Christina Aguilera Admits She Got Fat and Put On Fake Tanner to Feel More Latina
When revolutionaries want to make a statement, theyve sometimes turned to hunger strikes to make their point. When Christina Aguilera wanted to prove to her record label and the world that she wasnt just some skinny white girl, she slathered herself in fake tanner and stocked up on chalupas, tacos and whatever else was on the late night menu at Taco Bell in a bid to reclaim her Latina heritage.
Or at least thats the story she told Billboard magazine.
In her cover story with the music magazine, Christina recounts how her ethnic transformation didnt go over so well with her record label.
During the promotion of my album Stripped, 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. So the next time my label saw me I was heavier, darker and full of piercings! [laughter] Let me tell you, that wasnt an easy pill for them to swallow. I had gained about 15 pounds during promotion and during my Stripped tour with Justin.
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 people I toured with would ALSO miss out if I gained weight because I would sell no records or tickets for my shows.
I was young, so I lost the weight quickly and was toothpick thin during Back to Basics promos and touring. So 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 dont BELONG to them its my body. My body cant put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore- My body is just not on the table that way anymore. I am 31 my boobs are Maxs and my pussy is mine Sorry.
Just to give you a visual reminder of Christinas tanner, bulkier look, heres a shot of Xtina from her 2003 Stripped tour:
By touting her weight gain and fake tan as badges of her Latina honor, Christina is cementing her title as one of the most racially confused pop stars in history, second perhaps only to Mariah Carey.
Being fat and dark-skinned is not emblematic of the Latina experience. Latino, as has been explained ad nauseum, is not a race, its a culture.
There are Latinos of all hues and races (white, black, native American and even Asian), so her slathering on fake tanner in 2003 doesnt make her more Ecudaorian. It makes her the prototype for Snooki.
Lets pause for a minute about Christina reminding her record label that her pussy is hers. If thats really how she feels, then why the hell is she always shoving her vagina in the publics face?
She even dedicated the song Woo Hoo to nothing but her vagina on her last album Bionic. Even worse, she went onstage at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards and put a light-up heart on her love muffin for a performance of the song.
Most people would love to do nothing more than MOVE ON from Christinas vagina. Shes the one who insists on dragging the issue out.
So she can point the finger back at herself on that matter, not her record label. But lets go back to the idea Christina raised of fatness and Latinahood being inherently intertwined.
Casually linking an overweight state as a natural byproduct of being Latino is not only insulting, its moronic. Especially considering the fact that she doesnt even have to reach back to her fathers Ecuadorian roots to get in touch with her fat genes, since her white Irish-American mother, Shelly Kearns, is no wispy ballerina herself.
Christinas latest attempt to distance herself from her whiteness is another desperate plea for a hood pass. She seems to think shell earn real street cred by dissing her whiteness and embracing her Latinaness. Even worse, its not the first time she has pulled this stunt.
Back in 2002, Christina blabbed to Rolling Stone that she wasnt really into white boys and preferred ethnic men with flava. Ladies and gents, have your vomit bags handy for this doozy of a quote:
Christina Aguilera has made a confession sure to disappoint some of her male fans shed rather not date white guys. I want the boy! s with th! e flava! Hes got to have some flava and edge to him, the pop tart tells the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone.
Christina who appears topless on the cover of her new album Stripped also blasts actress Jennifer Love Hewitt for her penchant for Caucasian men.
She wants a bunch of white boys I dont want . . . I would scare the s- - out of her if she came to one of my sleepovers, she says.
The funny thing is, after talking all that trash, Christina ended up marrying Jordan Bratman, a vanilla, safe, white Jewish man. So shes nothing but big, fat fraud with a big, fat mouth.
Can we stage an intervention for this chick? Her identity crisis is worse than Nicki Minajs multiple personas.
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