Christina Aguilera Talks Weight: “I’m A Fat Girl Now”…
Christina Aguilera covers the October 2012 issue of Billboard magazine and more excerpts from the singer’s interview have surfaced.
Openly candid about her weight, Aguilera reveals that there was a time when her management team wanted her to quickly shed the extra pounds she put on because she was tired of being labeled as the “skinny, blue-eyed white girl.”
The now 31-year-old says she’s completely happy with her curvaceous body and could care less about the media or her teams perception of her.
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“During the promotion of my album 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.
“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 during promotion and during my Stripped tour [with Justin Timberlake]. They called this serious emergency meeting about how there was a lot of backlash about my weight. Basically, they told me I would effect a lot of people if I gained weight — the production, musical directors.
“[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 adds. “I was young, so I lost the weight quickly and was toothpick thin during Back to Basics promos and touring.”
“I told them during this Lotus recording, ‘You are working with a fat girl. Know it now and get over it.’ 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.”
UPDATE: Christina Aguilera’s reps deny the singer made the above comments to Billboard magazine.
