Christina’s Rules for Dating

Aug 29, 2018 | 6:30 AM

In a new cover story for Cosmopolitan, Christina Aguilera explains why she would never date another famous person.

“I’ve had opportunities, but it isn’t my style to date another person in the business,” she says. “There’s gotta be something wrong with you if you want to be in this business. I mean, hi! I definitely have my issues. I think that I can only handle one [celebrity] in the relationship, and I need to be it.”

That strategy seems to be working out well for her so far. She’s been engaged to Matthew Rutler since 2010 and the two share a four-year-old daughter, Summer Rain. Christina also has a 10-year-old son Max from her first marriage to Jordan Bratman.

Christina also opens up to the mag about how she was pitted against Britney Spears back in her early 2000s Stripped era, when she unveiled her sexy “Xtina” persona.

“It’s hard to hear yourself being called names,” she says. “I remember being hurt by these commercials on MTV, pitting Britney as the good girl and me as the bad girl. It’s like, if I’m going to be demure and innocent, that’s okay. But if I’m going to just be myself, I’m trouble.”

Aguilera’s 2002 single “Dirrty” was at the center of the controversy with its music video featuring the singer in risqu outfits. “I love the female body, and I think it’s something to be proud of, not something that men should dictate ownership of,” Aguilera explained about women owning their bodies and just being themselves.

“‘Dirrty’ was extremely controversial at the time, but it would be nothing now,” she continued. “I hope I paved the way and helped set the ground rules that women can be any version of themselves they wanna be…and proud of it.”

This time around, with her Liberation album and upcoming tour, she says she’s “stripping back a lot and just trying to find myself again.”

She says of the tour, “[I] want to do something completely unexpected from a pop-formatted show – a fresh perspective that I’ve never done – super creative, super interesting.”

The tour kicks off September 25th in Hollywood, Florida.

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