Christina Aguilera: "I told my team, 'Now you're working with a fat singer!'

In November, the 31-year-old pop diva releases a new album, “Lotus,” which marks “the transformation of a girl into a woman.” Growing up was also reflected in Christina’s figure, which became more curvy and rounded. But she is in no hurry to lose weight. She claims that she hasn’t felt better for a long time than she does now.

Talisman of bad luck October 2012. Los Angeles

“Mom, I think this one will suit us,” Max said confidently.

Christina smiled approvingly, although she did not understand how the pumpkin chosen by her son differed from dozens of exactly the same ones at the traditional pumpkin fair before Halloween.

While Max was digging through pumpkins, and the singer's boyfriend Matt Rutler was diligently photographing him, Christina enjoyed a rare feeling of freedom from her publicity. Without bright makeup, in a loose checkered shirt, tight jeans and flat shoes, she felt unusual. The only thing that gave her away as a pop diva was her hair, which was dyed fuchsia at the ends.

Christina likes to remind herself what regular life tastes like to make sure she's not tired of the glamor and fame. She is flattered when they recognize her, fortunately the singer managed to wean Max from rushing at autograph hunters with fists and shouts: “Don’t touch my mom!” Christina is not even embarrassed by the fact that for the last two years her name has mostly been mentioned in the press in connection with drinking binges and wild antics. “Like any person, I am not immune to breakdowns, mistakes and stupidity,” she says. “But life won’t be enough for me if I hide in a hole every time and die there from shame for years.” Why should I be ashamed of my human nature and imperfection? I can do whatever I want as long as my actions do not harm other people. I look at my mistakes as life experiences, pick myself up, dust myself off and move on.”

Three years ago, she decided that she was not interested in other people’s opinions about her lifestyle, and attempts at pressure and control were unacceptable. This was the main reason for the divorce from her husband, producer Jordan Brae, and she had to leave her retinue at home. And suddenly I realized that - wow! “I’m quite capable of making decisions and doing things myself.”

Remembering “Burlesque,” ​​Christina automatically found Matt with her eyes, who was wandering after Max among the pumpkin mountains. She also found him on the set, where he had the low-esteem position of assistant to the director of the film - an errand boy. After the domineering and demanding Jordan, a relationship with a modest, unassuming man seemed like a breath of fresh air to Christina. At the end of the marriage, she tried to equalize her rights with her husband, causing scandals from the series “I earn all the money in the family, I’m a superstar, and who are you?”, but the established and wealthy Jordan always had something to answer.

With Matt there were simply no reasons for such conversations - they already found something to chat about. “Matt is the person you call in the evening with some trivial matter. And when, having discussed everything in the world, you hang up, it turns out that it’s dawn outside,” Christina said. “Before I met him, I had no idea that I could be interesting to a man as an interlocutor.”

Christina's circle reacted strictly negatively to her new novel. Matt was considered a parasitic singer who encouraged the singer's riotous moods. Behind his back, the guy was called a talisman of bad luck. Christina responded with a promise to remove from her pay anyone who allowed themselves to criticize her or Matt. “I don’t pay my staff to preach,” Aguilera said. “And I don’t need moral teaching from my family and friends who live at my expense either.” Let everyone solve their own problems and be responsible for their actions.”

Christina couldn't stop people from thinking that Matt's "bad influence" caused her brakes to fail. But she saw the situation fundamentally differently: when the belated process of growing up took her to the next sharp turn, Matt was always there and resignedly shared the most catastrophic consequences with her.

Downhill March 2011. Los Angeles

Christina woke up with pain in her stiff back, but could not muster the strength to open her eyes. My head was buzzing, and I had a nasty taste of yesterday’s alcohol in my mouth. With difficulty opening the eye that was not so tightly sealed with leaking mascara, she saw a world full of bars.

- Matt? - Christina called in a terrible whisper. - Where are you?

“I’m here, Tina, don’t worry,” he responded from somewhere on the side.

