Christina Aguilera: I'm Fat, Deal With It!

Christina Aguilera has been getting a lot of attention for her booty-ful figure these days, and she's the farthest thing from apologetic about any weight gain. In fact, the "Your Body" singer proudly calls herself a "fat girl."

"During the promotion of my album Stripped [in 2002], I got tired of being a skinny, white girl," Aguilera, one of The Voice's fab four, tells Billboard in a new interview. "I am Ecuadorian but people felt safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl." "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." "Basically, they told me I would affect a lot of people if I gained weight - the production, musical directors - that 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." But now, she says she's done with all that: "I told them during Lotus [her new album], 'You are working with a fat girl. Know it 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. My body is not on the table that way." With a smash hit in The Voice, a steady boyfriend in Matt Rutler and her new album and single proving she's still got it as a solo artist, whatever her weight, we say go Xtina!