It’s officially been 25 years since Christina Aguilera ’s debut single “Genie In The Bottle” hit radio stations and became one of the biggest earworms of 1999 and the Y2K era (which is all the rage with celebs like Jessica Biel these days). Along with continuing to be a massive global pop star, Aguilera is also now a 43-year-old mother of two who has gained perspective on what it’s like to have a lot of eyeballs and opinions about her and her body. When Aguilera first landed on the scene with her debut album, she was an 18-year-old who became known for wearing midriff-baring crop tops and low rise jeans that we saw all over the best 2000s movies about teens.
As her body changed with time (which is completely normal) in front of the world, she recalls dealing with backlash. As she recently shared with Glamour : When you’re a teenager, you have a very different body than when you’re in your 20s. I started to fill out, and then that was unacceptable because it was like, ‘Oh, she’s getting thicker.
’ Then I had industry people: ‘They liked your body and how you were as a skinny teenager.’ Unfortunately for the 2000s, if you were to look back inside the pages of tabloids, you’d see stories measuring a size 6 as “fat” or commenting on the cellulite of young stars like Lindsay Lohan , Hilary Duff , and Jessica Simpson . Nowadays those stars are owning their body for how they are.
Duff for instance posed nude on Women’s Health in 2022 and proclaimed how.
