Maybe my perspective is just really skewed today, but I swear that Christina Aguilera looks kind of pregnant to me. But she’s not, I don’t think. She’s just wearing a bad dress that has too much fabric in the bodice, which makes her look heavier. These are photos from a Television Critics Association event, likely one of the many media events that NBC organized for their 2012 lineup – the same event where Jessica Simpson out-preggo’d everyone, forever. Christina actually looks… better? Better than how she’s looked the past few months. At this event, Christina looked sober (sober-ish), and while the dress is probably too low-cut for this kind of event, everything is in its place and everything fits, which is an improvement. That horrible drag queen makeup kills my soul, though. Ugh. Anyway, People Magazine has an interesting piece where Christina is once-again defending her new fuller figure:
Christina Aguilera knows what it takes to stand tall in the glare of the spotlight.
“You got to be a strong, powerful, very confident woman,” she told PEOPLE at a Television Critics Association event for The Voice, which returns to NBC Feb. 5 after the Super Bowl.
The mentor, who coached Beverly McClellan to the show’s first season finale, says that it’s especially difficult for women in the entertainment business.
“Women, we are definitely under a microscope and under massive scrutiny,” Aguilera, 31, said. “As long as I am happy in my own skin, that is all that is all the confirmation I need.”
But, she adds, it’s nice to have approval of the one she loves, including her beau, Matt Rutler. “I have a boyfriend that loves my body,” she says. “I love my body, my son is healthy and happy and that is all that matters.”
Her message of “being comfortable in my own skin” and taking risks “whether it be crazy cotton candy hair or interesting theatrical makeup” is something Aguilera wants to pass on to her upcoming protégés on season 2 of The Voice.
“Being in a position to coach these young women, I am happy to be able to share that with them and share my highs and lows,” she says. “Being on the show, it’s a very good outlet for me.”
[From People]
The message: it’s all good because I have a boyfriend and he is attracted to me. The subtext: My boyfriend gets paid to hold my hair back when I’m praying to the porcelin Gods after I’ve had too much to drink, which is every night. I do love the way Christina describes herself though – “crazy cotton candy hair or interesting theatrical makeup” – that’s one of the better spins I’ve ever heard. Much better than my version, “busted wiglet and clown makeup.” But if she’s happy, God bless. I’m tired of yelling at her. She’ll end up in rehab one day, and then we’ll hear about how she just had to drink so much because she secretly hated her body.
Photos courtesy of Fame.
Umm, she has a pretty face and a great voice? Those are the only positives I can come up with.
Um…is it just me, or do you guys see the TRACK MARKS and BRUISES on her inner arms in the 3rd photo???
Def see the bruise… thought maybe it was from a blood draw? Don’t see the track marks though….
Bruise on one arm, two tracks (one right above the other) on her other arm. Oh Christina…
I see bruises on each arm and a track mark.
I’m not sure her boobs are in the right place in this dress…
My thoughts exactly.
If she loves her body could she at least dress it better?
Ha!
Bwaa!
I can understand her loving her body, but that doesn’t mean that she has to subject the world to her jiggly bits on stage.
Ok is it just me or does it look like she has track marks on her arms in the third pic???
I thought the same thing – but users wouldn’t show off their marks, they’d hide them. I’m thinking she had blood taken.
Maybe her ex is having her drug tested?
Yes, totally. At that crook of her elbow. Not a lot of heavy smackheads, though- they are usually bony.
I see bruises on both arms and a track mark on one. She is likely not hiding her arms because she is wasted or high.
See–I thought that too!! Those are definitely bruises from needles; I’d think she would put some concealer over them, or wear longer sleeves or something. Hmm.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed that.
I also thought the marks on her arms looked wrong, I read the Daily Mail version of this story earlier today and she looked like she had strange bruising on there too, I had put it down to bad shadows and dodgy fake tan, but now….. I hope it’s pretty innocent for her sake
It looks like an inexperienced technician tried to draw blood on the left arm and poked through the vein, then had to switch to the other arm. It’s happened to me before, and the bruising really is that bad. I wonder why she’s getting her blood checked though? If she’s happy and healthy… maybe it was for a pregnancy test.
