In this day and age, I feel like no one really cares if someone gets knocked up before marriage, or before an engagement. Some people talk a good game about being “old-fashioned” but more and more, I feel like it doesn’t even matter. There’s no judgment, nor should there be. So if you want to wrap up your happy baby news with an engagement announcement, God bless, but all that says is that you care what people think of you and that YOU feel like babies should come with an engagement/ring/marriage. So, you know how Christina Aguilera announced her engagement to Matt Rutler last weekend? Surprise, she’s pregnant.
Another Fighter is on the way! Almost one week after Christina Aguilera announced her Valentine’s Day engagement to boyfriend Matt Rutler on Twitter, multiple sources have exclusively confirmed to Us Weekly that the Grammy winner is pregnant with her second child.
Aguilera, 33, welcomed son Max with now-ex-husband Jordan Bratman in January 2008, and has enjoyed watching her now-6-year-old grow. The “Beautiful” singer took season 4 off from The Voice to spend more time with her family and to focus on her music career. She’s also taking off season 6 of the show, when Shakira will fill the pop diva’s red chair.
The newly-engaged couple and expectant parents have been together for almost three years.
They met on the set of Aguilera’s 2010 film Burlesque.
The seasoned vocalist was previously married to Jordan Bratman from November 2005 to October 2010, and he shares custody of Max.
Congrats to Christina and Matt. I hope everything is happy, healthy and wonderful for them. You know what surprises me? That I didn’t even consider this as a possibility for WHY they got engaged. I wasn’t bringing my A-game to this gossip story, my apologies. So, what do you think about the wedding? Will Christina try to get hitched before she gives birth, or will it be a Jessica Simpson situation where Christina wants to be a skinny bride and she refuses to marry her K-Fed until she gives birth and loses the baby weight? I really don’t know. It could go either way!
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I just assumed something of the sort tbh, that situation was shady from the beginning no reason why all the sudden after two years of blissful goldiggery by Matt, Xtina just up and bought herself a ring?
Matt is following the KFed playbook to the T though, thats for sure.
Better to be Honest cause at least he knows to play his position and not overreach a La Popozao #NeverForget
This is reminding me of the Gabby Union hot mess announcing her happy engagement only for us to find out a week later her man knocked up another woman and there was a secret baby about to be revealed. Celebrities, just be honest say I’m getting married because my bf knocked me up.
I figured we’d be hearing about a pregnancy from her after her engagement. Oh well, congrats to Christina and her man.
congrats!
Congrats to the couple. Christina has pulled her shit together over the years. People shade this dude, but they seem happy and while he may not be ambitious he doesn’t seem like a KFed. I was always kind of amazed that Christina “faded” in terms of her music when people like Katy Perry & Kesha became popular singers because Christina has actual powerhouse vocals. You think she would attract more top-notch producers who want to write her hit songs. I feel like singing isn’t as subjective as acting, they either have strong vocals or they don’t and Christina definitely falls in the former camp….so it’s just weird that’s she’s been left behind.
Mmm Christina is a weird case. She does have a really amazing, powerful voice. But her song choices, and over the top warbling annoys the crap out of me when they come on the radio. She could easily be back to the top like she was about what – 8-10 years ago? – if she picked the same kind of songs that Katy and Kesha are picking. There’s a Lady Gaga song on the radio that I was SURE was Christina the whole time, not just featuring her. I also have a fiance that thinks it’s hilarious when he runs through the house singing “do what you want with my body” in the highest possible pitch he can. So that’s probably some of the annoyance factor right there.
“But her song choices, and over the top warbling annoys the crap out of me when they come on the radio”. Totally agree. That’s why I found her duet with A Great Big World so refreshing. She sounded beautiful! Congrats to XTina!
CA does have a great voice, but her image sucks. I think her problem is that she’s always been too trashy and low rent – she doesn’t have any style and there’s nothing cool about her. Plus her personal life always seems to be a mess with the gross boyfriends and alcohol/drugs and what not. Not to say Katy & Kesha haven’t had their woes too, but there’s not much about Christina that makes her appealing these days.
I think her problem is that in recent years she’s tried to compete with people like Gaga and Katy, but she has the wrong voice and singing style for that type of music. And she chooses bad lead singles, she had some really, really good, interesting songs on Bionic but the lead single was boring and generic and that set the tone.
