We haven’t heard much about Christina Aguilera in months, but she’s back with a new single and is trying to earn some headlines by granting quotable interviews. She’s not my favorite person, but ever since she got married and had an adorable kid she’s not as annoying as I once found her. Aguilera is much like Nicole Richie in that way. Plus she seems to have toned down the bright orange skin, although in most of the recent pictures I’ve seen of her she’s still wearing enough makeup to qualify for a RuPaul reality show.

Anyway Christina is letting us know that she hasn’t lost the thing she’s sold herself on for years, and that she’s still just as sexy as ever. She says that as a mom she’s even sexier because she saw the capabilities of her body. I can buy that she might feel that way, but I know being a mom had the opposite effect on me. I felt like a schlump for years, and I when I finally got back to my “pre-baby” body it wasn’t the same. I still feel attractive, but not like I did before I had a kid. I don’t know why I’m analyzing her throwaway comments. It’s not like she’s earnestly sharing something deep about herself.

Also Christina responded to criticism that she’s “copying” Lady Gaga by saying she just doesn’t pay that much mind. In January, 2009 Aguilera was accused of copying Gaga, to which she responded with a very bitchy comment claiming she didn’t know Gaga and wasn’t sure whether she was a man or a woman. Gaga graciously responded by saying the comparison was flattering and that she should thank Aguilera for giving her press. Now Aguilera is beyond all that, she says, but she’s not above talking about what a sex bomb she is. If you can’t sell yourself as quirky, you may as well go “back to basics”:

“I’m more confident and comfortable in my own skin. I think I’m even a more sexual Christina,” the singer, who wed husband Jordan Bratman four years ago, told the Q100 Bert Show in Atlanta Tuesday morning.

“That’s part of the change of having a child for me — seeing your body do these things you never thought possible,” adds Aguilera, who will release her album, Bionic, on June 8 and kick off a world tour to promote it. “When you have a baby, you go through a period where your body is not your own. It becomes for your child and that’s it. Once you bounce back from that and kind of get your body back… I feel better than ever. It’s a great feeling.”

Aguilera, 29, says she’s a “very sexual person” and she didn’t want to lose that after becoming a mother. Indeed, she and Bratman still have “Naked Sundays.”

“I think it’s important that he sees mommy not be ashamed for her sexuality,” she says. “I mean, he’s two. We’re art collectors, there are a lot of female nudes around the house. Max will be growing up in a house where it’s just the norm… It’s only weird when you shame it….”

Max may not be an only child forever.

When asked if she wants more children, Aguilera says, “I would love that one day, but not right now. Eventually, I would like to give Max a brother or a sister, but right now, Bionic is the baby.”

Aguilera also addressed online criticism that she’s copying Lady Gaga with her new album.

“It just comes with the territory. That, in particular, is not even worth wasting the breath to comment on,” she sniped. “I’ve been around for over a decade and I think my work speaks for myself.”

If she were younger, “I would have engaged, been a little upset,” she says. But now? “There’s a bigger picture out there. I’ve got my son, my family, my work.”

[From US Weekly]

Aguilera has talked about the “naked Sundays” thing for years. I agree that we shouldn’t be ashamed to be naked around our kids, but it sounds so deliberate and calculated the way she explains it. Oooh – they’re naked every Sunday! Just don’t be ashamed when you’re occasionally naked and act like it’s not a big deal and your kid won’t see it as one, either. Compare how Heidi Klum explains nudity as natural vs. Aguilera acting like it’s major but she does it anyway.

Here’s a link to Christina’s new single, “Not Myself Tonight,” off her new album Bionic, which is out in June. It does sound like Gaga, but a lot of music sounds like this lately.