Happens to me all of the time — I have wiggly, microscopic veins — and even experienced techs miss them. As a result, I look like a junkie every time I get a blood test. Ironically, my doctor laughs that illicit IV drug use is out for me since I’d be 90 by the time I actually got a hit.
That’s happened to me before. They always have to use ‘baby needles’ on me which seem to hurt much more for some reason. The worst is if the phlebotomist doesn’t angle the needle correctly and bounces off of the vein wall. That happened to me once before meeting a study group back in the day. I have less than no problems with needles or my own blood, but I swear that in that moment I saw Jesus and that bruise took up half of my forearm. She was inexperienced, so she proceeded to do the same thing to the other arm, with identical results. Another time, she flat out missed and I could feel her moving that instrument around inside of me, like you would do with a flashlight looking for a specific item in a very dark attic. It’s an interesting thing when you’re meekly asked to sign documents allowing someone to continue stabbing you. after some failed attempts she just had to bring in someone more experienced to do it. I got a lot of the ‘drugs, drugs, drugs–which are good, which are bad?’ stares and my friends pretended not to believe me when I protested that had been mangled by science, not tripping on blue cylinder juice. My study notes left a lot to be desired for a few days.
She doesn’t look healthy, just not as bad as usual. Almost every pic I see of her she is wasted. That’s not someone who is happy.
She definitely looks less bloated and trashy. I don’t like the dress so much, but it’s better than that skintight crap. I do think it’s great that she can love her heavier figure, but now it’s time to learn how to DRESS IT.
I think she thought that this dress helped hide her fat…She does look less bloated and drunk…I wonder if she was the celeb in the blind who went to the AA meeting on Xmas? hmmmm….
Exactly what I was about to post! If I remember correctly, the BI mentioned alcohol was not her only problem.
I hope so. I wouldn’t want to find out that she lost it through a cocaine and cayenne pepper diet, or something.
I believe her talk.
Why shouldn’t a woman be happy with her body, even if it isn’t a size zero?
I’m a size 12 and I’m perfectly content with my body, and so is my man.
To maintain a smaller size would require me to work out hours a day and eat like a bird–you only live once and I’m not spending my life like THAT!!
I’m not one of those people who thinks bikini’s, leggings and skinny jeans are reserved for a certain body type. I don’t discriminate like that. If she’s happy in leggings or maxi dresses and feels good then more power to her!!
I think she’s a lovely girl and I’m sure she’s a fantastic mom.
Good man, good kid, good gig, great talent..
The only thing that could make it better is if a bunch of petty women hiding behind their computers didn’t make unkind remarks about her and her body.
I love your post. I feel the same way.
I second the praise for this post! I agree!
Me too. Christina probably wants to enjoy life, not have to eat like a sparrow to maintain her early 20’s pre-pregnancy weight. My cousin who is a model told me, “You have to go around a little bit hungry all the time.” No thanks!
While I agree with you lets face it if she was a size zero you wouldn’t be making this comment people would be saying she need to eat a hamburger people should be happy in what ever size they are big or small as long as it healthy even if we don’t personally like thier size.
I ca’t say if Christina weight is healthy because I don’t know her but she has been drinking ALOT (from the many photos of her drunk) and that when she started to gain all this weight.
I don’t know about everyone else here, but I would feel the same way about the original poster’s comment if Christina was a size zero or not. I’ve been on both ends of the weight spectrum, and neither of them are fun.
When I was younger, I did gymnastics and dance and weighed about 85 pounds. Even in my early twenties, I was barely over a hundred pounds. People would mean girl me about my weight all the time; claiming I had eating disorders and giving me the obligatory calls to “eat a sandwhich”. I was also accused of having fake boobs on many occasions because people can’t seem to deal with the idea of a skinny girl with a naturally large rack. I know skinny girls get dumped on by society at large just as much as overweight ones do.
