Christina Aguilera: I didn’t think I’d get pregnant so quickly

Christina Aguilera has revealed she didn’t plan to get pregnant while still on her world tour but everything happened quicker than they anticipated.

Christina’s baby, her first child with husband Jordan Bratman, is due in the New Year and she told Marie Claire recently: “We were planning on starting to try after the [Back to Basics] tour. And so, I had gone off the Pill to prepare my body, because I didn’t know how much time it would take.”

“You’ve heard it takes some time except with Power Egg and Super Sperm here. I’m like, ‘Oh my God, can you believe it just happened?’”

Her stage costumes had to be modified to accommodate her growing bump and she wore a well-concealed heart-monitor on stage but despite an active rumour mill about the contents of her womb, she refused to announce her pregnancy in its initial stages: “I was paranoid. There are so many things that could go wrong - somebody could slip, somebody could fall, I could fall. There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.”

“I didn’t want to make the audience uncomfortable, like, ‘Pregnant lady onstage! Is she going to be OK?’ But I had to announce it to my band and my dancers, because I wanted to make sure they had my back.”

“Because I hadn’t said anything, people thought I was trying to keep it this big, bad secret, and that’s not the case at all. I just wasn’t commenting. I’m not being like, ‘Hey, everybody, I’m pregnant!’ I’m not that girl.”