Christina Aguilera has been receiving a lot of attention regarding her new curvier body and a report came out on Monday stating that Aguilera said she enjoys being fat and that she grew "tired of being a skinny white girl" in an interview with Billboard magazine. The only problem with that is the singer never made those remarks.
"She never said them," Aguilera's rep tells EW, referring to the body-related quotes many outlets attribute to the Billboard interview.
In the first reports released, some of the quotes include Aguilera falsely saying that ""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... [In 2002,] 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. Basically, they told me I would effect [sic] a lot of people if I 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 [2006's] Back to Basics promos and touring."
"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 don't belong to them. It's my body. My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore."
These quotes are nowhere to be found on the online version of the Billboard story. Entertainment Weekly traces the made-up comments back to a post that got reblogged a lot on Tumblr. The below was published Friday to the site severelycalm.tumblr.com, and cites Billboard as a source.