Fast forward a few years and a few injuries later, and I have a slower metabolism combined with a serious car accident last year that had me in physical therapy for months. I am now definitely into overweight territory. I work in an entertainment related job where I am often judged on my appearance, and it hurts a lot to know that I’m losing out on job offers because I’m not 100 pounds anymore.
So, I feel for everybody that struggles with their weight. Whether you are 105 pounds or 155 pounds, there will always be someone who thinks you’re too skinny or too fat. If you can come to terms with that and love yourself for more than what the scale says, I say more power to you! No matter what size you may be.
Well said. She looks fine. Hell, she looks like I do & plenty of women like me are happy with our figures.
AMEN!
After reading the first few comments, I was getting discouraged at the amount of venom and judgmental insults….Thank you for saying what I was thinking, LIFE is too short to spend it being petty and hypocritical or working out like crazy and not enjoying decadent cuisine! (Unless of course that’s what you like)-Why do women think to be so mean to other women?
I know, they are just opinions-and everyone is entitled to their own–but please…you get what you give & should remember that the next time you can’t zip up your pants!
Well, I have noticed that a lot of celebs “look great” ” thin” when in fact they were in a bad time in their lives, or unhappy – be it life or most often a relationship.
Then they get happy and gain weight, and believe me I totally understand.
When I was depressed, sad ..pounds melted off .. especially after my LTR breakup.
It’s ok to gain weight but it’s hard to stop and not go overboard .. I hope she doesn’t go the way of Carnie Wilson, Kirstie Alley.. then it’s really bad.
Well said.
Agreed and I’m with you. Love to cook, love to eat and drink good wine…refuse to diet and be a bitch due to low blood sugar and starvation for the REST OF MY LIFE (which is actually what happens to me) LOL
She looks more bloated than fat, especially in her face. There have been many pics since her divorce in which she has looked absolutely wasted out of her mind, and since alcohol has lots of calories I think it would be more realistic to blame her weight gain on a high alcohol intake rather than food.
I don’t mind that she’s gained weight. We all do, after a certain age, especially if you don’t exercise daily. But this weight gain doesn’t look like the natural weight gain/body change women go through in their late twenties/early thirties. It looks like alcohol bloat. That is not healthy or anything to be proud of.
That’s the thing: she doesn’t look healthy, like she’s gained adult weight, she looks bloated and sloppy.
If she’d just tone up, even, stop drinking so much, and for godsakes, STOP lathering on so much clown makeup, she might have a good style!
“I’m not one of those people who thinks bikini’s, leggings and skinny jeans are reserved for a certain body type”
See, I’m one of those people that does. If you’re comfortable with and/or love your body, then I think that’s fabulous. At the same time, I don’t applaud someone with fat rolls donning a bikini. Like it or not, certain clothing (or lack thereof) looks better on certain body types. The dude with the furry back and shoulders might be perfectly comfortable in his t-back wife beater, but the rest of us don’t need to see that.
Then turn your head the other way and don’t look.
Cool you tits, it’s just a bit of pudge. Not everyone dresses to please you, shock horror!
Acting like a martyr because someone is wearing too tight clothing is the most ridiculous thing.
Personally, I love it when big ‘uns squeeze themselves into leggings, “skinny” jeans & bikinis. I admire their confidence/completely not giving a sh*t) and it amuses me to no end. People of all sizes can dress to flatter, it’s just funnier when they don’t.
I agree completely with B. I’m no oil painting, but I also don’t want to see some cow spilling out of a spaghetti strap tank just because SHE is okay with it. Have some self respect! Next time you are subjected to something that offends you, someone else’s assertion that you look the other way may not seem so satisfactory.
I wonder why she still has the tattoo for her ex-husband. I guess I would have thought she would have it removed or covered by now.
I was wondering about the significance of that tattoo.
