Just last year, she opened up about her iconic “Dirrty” era and the mayhem she caused with her risqué looks during that time.
“I was just so into not conforming,” she told Vogue in October 2022. “I wanted the over-the-top look.”
She continued, “It was very much at the time something that never would have been accepted on a red carpet, but that was part of my love of the rebelliousness of knowing that it offended certain people, people that were like ‘how could she?'”
For Christina, stepping away from her previous good-girl image gave her a sense of freedom that she hadn’t felt before.
“I wanted this album to embrace every different part of being a woman,” she explained of her Stripped style. “From feeling empowered and strong, owning my sexuality, and not from what a guy thinks it should be. There’s such a rule book that we need to look a certain way, act a certain way, be sexy but not too sexy, be a good girl, but not too good, because that’s boring.”