- Fine. And here - where is it?

- At the police station.

Christina moaned. In fragmentary memories of last night, the traffic police were present.

For some reason, she imagined her mother’s face, assuring her that this would never have happened under Jordan. Well, of course... The whole difference is that with Jordan, Christina would have drunk herself quietly and unnoticed even to herself. The husband knew very well that the singer abused alcohol, but the business left him neither the time nor the strength to deal with it. He limited himself to not allowing Christina to drink in public. She escaped from stress and mental loneliness behind the closed doors of the mansion, sometimes without getting out of bed for days, which she called her “kingdom and throne.” There, the servants brought her food and drinks, which Jordan objected to only if the binge threatened to interfere with studio recordings, concerts or interviews.

After breaking up with Jordan, Christina continued to drink, because breaking the established, safe, order of life, regulated to the smallest detail by someone else, turned out to be harder than she expected. In addition, Jordan did not want to leave their family home for more than a year. Christina tried everything: first she wandered around hotels, then returned to the marital shelter with Matt, but the tense atmosphere that reigned in the house after that steadily pushed the singer towards a nervous breakdown.

Eyewitnesses recalled that in Jordan’s presence she lost self-confidence and drowned out stress with food and alcohol. The first alarm bell was the January incident at the birthday party of actor Jeremy Renner. Matt received the invitation; Christina, who did not know the birthday boy personally, went to the celebration as a companion. “She was already pretty drunk,” the guests said. - She behaved like a retard. Matt kept asking her to be quiet, trying to persuade her to go home to sleep.” To some extent, Christina heeded the advice. “She passed out in my room,” Renner later recalled. — She was lying on the bed in a semi-conscious state, muttering something, and her boyfriend was rubbing her back. She’s not a teenager to do this when visiting strangers.”

But the petty shame was not enough to return Christine to a sense of reality. Over the next two months, she managed to disgrace the whole country twice: speaking before the final of the baseball championship, she mixed up the words of the American anthem, and then almost fell on stage during a concert on the occasion of the Grammy Awards. “There were too many people and too much light in the stadium,” Christina explained. “For a second I was completely lost, my head was spinning. And there’s nothing to say about the Grammy: the heel got tangled in the train. There will be a lesson for me: never combine high heels and long dresses at concerts - my coordination is not enough for this. Maybe someone expects me to cry because of such stories, but I laugh at them.”

The singer didn’t just laugh, she seemed to challenge fate, asking over and over again: “What could be worse than what has already happened to me?” After all, sometimes only a painful blow to the bottom can awaken a person from complacency and illusions.

Christina sat down on the bench, smoothed her protruding hair with her hands and looked around. While she was sleeping, Matt put her rolled up jacket under her head and covered it with his own, and he sat all night in a T-shirt. “Yes, perhaps the night in the slammer can be considered the rock bottom,” Christina decided.

As last night gradually became clearer in my head, a tight spring of anger unfolded inside.

The singer stood up and, staggering on her heels, walked towards the bars.

- Hey, someone! I want to see your boss! — A powerful voice of several octaves, amplified by anger, almost knocked out the window panes.

“Tina, please don’t piss off the police,” Matt whined.

But Christina broke up.

“You were in a deranged state,” the station chief, who arrived in time to the screams, tried to explain to her. “They couldn’t stand on their feet, they couldn’t give their address.” In such cases, the instructions oblige us to deliver people to the department for their own safety.

- Yes, the hell with it! According to the protocol, you detained me for being intoxicated in public. And I was in my car - and not driving! I didn't put anyone in danger, I didn't bother anyone!

“But Mr. Rutler, who was driving the car, was also drunk.”

- Within the limits allowed in this state. — Christina tapped her fingernail according to the protocol. “Have you read the newspapers and thought that now I can be arrested just because I am me?” Would you like to become part of a cheap sensation? Have you thought about my lawyers?

“We are not going to charge you,” the officer surrendered.

