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Christina Aguilera Recalls Facing ‘Backlash’ When She Released ‘Dirrty’ in 2002: ‘I Felt Incredibly Empowered’

Christina Aguilera spoke at the Bare It All Event on Monday, June 9 about facing backlash after releasing her 2002 song "Dirrty."

"I remember, just releasing my Stripped album, I faced quite a bit of backlash with my song 'Dirrty,'" Aguilera, 44, said during a fireside panel, which was moderated by Tamsen Fadal, alongside Halle Berry. "And for me, I felt incredibly empowered and owning my body and expressing myself the way I wanted to and not fitting this weird label-driven, pop bubble manufacturer, robotic thing that I knew I wasn't." Aguilera, who shares son Max Liron, 16, with ex-husband Jordan Bratman and daughter Summer Rain, 10, with fiancé Matt Rutler, told PEOPLE back in 2021 that she still has her chaps from the "Dirrty" music video.

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