I think she doesn’t care anymore and she is still around only for money and becouse she has some obligations. She lost passion for music and this business. It’s sad becouse she is really talented but somehow it’s not enough and doesn’t work anymore. She knows that and she doesn’t even try to please anybody. I feel sorry for her but maybe she will find new way for herself. She is still very young and it’s not too late for her.
She kind of looks decorated. Like a Christmas tree.
I really don’t care if she thin or plus size or in between, I just wish she dress better I mean really she giving plus size woman a bad rep with the legging like plus size woman can only fit into leggings SO NOT TRUE.
She needs a bra, but other than that, she looks good. Glad she’s happy after a year of turmoil.
That hair kills my soul.. O_O
Her body is fine. Her hair is the problem. she seriously needs to cut it and do something with he color. she would look so much better. You can fix hair. Fix it!
She might love her body but her body is begging for mercy. She needs some education on health and fitness. When did it become cool to be fat? Not good for the heart or mind. Diabetes is her future.
Who is she trying to convince here? Us or herself? I don’t think so many actually have anything against her body, only the way she dresses it. And she dresses it like she was size 0 so in the end, I guess she’s just trying to convince her own self that she’s okay with her body when she really is not.
Honey, you have a boyfriend who loves you for your money. He’ll tell you he loves your body know matter what it looks like as long as you keep supporting him.
Haha, I was also going to reply “girl, you have a boyfriend that loves your MONEY, you love your BOOZE”.
this x 10. That man’s just no good. He wouldn’t be with her if she was an average woman with an average wage and an average house.
That is exactly what I was thinking as soon as I read the headline!
Don’t believe it. The amount of makeup and alcohol bloat just invalidates all of her comments about self acceptance and happiness.
Lets cue it up to three years later when she’s schilling Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig talking about how she loves her new body and was miserable while being heavier.
Exactly what I was thinking…Jennifer Hudson a few years ago..,”I love my body this size” and today “I love my new body”…Jennifer Love Hewitt, I’m fine with my “curves” then she slims down and loves her body…I could go on and on….lets face it, most women want to be thin and most of these celebrities just say the “politically correct” statement so as not to have people come down on them for making over weight girls feel bad about themselves…I used to be thin and since menopause hit I have gained like 25 pounds…I don’t like it, dosen’t mean I don’t like myself…
For the most part, I agree. But there’s also a chance that people can love their body (or anyone’s body) in varying states of weight.
It’s my belief that– as long as health isn’t compromised– there’s no such thing as an ideal body weight. So, I’m glad there is this “politically correct” notion of not making overweight girls feel bad about themselves.
After all, there are worse things to be than overweight.
This look is better for her weight. Her weight is not an issue in the sense that she’s over 30 and things are different. However, I find it interesting that she never mentions her substance abuse issues and depressing that her first thought was of her boyfriend liking her body and her son occurred to her as an afterthought. Weight is not her problem- self centeredness, substance abuse, and an ugly personality are. And it sucks that she treated her ex-husband so badly when everyone knows he was SO good to her.
Some people wear make-up like armour, and she has always struck me as one of those people. I hope she really IS happy, because I honestly think she is beautiful and talented, even though I’d style her differently if I had my way with her.
I’m not a fan of Clown Christina at all, but am getting tired of the constant talk about Celeb’s weight. Too fat, too thin, its their body, stop criticizing. Be happy with your body and leave everyone else’s alone.
The first thing I noticed were the bruises and track marks…oh dear….
The bruises are from knocking into stuff when she’s drunk.
I could see that if she had bruises on her legs, but who walks into things with their inner arm(s) / crook of their elbow(s).
She needs to remove the implants. They are horrible. She’s not fat, but the way she dresses doesn’t help her much. The dress she’s wearing here is an improvement, though. Now she needs to darken her hair, get better extensions and scrub off some of that paint from her face.
Awful, awful, awful. Nothing is attractive about this look, and her weight has nothing to do with how bad she looks here.
I think she looks fabulous. We all have our ups and downs in life and I guess that goes along with weight for some. Although I don’t always agree with what she wears (emphasize your assets, ladies) she looks gorgeous in this. Love her eyes!
