Christina Aguilera Biography

Christina Aguilera Early Life

Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York to Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera, a U.S. Army sergeant, and Shelly Loraine Fidler, a Spanish teacher. Aguilera's father was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, while her mother, a Newfoundlander, is a Canadian who has German, English, Irish and Dutch ancestry. Aguilera's parents met while her father, Fausto, was serving at Earnest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland, Canada. They were both Catholics. Her parents married when her mother was 20 years old and her father 31. Aguilera lived with her father and mother until she was 6 or 7 years old. When her parents divorced her mother took her and her younger sister Rachel to her grandmother's home in Rochester, Pennsylvania, a blue-collar suburb of Pittsburgh. According to Aguilera and Fidler, her father was very controlling, as well as physically and emotionally abusive, which was reflected in her songs, "I'm OK" in Stripped, and "Oh Mother" in Back to Basics. Since then, Fidler has married a paramedic named Jim Kearns, and has changed her name to Shelly Kearns

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Christina Aguilera News

Christina Aguilera - Why I Filed for Divorce

12/03/2010

Christina Aguilera remembers vividly how she felt as she signed the papers in her divorce from music exec Jordan Bratman.

"Things were so unhealthy and unhappy for both Jordan and me, I knew I had to end it," the Burlesque star, 29, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview. "I really didn't want to hurt Jordan, and I felt torn about splitting our family up."

Christina Aguilera Needs to Find Someone New

11/04/2010

Christina Aguilera is ready to move on from her divorce -- at least that's what she told the audience at a private performance this weekend ... and TMZ has the footage.

It all went down in San Diego last Saturday when Christina took the stage at a badass Halloween party for super rich investor Charles Brandes -- and said, "In light of my current situation, here's to finding new love."

Christina then launched into a pretty awesome rendition of "At ... (read more)