Current Events > Britney Spears gets backlash after Christina Aguilera post. Christina unfollows.

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Pop icon Christina Aguilera has unfollowed Britney Spears on Instagram after she made a controversial statement about the singer-songwriter's body.

EW has confirmed through a source close to the situation that Aguilera made the move Monday, shortly after the latter posted about her former Mickey Mouse Club costar on Instagram in a post that shamed Aguilera and her backup dancers for the size of their bodies.

"I wish I could have chosen the nannies for my children my dancers I mean if I had Christina Aguilera's dancers I would have looked extremely small," Spears wrote in a caption for the post, which included an image that read "I found there was only one way to look thin: Hang out with fat people," attributed to comedian Rodney Dangerfield. "I mean why not talk about it ?? Don't you think my confidence would have been a bit better if I could choose where I lived, ate, whom I called on the phone, dated and who was on stage with me !!!"

"Body shaming others is not the move," wrote one user in a response that garnered nearly 6,000 likes in the post's comment section. Author Julie Murphy who wrote Dumplin', the book that inspired Jennifer Aniston's 2018 movie about a plus-size beauty queen replied, "this ain't it."

On Tuesday (September 13), Britney responded to the backlash on her post and shared, By no means was I being critical of Christinas beautiful body, it is what it is !!! I flew to see her show once and the main thing I noticed was the difference of our people on stage !!! By no means did I even mention Christina, look at my post !!! I was inspired by her show and she is a beautiful woman of power Thank you @xtina for inspiring me !!!

She continued about her post, To be honest, Im not trying to be critical of anybody. What I posted is a projection of the insecurities I deal with all the time as a result of how my parents and the media have treated me I would never intentionally body shame anybody because I know what it feels like I struggle with this because of how I feel about myself, not because I hate how anybody looks I feel like my family knew I was insecure and people were trying to purposefully feed into this insecurity by not letting me have a choice in the people who were on stage with me. I appreciate you all being understanding with me as I figure out this new life Im living !!!

Do you guys think people were right to call out Britney?

She sounds like an absolute moron, but Im trying to figure out if her saying she wishes she had had dancers as big as Christina Aguilera had so shed have looked thinner is actually body shaming or not. Either way, this whole thing is stupid but now its gonna be a publicity opportunity for those two to make amends so I guess we have that to look forward to.

I'm beginning to think people only wanted Britney freed because they wanted the 2007-era Britney drama back. She's certainly delivering.

damn its like im in middle school again

I'm beginning to think people only wanted Britney freed because they wanted the 2007-era Britney drama back. She's certainly delivering.

I cant even imagine the kind of person I would have to be to care about either of these people in 2022.

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leave britney alone

Those two are still considered relevant?

Bro damn. Britney looks like she's a decade older. Meth is a helluva drug.

It's not like she was forbidden from saying stupid shit before she was freed. >_>

Britney had her life ruined by her family. I understand her mental state. She's lashing out at the world because she got fucked over

Her life was already a trainwreck. Which was why she lost control of her own life to begin with.

Britney has been through a lot. She needs to relax on this though.

Britney is a lunatic she has crazy eyes

It sounded like she was talking about Christinas dancers being bigger and not talking about Christinas body at all. But either way its poor taste.