No one who claims to be that happy and comfortable with herself wears THAT much make-up or drinks as much.
those are definitely track marks.
I saw these pics on Dlisted yesterday and I couldn’t believe she goes out of the house with no bra on. What is it with these celebrities and their vendetta against proper boobie support?! I have large boobies and there is no way Id ever leave the house in an outfit like that with flimsy straps and my girls unsupported and just hanging down. It hurts my back just looking at that! And I think she preaches on about how much she loves her new figure too loudly, it just shows insecurity.
Yes! I can’t stand not wearing a bra. I’m a d cup now, and I haven’t gone out of the house without a bra since before I hit puberty. Too self conscious, and I need to be supported. I don’t have too much back issues with it… but I just can’t feel comfortable without a bra!
“I have a boyfriend WHO loves my MONEY, I love my FOOD” there, fixed.
I have liked her, um, new body from the start. The hair and makeup and spray-tan that she puts with it don’t do it any favors though. If she’s gonna be all out and proud about being voluptuous, I hope she soon learns that it doesn’t mean she has to be Mae West and/or vaguely silent-movie-it-girl-esque-with-raunch-on-top, and that her bodaciousness might in fact fare better with a lot less of that sheeit.
I have no problem with her actual weight; I only have an issue with her not DRESSING for her current weight. She’s dressing like she’s still a size 2. That coupled with the clown-like makeup makes her look terrible.
She has obvious track marks from some kind of needle in the crook of her elbows. Could be from a doctor, of course. But maybe not. Anyway, good for her but she really does look terrible.
The Aguilera is kind of a cautionary tale for those of us who are the same height and weight as her from her Genie in a Bottle (or even Stripped) days: careful with what you overindulge in, and exercise regularly because good genes can only carry you so far. Petite one day, gone the next.
Weighing in (heh) here on a couple of points. The first being the argument that the quite thin get as much flak as the overweight do. That is simply not true.Period. I have fluctuated in my life and at my heaviest was a size 10 and around 160 (I am 5’7). I was not mocked or jeered at for my weight, however I was subject to stupid comments about being a “bigger girl, and owning it!” and the like. As my weight reduced, i was praised for getting “healthier” (though no doctor had ever mentioned or implied that I was in any way unhealthy). A stress period left me quite thin, around 118 lbs. Yes, I received concerned comments, but far more frequent were comments of envy. At that weight my BMI was just teetering on dangerously underweight. The compliments were more effective than the concern and the will to gain weight is impacted by this. Ok, it’s not all about me I know. With regards to this woman and so many others in the spotlight, it really pisses me off when people make faux concerned statements about their health. Fucking Please. Drinking, drugs, those are legit concerns. But a woman who is a bit more plump than she once was is a health hazard? WTF. She is not clinically overweight at all and neither are the majority of her peers subject to these comments. She has ALWAYS dressed badly, whoever finds it hard to look at extra flesh needs to fucking get out more. I can visualize these types as self-righteous plain-janes in safe Gap separates and blandly highlighted hair..they gather for pussy drinks once a week with their fellow peahens and feel smugly secure that they are doing their part for mankind by blending in. Meanwhile their partner is banging the blowsy peroxide blonde from the office with the nice fat ass. Sorry ladies, the true offense is you.
I’ve never been overly skinny. I was at a pretty much ideal weight until I part way through high school but I still weighed more than a lot of my friends who were super tiny. Now that I’m on my fourth year of college I’m at my heaviest, and I had always thought of myself as fat when I was actually fit in junior high. I’m sure some skinny girls do get dumped on for being skinny. But when I was thin I was still considered chunky by a lot of people because my peers were so damn tiny in comparison. And I’m 5’2″ which really doesn’t help balance weight, I suppose. But it was never the girls that were underweight that got ragged on- it was the normal weight and up that did. The super skinny girls were admired and had more boys after them- and that’s how it still is now that I’m 21. Skinny girls are envied, and adored.
