In a recent interview Christina Aguilera candidly opens up about pressure from the music industry to stay pencil thin.
Christina Aguilera has hit back at record label bosses for pressuring her to lose weight, saying that she wouldn’t be successful if she had a fuller figure.
The 31-year-old singer – currently a judge on the American reality Talent show ‘The Voice’ – was warned that if the ‘Genie in a Bottle’ hitmaker didn’t slim down, nobody will buy her music and by 2006, she was at her lightest.
“During the promotion of my album Stripped, I got tired of being a skinny, white girl,” the Mirror quoted her, as telling Billboard magazine.
“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. They called this serious emergency meeting about how there was a lot of backlash about my weight,” she said.
She said that the bosses told her that she would affect a lot of people if she 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.
“I was young, so I lost the weight quickly and was toothpick thin during Back to Basics promos and touring,” she said.Jacked from Zee News
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