Revealed at 12 years old in the American show “The Mickey Mouse Club”, Christina Aguilera launched her brand of lubricants, “Playground”, whose products aim to improve the sexual health of women. In an interview for Allure magazine, published on Tuesday March 28, the singer returned to this new project and her early career, evoking the comments of “older businessmen” about her body and her sexuality.
“It’s a no-brainer for me to do this,” Christina Aguilera told the magazine. Allure, this Tuesday, March 28. The singer co-founded the lubricant brand, “Playground”, in 2022. “I’ve always wanted women to feel comfortable and safe enough to explore what makes them feel good. (.. .) The vagina goes through a lot, so we have to let it feel good. We have to make sure we pamper it and nurture it. If I can allow other women to have the courage to go out or get explore, then I would have done the job,” she said.
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“In this job, you will be confronted with many opinions”
The idea is to improve the sexual health of women, by giving them back the power over their pleasure and their image. Power of which Christina Aguilera was dispossessed for a time. While she has been performing in shows since the age of “six or seven”, the artist was revealed at the age of 12 on the American show “The Mickey Mouse Club”. She is quickly sexualized by the music industry and becomes a sex symbol in spite of herself at the start of her career.
“In this business, you are going to be faced with many opinions about your body, your sexuality, what is too much or not enough. Most of these opinions come from older men and business people, which is not has nothing to do with your body and the image you have of yourself”, she described, regretting: “I was not giving creative messages that really embodied who I was.”
But, at 42, and with the experience that is hers, Christina Aguilera has asserted herself over the course of her projects and hopes, through her brand, to be able to communicate her knowledge to other women: “It’s also part of my personal journey, my progress as a mother and the education of my daughter (Summer, born in 2014; editor’s note) This is why it is so important for me to pass on the experience I acquired while growing up in this sector (the music industry, the middle of the showbusiness; editor’s note) when I was his age. I guess that’s the reason why, at 21, I decided to take back my power over my body and to set boundaries.”
“To be a woman apart from the ideals of others”
Thus, while she rejects her image as a pop singer intended for the adolescent public, Christina Aguilera indeed decides to mark a real revival by releasing, in 2002, her album “Stripped”, which could be translated as “naked, stripped “. She produces her project herself and co-writes most of the songs. “People always thought that title had a sexual connotation, but it was more about telling the truth about how I felt, embracing my body and being a woman outside of other people’s ideals. From songs like ‘Beautiful’ to ‘Dirrty’ to ‘Fighter’, it’s about different emotions of being a woman, and it’s all things I’ve embraced.”
“I feel like it’s a new beginning,” the singer told the TV channel. MTV, at the time of the release of this album. She then presented it as “a reintroduction as a new artist in a way, because for the first time people really see me and get to know me”.
“I wrote this song to heal myself”
In “Stripped”, Christina Aguilera also signed the ballad “I’m OK”, where she evokes her childhood and her father, whom she accused of having been violent with herself and her mother, before the couple don’t end up divorcing. “It’s such a taboo subject because it happens at home,” the singer said. “I wrote this song not to denigrate him, but to heal myself and to give people hope or a voice to relate to. Knowing that you can get through this and you’ll be fine “.
Christina Aguilera is far from being the only singer revealed very young to have suffered from the decisions of businessmen on her career and on her image. The case of Britney Spears, also a former member of Club Mickey, is instructive. Invited by a Boston radio, AMP, in the program “The TJ Show”, in 2013, the interpreter of “Toxic” admitted to having been under pressure from the producers, who always wanted her sexier: “Yes, we pushes to project a more sexual image than I would like.” And to clarify: “There is a lot of sex in what I do. But sometimes, I would like to go back to the good old days, when we wore the same outfit during the whole clip, we danced during the whole clip and that “There weren’t as many sexual overtones. I’d like to do a video that’s centered around dancing and being myself.”
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