One girl who is ridiculously skinny at school (she’s a ‘model’ *eyeroll*) is the first skinny girl that I’ve ever heard get made fun of (and that was behind her back). But honestly- for the most part it’s because she’s a vapid idiot, though her weight does get brought up. And honestly, I’d rather get made fun of for being thin than for being fat. The media has conditioned me to prefer that.
Exactly!
Yeah. It’s never fun to be ridiculed for weight and though it happens to people of all sizes, I’m inclined to believe that someone who says that extremely thin people face the same amount of grief from losers as overweight people is fishing for validation or humble-bragging because that’s just too deluded to even be conceiveable to me. To me, it’s the difference between thinking that ‘in every life a little rain must fall and this is the unfortune storm that I must weather’ and insisting that hot snow is falling up all over the world without even checking the forecast. People are frequently out of line when it comes to bodies of others and knowing this makes it easier to empathize with someone else’s story surrounding that, whatever the traits that are attacked may be. When it comes to insecurities about your own body or what cruel things people say about it, that’s your hell and other people’s experiences–even if they are drastically different on the superfical level don’t negate your personal pain. But a little tete-a-tete with reality is in important, because it’s not as if the whole world order is being subverted because of one remark about ‘real women’. Bullying sucks, but it’s not an even playing field, it just isn’t.
Alejandro…echo.
A face only a mother could love.
i am thin but in a healthy way. i eat and work out, i have a good balance. in high school i was extremely skinny, due only to a high metabolism. i was asked on a daily basis if i had an eating disorder. literally a daily basis. that was offensive not only to me but to people who actually do have eating disorders. this is not an issue to be casually addressed the same way you might ask someone where they bought their shoes or which television shows they like to watch. body speculation, regardless of the subjects “fat” or “skinny” body type, is offensive and demeaning. all of us are worth so much more than our physical appearances and reducing smart/funny/talented/innovative/whatever your special qualities may be to your weight and bmi is just depressing.
So true I’ve never commented on a celebrities or non- celebroties weight because one I don’t know them to personally to say weather it’s healthy or not and two because I just don’t care about that.
Now I do comment of how they dress because I believe you should always dress for your size because it make you feel better about yourself and how you look.
I agree, the dress is not that great, a bit too fluffy and full, but it looks better on her than the skintight clothing she wears. She is definitely on the heavy side, plus her makeup is always too dramatic and always looks about the same. I’m getting tired of the red lips on her and the same dark eyeliner and false lashes look on the pale skin. There is a way to dress that flatters your curves. You can still look sexy yet avoid the overly tight and skanky look. I agree with what someone said, that if she’s so secure and in love with her body, she needn’t say anything unless she’s trying to counteract weight rumors.
She must be dating Stevie Wonder, and it’s cold in her place so he has to wear mittens all the time.
it all makes sense.
meow.
It’s great she’s at peace with her body, and the dress is pretty enough, but there’s no excuse for those boobs to be displayed in such a floppy, saggy state. Girl, get those puppies under control!
so true. always on the defensive, this one.
She says that now. As soon as she loses some weight it will be a different story.
Well, she has a lot more body to love.
well maybe because it keeps being brought up where ever she goes? perhaps because she knows the scrutiny women are under and wants to put it out there for other women and girls who have issues with their body that its ok and they should love themselves? maybe because she just wants to say it? i dunno, pick one!
“I have a boyfriend who loves my body” You see, what she really meant was “I have a boyfriend who loves my money” but she was slurring her words because she was drunk. Also: Hello back rolls! Girl. I’m done with you.
I’m starting not to be able to tell her and her mother aprart. Turn back around girl nobody needs to see the folds in your back.
Dude. If you think she’s a ridiculous bitch than call her one. Ragging on her body is so sophomoric and screams of personal insecurity. It’s depressing that chicks will do each other like this.
If she is happy that is all that matters. Why is it such a big deal she gained weight anyways? I don’t see male stars who gain weight getting so much negative attention. I say leave her alone, quit picking on her.