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Christina Aguilera 'Wasn't Comfortable' With Her Hypersexualized Debut Era

Christina Aguilera opened up about how ‘the macho male gaze’ affected her career when she dropped her debut album at age 18 in 1999

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Christina Aguilera ’s self-titled debut album just celebrated its 25th anniversary — and she’s looking back on some of the things she didn’t love about that era. “It definitely was a time to hypersexualize the little girl playing innocent thing,” Aguilera, 43, recalled in a cover interview with Paper magazine published Wednesday, August 28. “I was taught many lessons with [my first album], not only about myself and where I wanted to find joy in music, but when you have that level of success so early on there’s so much disappointment that comes because people change around you,” she told Paper.

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