat girl, get over it.”
As we also noted last week, the latest issue of Billboard comes with an extensive interview with Aguilera, who is now preparing for her music comeback, with “Lotus,” which will be out later this year.
Not only does she talk about her new music and how it reflects her growth as an artist, but she also tackles more personal matters, such as her weight and how it’s turned her into a victim of bullying from the press.
The bottom line is, Christina says, that she was too thin back when people said she was ok. She was never meant to be as slim as she was.
“During the promotion of Stripped in 2002 I got tired of being a skinny, white girl. I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl,” Aguilera recalls.
“The next time my label saw me, I was heavier, darker and full of piercings! Let me tell you, that wasn't an easy pill for them to swallow. I had gained about 15 pounds [6.8 kg] during promotion and during my Stripped tour,” the singer goes on to say.
It was then that her label and her people basically tried to bully her into losing weight, even putting the fate of the people working for her in her hands.
“They called this serious emergency meeting about how there was a lot of backlash about my weight. Basically, they told me I would affect a lot of people if I gained weight – the production, musical directors,” Christina says.
“[They claimed] people I toured with would also miss out if I gained weight because I would sell no records or tickets for my shows,” she goes on to say.
Eventually, Christina caved in to pressure and forced herself to lose the extra weight. In almost no time, she was “toothpick thin” again but she knows now that this was not the best course of action.
“You are working with a fat girl. Know it now and get over it,” Christina says she told her label bosses, when she started working on “Lotus.”
“They need a reminder sometimes that I don't belong to them. It's my body. My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore – my body is just not on the table that way anymore,” she stresses.
The leading single off “Lotus” is “Your Body,” for which Christina released a video late last week. Check it out below.