“You couldn’t do it even if you wanted to,” Christina hissed. “If I have reasons to drink, it’s not a criminal offense and none of your business.” Matt, are you ready? We are coming home.

Wedding at the expense of the bride October 2012. Los Angeles

Awakening from her thoughts, Christina saw that Matt and Max were playing catch-up among the carts. “I call them M&Ms,” she says about the relationship between her son and her boyfriend. “They are friends, they love to get mad and have fun together.” Matt wouldn't have stuck around with me if he hadn't found a common language with my son, believe me. I was not born to be a decent housewife, but that doesn’t mean I’m a bad mother.”

Christina tried to maintain a civilized relationship with Jordan and accustom her son to the fact that his life is now divided into “mom’s days” and “dad’s days.” “Some might say that it would be better not to get a divorce at all,” says the singer. - But I have my own hard-earned opinion on this matter. My mother endured my father for a long time, who beat her. And I do not claim that living in an atmosphere of unhappiness has brought me very much benefit. A child absorbs everything - both good and bad - like a sponge, so it is better for him to have happy divorced parents who love him and respect each other than to witness constant scandals and tears. Jordan and I are neither angels, but I can't help but admit that he is a wonderful father. Two homes filled with love are better than one in chaos.”

- Guys! - she shouted. - I'm tired and hungry. Who's with me?

- I! I! Where will you take us? — Max hung on his mother’s leg.

“To an Italian restaurant,” answered Christina, a distinguished lover of pizza and pasta, without hesitation.

“My whole career, all I heard was that you should stay thin,” she admits. “They kept telling me that the public wouldn’t listen to a fat singer and that I would let my whole team down if I gained weight.” I don't think this is true. My current figure seems very feminine to me - and, importantly, to Matt. I like to have and show off strong hips, a round butt, and large breasts. If you feel sexy, other people will feel it too. During the recording of the last album, I immediately told my team: “Guys, you are working with a fat singer. You'll have to live through it." Sometimes it’s worth reminding employers that they didn’t buy you completely. My body belongs to me—no one has the right to tell me what it should look like.”

But the main thing that Christina thinks about more and more often is not her appearance, but her wedding with Matt. The problem is that in a year and a half of the affair, he replaced the singer with almost her entire retinue. As much as Christina enjoys the 24-hour attention, she worries that because of her, he has neither a normal job nor his own income and savings. “I would propose to Matt myself and lend him money for a ring,” she shared with friends. “But his male pride will not survive this, and it is important for me that he remains a man.” Christina does not yet know how to solve this problem.

“It’s very easy and calm with Matt,” says the singer. “He never puts on a pose, doesn’t put forward ultimatums and doesn’t create drama. I think he's a strong enough person to handle the Hollywood lifestyle. And he doesn’t have the complexes that forced my ex-husband to limit my freedom. He understands that on a golden chain, in a never-changing routine, I will not have inspiration, which means there will be no life. And it's also important to understand that I'm not going to leave this business, at least not without a fight. I want to be like the great old ladies who, even at 70 years old, go on stage in heels and shiny miniskirts to sing their immortal hits.”

Ekaterina ZHIVOVA, Telenedelya LLC, Moscow (especially for ZN), photo East News, All Over Press

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Christina Aguilera

Real name: Christina Maria Aguilera Born: December 18, 1980 in New York Family: father - Fausto Aguilera, military man; mother - Shelley Kerns, musician; sister - Rachel; half-brother - Michael; son - Max Liron Bratman (4 years old) Education: graduated from high school Career: at the age of 18 she began her professional career as a singer, recording the song “Reflection” for the cartoon “Mulan”. Since 1999, she has released seven studio albums. Winner of four Grammy awards and a star on the Walk of Fame. In 2010, she played the main role in the film “Burlesque”. Since 2011, she has been participating in the American version of the TV show “The Voice.” Since 2004 it has been producing perfumes.

