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Christina Aguilera, 44, looks thinner than ever in a red hot bikini while licking a snow cone
Christina Aguilera was showing off her new slimmed-down figure in a sizzling Instagram post from Monday.
The Genie In A Bottle hitmaker wore a cherry red and bright white bikini from the Miami-based swimwear brand Montce Swim.
The 44-year-old superstar looked incredible in their Binded Cabana Bow Bikini Top ($158) and Binded Polly Bikini Bottom in Cherry Cream ($134).
Her long white blonde hair was worn down in soft curls as she added a cap and a generous layer of blood red lipstick. 'Licky licky yum yum,' she wrote in her caption.
She posed in front of the Peaches & Cream ice cream truck in a photo shoot by artist Dennis Leupold.
Aguilera's smaller figure has been in the news for the past few years as she seems to be much tinier these days. The Grammy winner has not responded to rumors she is taking the diabetes drug Ozempic, which has as a side effect weight loss, even though she appears to have shed as much as 50lbs.
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Earlier this year Christina remarked that she no longer feels the need to 'give a f**k' about the public scrutiny on her body.
Speaking about her early years in the music industry, Christina told Glamour magazine that music bosses were unhappy when she gained weight in her 20s - and said they preferred her as a 'skinny teenager.'
'When you're a teenager, you have a very different body than when you're in your 20s,' Christina said in the cover interview. 'I started to fill out, and then that was unacceptable because it was like, "Oh, she's getting thicker."
'Then I had industry people say: "They liked your body and how you were as a skinny teenager."'
She previously said she 'hated being super skinny' and had started embracing and 'loving my new curves,' according to Health.
Christina's career started out when she competed on Star Search, before being selected for The All-New Mickey Mouse Club.
After hanging up her mouse ears in 1996, Christina recorded the theme tune for Disney movie Mulan which helped propel her to fame with her self-titled debut album the following year.
The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, with help from her hit singles Genie in a Bottle and What a Girl Wants.
But the pressure to portray a clean cut look all the time was leaving her burnt out, and determined to reclaim her sexuality and break norms she later carved out a decidedly raunchier brand of pop than her peers.
This comes after Aguilera said she allows her children to borrow her clothes.
The singer - who has Max, 16, with ex-husband Jordan Bratman and Summer, 10, with Matthew Rutler - has revealed that she allows her children to borrow items from her wardrobe.
Christina told PEOPLE: 'It's fun to see how they wear things in different ways than I do, and reinterpret my fashion choices in ways that make it their own.'
Christina's children already have a strong sense of their own style, and the pop star has always encouraged them to 'express their uniqueness'.
She said: 'They both have good personal style and know exactly who they are. I've always raised them to express their uniqueness.'
Christina is ultimately determined to instil good values into her kids.
The 'What a Girl Wants' hitmaker explained: 'Defining beauty for me is about feeling comfortable in your own skin, and that's a message I always try to encourage my kids to instil in themselves.
'No one else can define what beauty means to you. Expressing myself creatively brings me joy and that comes from various styles and looks.'
Meanwhile, Sabrina Carpenter recently heaped praise on Christina, describing the singer as a pop 'icon'.
The blonde beauty was a huge fan of Christina during her younger years, and the 'Candyman' hitmaker inspired Sabrina to pursue a career in the music business.
Sabrina, 25 - who has also enjoyed success as an actress - recently told Paper magazine: 'I love Christina. That was one of my very first idols and icons.
'I was 11 years old and you couldn't get her name out of my mouth. She's very special to me. Those songs raised me.'
A year ago Aguilera said she is 'frustrated' by fame. The pop star has been known around the world since she was in her late teens but almost three decades into her music career has insisted that fame has 'never been the goal' and that she only wants to share 'love and creativity' with her work.
She told Paper magazine: 'I have a really good sense of humor about myself. At the end of the day, I don't take myself and fame so seriously.
'I'm in it for the love and the creativity, and how I can connect and hopefully spread messages.
'But as far as the fame itself, it's never been the goal. That's the most frustrating part for me: having to over give myself when I'm such a private person, especially with this age of social media. Everybody wants something of you.'