She’s fantastic when she goes more retro. I’d love to see her do more of this type of thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZFQgqhNoEI
No, the problem was that her diva antics, bitchy behavior and alcohol issues made people not want to work with her anymore. Her head was also way up in the clouds as far as her thinking that she was better than everyone too.
Glad she’s got it back together though. Apparently, she’s starting to be nicer to people and becoming more humble. It’s about time.
One problem is that Christina has a history of waiting too long between albums and tours. Stripped was in 2002 and then Back to Basics wasn’t until 2006. Then Bionic didn’t come until 2010. Another problem is that she doesn’t try hard enough to get the public’s attention. I know that a lot of people look down on celebrity attention-seeking, but I don’t and I think that whether someone is talented or not, if they want that A-list status they need to keep the public looking at them. Christina, even though she’s not reserved about the things she says in interviews, is relatively private by celebrity standards and doesn’t spend enough time getting the public to notice her. Maybe she’s come to value privacy more over the years, which is fine, but it will do nothing for her career.
Plus, Bionic sucked. She tried too hard to be edgy and futuristic with that album (even though I liked the video for Not Myself Tonight) and there were too many songs on the album where she didn’t even sound like herself. There were like 23 songs on that album and the only ones I liked were Not myself tonight, Woohoo, (with Nicki Minaj) Sex for Breakfast, Lift me up, Desnudate, and You Lost Me. She also didn’t promote the album enough.
Lotus was a decent album, even though it wasn’t her best work. Your Body should not have been her debut single. It should have been Let there be love. That would have been more successful. The songs that she should have had music videos and been singles, weren’t. And she completely gave up on Lotus when it wasn’t as successful as she wanted it to be. Rihanna and Katy Perry, who are WAY less talented, are more successful because they work harder for their A-list status.
She’s always tried to take on new personas with her albums – Xtina with Stripped, pinup girl happy wife with Back to Basics, Lady Gaga Lite for Bionic, and then with Lotus she tried to go all edgy and sexy. Its gotten to the point where her personas feel very ‘put on’ and I think that really was a barrier to her work connecting with the public. And while she’s phenominally talented, she’s not necessarily the easiest to work with.
Good for her! 🙂
I have an irrational dislike for heavily pregnant brides. It feels too shotgun-esque for me. So superficially I hope she waits until after having the baby before getting hitched.
Also I have heard that being pregnant can be super tiring, standing up for long periods can be hard etc. And your wedding day is pretty intense (unless you skip the three hours of photos etc). Just trying to back up my opinion with unsubstantiated facts. 🙂
I had a dream last night that I was like 8 or 9 months pregnant and getting married. Freaked me right out.
Pregnancy, especially in the first and later third trimester, is exhausting. That said, everyone is different and each pregnancy is different. I wouldn’t want to get married pregnant (too much champagne to miss out on) but to each their own.
I say, if she goes full princess wedding then it will be a year or two after the birth, but if they go small then it’ll be before the baby. However, if they were going to do a small pre-baby wedding I think they would’ve just done that rather than announce an engagement and all that.
On a side note, I don’t understand celebrities who go full princess wedding for their second and even third marriages. I would feel ridiculous doing that.
I think it’s better for her to wait and have her baby, lose the weight and then get married. Her wedding picture will look cuter. Most women don’t want to get married heavily pregnant do they? Just saying.
Well at least it’s not a OOPS baby, as in they’ve only been dating for like three months and she’s pregnant.
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One thing that I don’t understand is the people who have kids with somebody, but don’t want to marry them. And I’m not talking about the people who don’t believe in marriage. Like with Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Douchic (yes, I did that on purpose). I saw an interview a LONG time ago (or it might’ve been on their show one one of the few times I caught a couple of minutes of it), where she said that she didn’t want to marry Scott–implying that she did want to get married one day, but not to Scott.
Even if I didn’t believe in marriage, I would not be having kids with someone who I couldn’t say that I would marry them, if I believed in it.