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Christina Aguilera before and after childbirth

The owner of an amazing voice and an inexhaustible desire to apply all the “decorative items” from her cosmetic bag to her face at the same time, Christina Aguilera once again surprised her fans. After living for a couple of years in the image of a plump diva, the girl lost weight again and regained her seductive figure.

At the very beginning of her creative career, in 1999, Christina appeared before the audience in the form of a thin, vocal girl who sang about genie in a bottle and showed off a perfect flat tummy.

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In 2001, when the film “Moulin Rouge” was released, the perky song “Lady Marmalade” was played on every music channel. It was then that Christina’s passion for bright carnival makeup and her crooked legs, may the singer’s fans forgive us, became noticeable.

Then begins the era of piercings (Christina pierced herself in 11 places on her body) and scandalous images. In 2002, Aguilera released the album “Stripped” and the revealing video “Dirrty”, in which you can see the singer’s underwear and her excellent physical shape. Millions of girls around the world were jealous of her figure and stretch.

Skinny Aguilera played the bad girl

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In 2006, along with the release of the album “Back to Basics,” the singer’s style also changed. From a teenager with a bare navel, Aguilera turns into an elegant retro blonde ala Monroe, a lover of stilettos and red lipstick. In two of her most memorable videos, “Ain't No Other Man” and “Candyman,” Christina wears retro outfits, changes her hair color, dances in heels, and seems to look better than in all the other looks before and since.

Aguilera "mowed" under Monroe

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Chris gained extra pounds during pregnancy, but this is forgivable - the expectant mother has to eat for two! Since 2005, Christina has been married to producer Jordan Bratman, and in 2008 she gives birth to his son Max. At the wedding and before pregnancy, Christina showed the same chiseled figure as before - firm breasts, thin waist and rounded hips.

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The expectant mother is rapidly recovering. During pregnancy, Aguilera swells and simplifies her style... 32267

After giving birth, Aguilera goes out in baggy clothes - baby doll tops and loose cardigans. She is trying hard to regain her former slimness, but for now she is limited to only deep necklines, so that the viewer’s attention is focused on the breasts of the nursing mother, and not on her hips.

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Two years after giving birth, the singer returns to the stage with the album “Bionic,” which was coldly received by critics and warmly received by fans. In the “Not Myself Tonight” video, dedicated to sadomasochistic themes, we see the usual Christina - with a strong voice and an ideal figure. The girl looks as good as she did before giving birth. In an interview with an American magazine, she admitted that she lost 18 kg in 4 months through training. Aguilera did fitness 5 days a week for 1.5 hours and completely gave up flour.

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In 2010, Aguilera starred in the film Burlesque, separated from her husband and began dating the film's assistant director Matthew Rutler.

It was worth losing weight for this role!

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Either from stress due to the divorce, or from the assurances of her new boyfriend that he likes her plump figure, Aguilera begins to quickly gain weight. In 2011, Christina became one of the judges of the talent show “The Voice”; she continued to record songs, release personalized perfumes, raise her son, date her boyfriend and... get fat.

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Fans are slowly getting used to the singer’s curvy figure; in her interviews, Christina talks about how she can finally eat whatever she wants and not think about her figure. Although, her image of a princess in “large mesh” tights at the New Year’s carnival 2012 was somewhat shocking...

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However, in the second half of 2013, a miracle happens and the singer begins to lose weight. In six months, Aguilera apparently lost about 25-30 kilograms. The girl does not reveal her secret to losing weight, so doctors and journalists can only guess. Hollywood plastic surgeons claim that Aguilera definitely had liposuction on her abdomen and a breast lift, otherwise her bust would have quickly sagged from such a drastic weight loss. Other sources claim that Aguilera reduced the size of her stomach through surgery and began to eat less. The most optimistic fans claim that Christina simply worked out with heavy weights in the gym, sat on a gentle diet and steamed in the sauna. Be that as it may, we congratulate Christina on her successful weight loss and wish her success in her work!

This is the result!

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