Christina Aguilera knows she’s gained some weight as of late and she ain’t the one losing sleep over it. And to any one who objects, she says, “I’m a fat girl, get over it!”

The singer is quoted online to having told Billboard recently: “During the [2002] promotion of my album Stripped, I got tired of being a skinny, white girl.” Aguilera explained, “I am Ecuadorian but people felt safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.”

“I had gained about 15 pounds during promotion and during my Stripped tour … they called this serious emergency meeting about how there was a lot of backlash.” She adds, “Basically, they told me I would affect a lot of people if I gained weight – the production, musical directors – that I would sell no records or tickets for my shows.”

“I was young, so I lost the weight quickly and was toothpick thin during Back to Basics.”

But now that she’s a bit more mature and feels way more comfortable in her own skin, things have changed. “I told them during [my new album] Lotus, ‘You are working with a fat girl. Know it and get over it.’ They need a reminder sometimes that I don’t belong to them. It’s my body.”

“My body can’t put anyone in jeopardy of not making money. My body is not on the table that way.”

UPDATE: Christina’s rep now says that the comments in this story attributed to her client are false. “The are fake” the rep says.