after readers (and Aguilera, seemingly) interpreted them as body-shaming. After the “Genie In A Bottle” singer unfollowed her on Instagram, Spears took to the medium to explain that after years of scrutiny and insecurity, she's working through her own issues, and may have been inelegant in her expression but never intended harm.“By no means was I being critical of Christina’s 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 wrote.Spears continued, “To be honest, I’m 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.
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