At age 38, Christina Aguilera is still a big kid at heart, thanks to her two children Max and Summer.
“I’m a huge kid at heart, and they give me the opportunity to play and be able to instil and encourage their imaginations,” she tells Haute Living in a new interview.
“The Voice” judge is mom to 11-year-old Max with her first husband Jordan Bratman, and has a daughter, Summer, 5, with fiance Matthew Rutler. The Grammy winner reveals that being mom of two is a constant learning experience.
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“You’re part of these amazing little people’s lives, and it teaches you patience and teaches you things about yourself that you don’t like, that you want to work on. It’s a constant journey of learning. They teach me so much, and they challenge me all the time to be better,” she says.
Motherhood has led the singer to make some different career choices, including stepping back from touring. Her gig as a judge on “The Voice” allows her to stay in Los Angeles and be close to her family.
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“I made the decision for quite some time not to tour for a while because I thought it was the best thing to make a more stable, routine life for my children,” she explains, adding there are no plans to expand her family any time soon.
“Everything I’ve pretty much decided to do has been influenced by [my kids], but at the same time, I need to make sure that I don’t lose myself and that I always stay grounded in what’s important for me,” Aguilera says. “Because that’s part of the example I want to impose on them: to follow your heart and not lose yourself when life changes.”