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And hahaha…one of my cousins is SO bougie. She’s shading my sister and her sisters about having kids without a husband…..guess who got pregnant three months into the relationship and had a shotgun wedding, and THEN tried to say that her kids (she had twins) were going to be preemies??? FYI, her babies were like nine pounds…haha.
Gotta love your stuck up relatives.
Christina never seems interested in parenting the kid she has. Rarely photographed with him. She seems to want her freedom more than anything, so wondering if this wasn’t planned.
it’s not because she rarely is photographed with her kid,she doesn’t care about/doesn’t love her kid
Just because someone gets papped with their kids doesn’t mean they’re the more attentive parent. It just means they’re calling the papps (ahem Jessica Alba) to photograph them together.
Not being photographed with her kid does not mean she does not parent her kid. It could just mean she doesn’t want him exposed to the paparazzi. Obviously I have no idea what her private life is like. But I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that because a celeb is not photographed with the child constantly, that that are un-involved with the child.
I don’t think paps equal good parenting. However, she is frequently papped with her fiancé and socializing. So if she isn’t calling the paps to photograph them during their outings, then they would also catch her with her kid.
I actually think that shows she’s NOT selfish when it comes to her son. Not getting papped with a child all the time shows better parenting that some (ahem to Jessica Alba again)
I just feel like with people like Jennifer Garner or the Jolie-Pitts, you get a sense of love and family and investment there, and I am not into any particular celebrity. Like Gwen Stefani is always with her kids, active and engaged, and seems to really love being a parent. I don’t get that sense from Christina. But who knows?
If I remeber right Christina Ex has majority of the custody of Max. That why she not pictured with him much.
@ jennifer12
I agree and yes Gwen is always with her kids but so is a nanny doing a lot of the work even before she got pregnant and I’m not say she never plays with them.
Where do you get that idea? Google: “Christina and Max” and countless images of her with her son pop up. Bet there’s even more if you add the “Aguilera.”
Somewhere out there, KFed is giving imaginary daps to Matt Rutler.
I must be off my gossip game, too. This never even entered my mind.
Congrats to them! If he’s KFed-ing her, meh. She has the money to support them both. They seem happy.
I don’t know why some gossip sites make it seems like this was unplanned hence a quick engagement announcement, but I feel like this was planned… Christina probably wanted another child, stopped drinking and started exercising to get fit/ready for pregnancy (losing lotta weight along the way) and voila. Good for her!
Am I the only one that was sad that she and Jordan Bratman couldn’t seem to make it work? (Maybe that’s just my own love of cute Jewish boys talking.) I really liked them together. It seemed like maybe he called her on her BS or something. He definitely seemed to keep her grounded. Anywho, wishing Christina and her new man the best.
I liked them together too. She seemed happy with him. I was shocked when they got divorced bc they seemed so lovey-dovey.
Congrats to her. Her man is not a bad-looking guy, their child will be a cutie.
“There’s no judgment, nor should there be.”
Unfortunately, there’s a lot of judgment. On the other sites covering this story (E, People, Us) there are actually a lot of people slut-shaming her for this and saying some vile, misogynistic crap, even saying that she’s a bad role model and that unmarried underage girls will think it’s ok to get pregnant.
I think it’s ok if she personally feels that having a baby should come with them getting married, but I hope that they were considering marriage anyway and this isn’t JUST because she’s pregnant. I’ve heard that Matt worked on the design for the ring for over a year (if that’s true), and I’ve also heard that she’s been wanting another baby. I wish her a safe pregnancy, a healthy baby, and I hope the relationship works out. I also hope it’s a girl.
She doesn’t have the best taste in men, none of her men are lookers and they seem to do nothing but follow her around but if it makes her happy good for her. Congrats!
I thought Jordan Bratman was/is a very successful music producer?
Congrats. I never thought that this relationship would become so serious…
I see her on husband number three in five years.
She’s marrying that guy? Well, I guess you could say they’ve been through a lot together…
You should consider yourselves extremely lucky to live in America, where single parents are widely accepted by a more liberated and open minded society. If I got pregnant, my parents will freak out and my dad (while pointing a gun at my bf’s head) will probably push me and my boyfriend to get married before the end of my first trimester, because he wants to protect his daughter’s reputation and prevent his grandchild from being “illegitimate”. Yup, he’s that old fashioned. LOL.